The strange thing is, multiple authors who noticed their rankings getting stripped as far back as late February were told that this is in fact Amazon policy.

It may just be a case of a handful of Amazon employees stepping over their bounds and really messing things up, or a possible problem with a ranking system setting flags that is apparently trollable (theory outlined here). If this is the case it will certainly impact the design of user feedback systems in the future.

It’s tough for me to believe that a major player like Amazon would have cleared the stripping of gay literature’s sales rankings – They’re there to make money, not statements.

It’s just to dumb to be sanctioned by the company – likely it was an employee who did it w/o clearance claiming to be inside the guidelines of things to remove.

Sucks it happened, people had the right to complain about it and point it out, and demand it be fixed, but they’re calling boycott now, and despite the fact that the boycott will fail, it’s probably not really justified.

After having Lasik and believing that everything is alright, I am haunted by vision of people I know dying in strange and horrible ways. This is disconcerting enough until they actually start dying in the ways that I have foreseen. All of this might make life more interesting until I looked in the mirror this morning… now I am afraid to close my eyes. Fearing that I might never open them again.

Okay that’s all a lie (except the Lasik part). I can’t top yours.