Comments on: Amazon coder: “someone internally” tagged thousands of titles “adult” http://melissagira.com/sexerati/2009/04/13/amazon-coder-someone-internally-tagged-thousands-of-titles-adult/ Sex & the internet, by Melissa Gira Grant Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:33:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: PB http://melissagira.com/sexerati/2009/04/13/amazon-coder-someone-internally-tagged-thousands-of-titles-adult/#comment-1273 PB Wed, 27 May 2009 06:37:25 +0000 http://melissagira.com/sexerati/?p=626#comment-1273 [...] UPDATE 10: The metadata theory promulgated by Dear Author seems to me the most reasonable explanation (and Jane now has spreadsheets up of the books with metadata categories). See also Scrivener’s Error and this theory from an inside coder. [...] [...] UPDATE 10: The metadata theory promulgated by Dear Author seems to me the most reasonable explanation (and Jane now has spreadsheets up of the books with metadata categories). See also Scrivener’s Error and this theory from an inside coder. [...]

]]> By: Common roles in online customer protests (with examples from AmazonFail) http://melissagira.com/sexerati/2009/04/13/amazon-coder-someone-internally-tagged-thousands-of-titles-adult/#comment-1232 Common roles in online customer protests (with examples from AmazonFail) Sun, 19 Apr 2009 04:33:27 +0000 http://melissagira.com/sexerati/?p=626#comment-1232 [...] Here’s a post by a person familiar with Amazon’s architecture, and another post and another from persons who cite conversations with Amazon [...] [...] Here’s a post by a person familiar with Amazon’s architecture, and another post and another from persons who cite conversations with Amazon [...]

]]> By: Stephan http://melissagira.com/sexerati/2009/04/13/amazon-coder-someone-internally-tagged-thousands-of-titles-adult/#comment-1227 Stephan Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:10:25 +0000 http://melissagira.com/sexerati/?p=626#comment-1227 The defence of it wasn't a person per se, it was a computer error fails to hold water as someone had to tell the computer to actually do it. What it is, is a way to pass blame without having to be specific. Computers do not make errors, inputters, coders and users make them and the computer just repeats and compounds those errors... It appears the 'glitch' has not effected amazon.co.uk yet. The defence of it wasn’t a person per se, it was a computer error fails to hold water as someone had to tell the computer to actually do it. What it is, is a way to pass blame without having to be specific. Computers do not make errors, inputters, coders and users make them and the computer just repeats and compounds those errors…

It appears the ‘glitch’ has not effected amazon.co.uk yet.

]]> By: Amazon claims glitch affected search & ranking; consumers say #glitchmyass http://melissagira.com/sexerati/2009/04/13/amazon-coder-someone-internally-tagged-thousands-of-titles-adult/#comment-1226 Amazon claims glitch affected search & ranking; consumers say #glitchmyass Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:18:06 +0000 http://melissagira.com/sexerati/?p=626#comment-1226 [...] response to a hacker claiming responsibility for the delisting of books, anonymous coders at amazon have come out and said the problem is internal though a human-mediated internal problem as opposed to the glitch claimed by amazon. It seems that [...] [...] response to a hacker claiming responsibility for the delisting of books, anonymous coders at amazon have come out and said the problem is internal though a human-mediated internal problem as opposed to the glitch claimed by amazon. It seems that [...]

]]> By: WildlyParenthetical http://melissagira.com/sexerati/2009/04/13/amazon-coder-someone-internally-tagged-thousands-of-titles-adult/#comment-1224 WildlyParenthetical Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:53:25 +0000 http://melissagira.com/sexerati/?p=626#comment-1224 http://mikedaisey.com/ Maybe not some French person after all... http://mikedaisey.com/ Maybe not some French person after all…

]]> By: debauchette | amazon. and pornocracy. http://melissagira.com/sexerati/2009/04/13/amazon-coder-someone-internally-tagged-thousands-of-titles-adult/#comment-1223 debauchette | amazon. and pornocracy. Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:41:13 +0000 http://melissagira.com/sexerati/?p=626#comment-1223 [...] think Amazon’s been hacked; I’d like that to be true, but it’s unlikely.  Since its representatives are responding and taking ownership of the situation (apart from the [...] [...] think Amazon’s been hacked; I’d like that to be true, but it’s unlikely.  Since its representatives are responding and taking ownership of the situation (apart from the [...]

]]> By: Amazonfail: A Call to Boycott Amazon : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits http://melissagira.com/sexerati/2009/04/13/amazon-coder-someone-internally-tagged-thousands-of-titles-adult/#comment-1222 Amazonfail: A Call to Boycott Amazon : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:11:17 +0000 http://melissagira.com/sexerati/?p=626#comment-1222 [...] UPDATE 10: The metadata theory promulgated by Dear Author seems to me the most reasonable explanation (and Jane now has spreadsheets up of the books with metadata categories). See also Scrivener’s Error and this theory from an inside coder. [...] [...] UPDATE 10: The metadata theory promulgated by Dear Author seems to me the most reasonable explanation (and Jane now has spreadsheets up of the books with metadata categories). See also Scrivener’s Error and this theory from an inside coder. [...]

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