Comments on: Amazon's "Gay Glitch" and the Pagans http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2009/04/amazons-gay-glitch-and-the-pagans.html A modern Pagan perspective Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Amanda Sioux Blake http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2009/04/amazons-gay-glitch-and-the-pagans.html#comment-17846 Amanda Sioux Blake Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:36:28 +0000 http://patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/?p=2756#comment-17846 Not anymore, now that I know about this! Seriously, Amazon has lost me forever, and I intend to send them an email telling them so. Not anymore, now that I know about this! Seriously, Amazon has lost me forever, and I intend to send them an email telling them so.

]]> By: Erynn http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2009/04/amazons-gay-glitch-and-the-pagans.html#comment-17866 Erynn Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:55:47 +0000 http://patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/?p=2756#comment-17866 There are a lot of places online for buying used or discounted books, particularly if you go for remainders. ABE.com is one place that collates global sources for used books. Nobody has to use Amazon. There are a lot of places online for buying used or discounted books, particularly if you go for remainders. ABE.com is one place that collates global sources for used books. Nobody has to use Amazon.

]]> By: Matt http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2009/04/amazons-gay-glitch-and-the-pagans.html#comment-17868 Matt Thu, 16 Apr 2009 06:00:06 +0000 http://patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/?p=2756#comment-17868 I typically don't buy at my local Pagan Book Store because they're a bit far (50 miles away) and Amazon offers a lot of books at a considerable discount or used. While you might see it as an issue of supporting local business and loyalty...consumers see it as convenience and cost. That and by buying online, you don't have to get up out of your arm chair. :) I typically don't buy at my local Pagan Book Store because they're a bit far (50 miles away) and Amazon offers a lot of books at a considerable discount or used. While you might see it as an issue of supporting local business and loyalty…consumers see it as convenience and cost.

That and by buying online, you don't have to get up out of your arm chair. :)

]]> By: whatsername http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2009/04/amazons-gay-glitch-and-the-pagans.html#comment-17849 whatsername Wed, 15 Apr 2009 07:18:42 +0000 http://patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/?p=2756#comment-17849 I don't know why it did that but here you are: <a href="http://www.feministing.com/archives/014797.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.feministing.com/archives/014797.html</a> As for it being malicious or not, the proof is in what was censored for me. Non-fiction like "She's Not the Man I Married" - sales rank taken, but outright porn that's heterosexual (like Playboy) - left alone. Looks specific and malicious to me. I don't know why it did that but here you are: http://www.feministing.com/archives/014797.html

As for it being malicious or not, the proof is in what was censored for me. Non-fiction like "She's Not the Man I Married" – sales rank taken, but outright porn that's heterosexual (like Playboy) – left alone. Looks specific and malicious to me.

]]> By: AmericanTrikstr http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2009/04/amazons-gay-glitch-and-the-pagans.html#comment-17848 AmericanTrikstr Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:31:47 +0000 http://patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/?p=2756#comment-17848 Well, first off, the link you provided isn't working. Secondly, while I said there was a possibility of it being a "bug" or "glitch", it was only one of several possibilites and it apparently was not a glitch but a poor execution of a filtering process. The word "glitch" only came up because it came out of a PR spokesman's mouth and, quite frankly, PR doesn't know what they're talking about when it comes to technology. "Glitch" or "bug" is often used by PR to describe any sort of computer or technology issue. They use it as a general term when it really shouldn't be. Amazon messed up, but there's nothing malicious about it. Well, first off, the link you provided isn't working.

Secondly, while I said there was a possibility of it being a "bug" or "glitch", it was only one of several possibilites and it apparently was not a glitch but a poor execution of a filtering process. The word "glitch" only came up because it came out of a PR spokesman's mouth and, quite frankly, PR doesn't know what they're talking about when it comes to technology. "Glitch" or "bug" is often used by PR to describe any sort of computer or technology issue. They use it as a general term when it really shouldn't be.

Amazon messed up, but there's nothing malicious about it.

]]> By: whatsername http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2009/04/amazons-gay-glitch-and-the-pagans.html#comment-17862 whatsername Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:48:18 +0000 http://patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/?p=2756#comment-17862 In addition Jessica Valenti's <a href="http://www.feministing.com/archives/014797.html" rel="nofollow">editor already confirmed the information</a>, that it was NOT a glitch, unless you think whoever they talked to is just making stuff up because they don't know anything too. In addition Jessica Valenti's editor already confirmed the information, that it was NOT a glitch, unless you think whoever they talked to is just making stuff up because they don't know anything too.

]]> By: whatsername http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2009/04/amazons-gay-glitch-and-the-pagans.html#comment-17863 whatsername Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:48:18 +0000 http://patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/?p=2756#comment-17863 In addition Jessica Valenti's <a href="http://www.feministing.com/archives/014797.html" rel="nofollow">editor already confirmed the information</a>, that it was NOT a glitch, unless you think whoever they talked to is just making stuff up because they don't know anything too. In addition Jessica Valenti's editor already confirmed the information, that it was NOT a glitch, unless you think whoever they talked to is just making stuff up because they don't know anything too.

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