It’s much more disturbing than Oranges, and I’d much sooner give Oranges to a kid to read than Perdido.
And I’m astonished that anyone could have missed the sarcasm in what I said earlier. My hopefully last word on the subject will be to school Starving Artist:
“Horrifying” can be used for things that truly engender a feeling of deep horror, absolutely. But it also has a mildly humorous use in sentences such as:
“At the last minute, I tried adding a bit of grapefruit juice to the vanilla pudding. The result, if I do say so myself, was horrifying.”
“His table manners are horrifying.”
“Lucy was wearing some sort of horrifying combination of paisley and stripes.”
It can also be used in an eyebrow raising way:
“It’s a little horrifying that you think it’s okay to insult Jews in front of me just because I’m not Jewish.”
“I find it horrifying that people are so blase about dishonesty in modern politics.”
“If it’s true that Amazon is delisting LGBT books, that’s horrifying.”
My use was absolutely conventional and in line with one of the word’s common usages. Picking on this, when you ignore words like “goddammit,” is idiotic. (Note that by idiotic I am not making the claim that you suffer from severe mental retardation; rather, I’m using a bit of hyperbole so common that it’s scarcely noticeable except to partisans who want to disguise their partisanship behind ridiculous pedantry).
Who’s “everyone”? I’ve seen a variety of theories, from hacker to troll to poor programming on Amazon’s part, to someone at Amazon taking it upon themselves to change the page ranks, to crazy anti-gay activist group abusing the complaint system. The last two are in the minority. Mostly, I’ve seen people go with the poor complaint system theory.
While the major bulk of things happened this weekend, there were reports of derankings as far back as Decemeber, explained by customer service as ‘adult’ related and not a glitch.
Seems like Amazon keeps changing the story about what happened, what they say doesn’t match what people are reporting, and they’ve failed to fix even the most obvious and grievous stuff like the homosexuality search resulting primarily in anti gay books.
I’m supposed to prove a negative? Read the thread, then post your evidence that they have comprehensively addressed the issue, why it happened, and fixed it.
It’s been about 2.5 months now since this became a big issue (and about 5 months since it was first reported happening). Has Amazon ever given a real answer as to what happened, and how it happened?
You made a claim. You’re supposed to provide support it if you want people to believe you, whether it was positive or negative. Your opponent could be seen as putting forth a counter-claim, but needs not provide evidence unless the claim itself has support.
No, I asked a question: “Has Amazon tried?” Now, why does that put the burden of proof on me? The claim, made by cricetus, was, “Nothing can placate that mob.” I asked HIM to prove HIS claim. Try reading for comprehension please.
