Still, Amazon's claiming it was purposeful and then a glitch is major fail. I'd like to see a statement along the lines of, "This is wrong and we are doing our best to fix it," not, "This is what you should expect, it just got tweaked a bit wrong."
And I still don't like the "making books less searchable" for any reason.
This is true. I think that a lot of places are now finding out that having a bit of "open source" rating and tagging by the general public is an idea that needs a lot of thought. Strikethrough, and the Adult Content flagging are two places were LJ has learned a hard lesson about this, and some other places have also been nailed this way.
While I think that the idea has some merit - democratizing the rating and categorization of massive amounts of media, the technology is way too easily abused for it to be truly practical.
One of the comments I've seen, related to this, is that Amazon shouldn't simply drop anything flagged as "adult" from its searches. Google allows people to set the degree of content filtering, so I can choose how much I'll be exposed to different types of content. Amazon should be allowing its customers the same option. It's still not a perfect solution, because someone looking for Why Heather Has Two Mommies may very well choose to have "adult content" filtered out, but it would make it much less appealing to
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Still, Amazon's claiming it was purposeful and then a glitch is major fail. I'd like to see a statement along the lines of, "This is wrong and we are doing our best to fix it," not, "This is what you should expect, it just got tweaked a bit wrong."
And I still don't like the "making books less searchable" for any reason.
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While I think that the idea has some merit - democratizing the rating and categorization of massive amounts of media, the technology is way too easily abused for it to be truly practical.
One of the comments I've seen, related to this, is that Amazon shouldn't simply drop anything flagged as "adult" from its searches. Google allows people to set the degree of content filtering, so I can choose how much I'll be exposed to different types of content. Amazon should be allowing its customers the same option. It's still not a perfect solution, because someone looking for Why Heather Has Two Mommies may very well choose to have "adult content" filtered out, but it would make it much less appealing to ( ... )
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