Epilogue

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Today I wrote Amazon a note telling them I was pleased to see they “responded so quickly to consumer concerns” blah blah blah etc. and noting that I won’t stop doing business with them now that I know it was an inattentive blunder and not a move by the Evil League of Evil. (There was a bit of “What did we learn, Amazon?” in there, but they deserve that.) I feel that positive reinforcement is always a good thing.

Plus, I have been accused of malicious intent before when a basic lack of attention was to blame, and the sting of not being believed has stuck with me for years. They’ve certainly learned to pay more attention to their codes in the future. That’s pretty much all I can hope for.

Comments

[wendyzski.livejournal.com]

I told them yay for fixing the coding error which dumped a lot of things into "adult" that didn't belong there, but Boo for having an "adult" category in the first place. If you are going to do that (and you can because it's your site) plz to be clearly explaining what, how, where and why to your users kthxbye.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that got mentioned. I am actually fine with something that doesn't bring up objectionable content when I'm looing for innocent stuff, but I am quite aware that my idea of objectionable content isn't everyone's, and I also do want to know what's up when you DO want to find a possibly objectionable book.

However, as for this here "glitch"? I will give them the benefit of the doubt on that.

[queenlyzard.livejournal.com]

Still not sure I believe that's exactly what happened. After all-- wouldn't the same thing have happened to all the hard-core porn stuff? My personal theory is that they got hacked but don't want to admit it.