Social Community Up In Arms Over Amazon Glitch

Policy change, personal agenda or a computer glitch? Over the weekend there has been much speculation over why gay and lesbian content previously being listed in the both the best seller and search algorithms would suddenly become blacklisted? Pushing aside everyone’s personal thoughts and opinions on the matter, there remains the questions as to the actual root cause of the change. According to this article, it is allegedly a matter of human error.

Yes, that is right, the great “Amazon Fail” as it is being called, is said to merely a matter of one Amazon employee mislabeling gay and lesbian content as “adult” in nature. As for whether or not this is what actually happened, this not for me to say. But based on my own experiences with working with databases, I can see the rational of how something like this might have happened when one is not paying close attention.

via Social Community Up In Arms Over Amazon Glitch ~ Web Developers.