remember StrikeThrough?

[rm]

This is Amazon's blog: http://tinyurl.com/38rx2y

LJ'ers, you know what to do!

(heads-up from vashtan).

Comments

[upstart-crow.livejournal.com]

Updating my post! :) Thanks RM, and vashtan!

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

put it on the #amazonfail twitter thing, and thousand will be there within the hour

[rm.livejournal.com]

Already done

[hakeber.livejournal.com]

Oh yes I do remember. Time to take them down.

[msp-hacker.livejournal.com]

I was just making some nice lolcatz as well...

[perlandria.livejournal.com]

Doing it, but also stripping my wish lists so no hapless friends and relatives can gift me and give Amazon business.
Don't know if Amazon would notice if a bunch of wish lists went missing?

[airspaniel.livejournal.com]

Somehow I don't think writing porn for this one will do much good. ^_~

Thanks for the heads, though. The mission is clear.

[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

Also:

googlebomb: http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/amazonrank/

[perlandria.livejournal.com]

oh! you mean putting the words Amazon Rank (http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/amazonrank/) as a link to click through to the page http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/amazonrank/.
Yes :D

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

Oh, they will!

[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

Yes. :D

[demotu.livejournal.com]

Hm. I tried to leave a comment, but the real name authentication thing told me there was an "error they were working to resolve".

*makes suspicious face*

[woogledesigns.livejournal.com]

I don't remember strike through- what do I do?

[airspaniel.livejournal.com]

Protest. Comment. Comment like the wind! Sooner or later it all becomes spam of cat macros, but even that is glorious, for it conveys our discontent through the medium of lulz.

[woogledesigns.livejournal.com]

If I were gay I'd so have that icon as a wallpaper.

[sushis.livejournal.com]

In case you're getting emails at the moment, but not checking Twitter: it appears that the CTO of amazon is on twitter: @werner

[anterastilis.livejournal.com]

I've tried several times and keep getting error messages. >:(

Well, here's what I've been trying to post...

I do not support Amazon.com's decision to de-rank LGBTQ materials. I am a librarian and I do collection development for a large regional library system, and I have bought many books from Amazon.com. I won't do business with companies that discriminate, so I'm going to stop shopping at Amazon.com and encourage my colleages and friends to do so as well.

[perlandria.livejournal.com]

Since it isn't anywhere near when people would buy for me, I was also considering Wishing for every single one of the scrubbed books.
After all, top wishes are a ranking... :D

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

Thomas O. Ryder (914) 244-5782
William Gordon (650) 233-2750
Myrtle Potter (650) 225-1000
Alain Monie (206) 266-1000
L. John Doerr (650) 233-2750
Tom Alberg (206) 674-3000
Patricia Stonesifer (206) 709-3140

Those are the Board of Directors. May they suddenly find themselves very.... popular.

[perlandria.livejournal.com]

eeeenteresting.
The page loads, and then bounces me out to a log in screen. Simple effective way to make sure you know who is saying what, and reading what.

[nekosensei.livejournal.com]

Done!

[worldof-wonders.livejournal.com]

It will only let me post with my 'real name' from my credit card which, due to a series of whacky events, is not in fact my 'real name.' I couldn't post.

[hllangel]

I'm hosting a GLBTQ Porn Battle to go against Amazon Fail. Spread the word!

[dawn-guy.livejournal.com]

Their latest "family friendly" entry seems like a more visible place than the 'terminator game' where it looks like most of the StrikeThrough comments are going.

[weirdquark]

Have you seen the theory that this was caused by trolls who like to see the internet explode? If it's true, it doesn't make it not a problem, but it would be a different kind of problem.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Yes.

The theory is problematic because it doesn't account for the fact that the tags that Amazon's action was based on are not user controlled. Additionally, this had been happening gradually over at least two months and it finally just hit the right people with the right voices and social networks.

Regardless, even if it was troll-based. Amazon still fucked up, by bowing to pressure, however fictive.