Re: WARNING: UNVERIFIEDkali921April 13 2009, 16:32:24 UTC
I'm not sure how one person could possibly cause Amazon to make such an idiotic decision unless he spammed Amazon with a thousand e-mails complaining about their rankings. Unless a million sock puppet e-mails were involved.
WARNING: I would NOT click on any of that guy's links. There might be malware involved.
Re: WARNING: UNVERIFIEDsyringavulgarisApril 13 2009, 16:46:38 UTC
Well, that's what his post indicates; he got friends with high-traffic web sites to, effectively, catch referring traffic from all their visitors and using that session info to generate bogus complaints.
Programmatically, it looks like it would work (if that's how Amazon's complaint system in fact works). Or it could be some idjit trying to cash in with a plausible-sounding explanation, but the usual idjit doesn't bother with posting working code.
Re: WARNING: UNVERIFIEDdj_spiderApril 13 2009, 17:10:31 UTC
If they had a hole in their system, then it only takes one idjit to find it and prove a point.
My feeling from the start was that it was something tied to the tagging that they do, and a lot of books were caught in the crossfire, perhaps that they had to remove everything that was tagged with "so-and-so" and didn't realize what a massive purge it was, and didn't have the manpower to actually review each title to see the connection.
It looks plausible, but I have no knowledge whatsoever as to the veracity of the poster's claim or purported method.
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WARNING: I would NOT click on any of that guy's links. There might be malware involved.
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Programmatically, it looks like it would work (if that's how Amazon's complaint system in fact works). Or it could be some idjit trying to cash in with a plausible-sounding explanation, but the usual idjit doesn't bother with posting working code.
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My feeling from the start was that it was something tied to the tagging that they do, and a lot of books were caught in the crossfire, perhaps that they had to remove everything that was tagged with "so-and-so" and didn't realize what a massive purge it was, and didn't have the manpower to actually review each title to see the connection.
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