is there a special word for people who take strong moral stances only when it becomes memetically popular to do so on the Internet? besides "sheeple."
How is beign gay an adult issue????
Wtf is wrong with amazon.
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I started reading WWZ yesterday, 20 pages in and I want a movie
Thread hijack. This thread is now about what you have just bought from Amazon.com
World War Z and Zombie Survival Guide are on their way to my house because I didn't own them yet.
thanks guys, you pushed me into ordering WWZ and tacitly oppressing the gay community
I found this while looking:
http://www.amazon.com/Pride-Prejudice-Zombies-Classic-Ultraviolent/dp/1594743347/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239644484&sr=8-1
wtf :lol
God Bloodwake, freakin mooch.
"Mail me Smallville S2 plz"
"Let me borrow World War Z plz"
"Come on man, it's just a handjob!"
Where will it end? WHERE?
In other news, the Sex story repository, ASSTR.org has a way to search through sex stories based on key word classifications. It has an 'include' field and an 'exclude' field. Up until recently, you could 'include' gay but you couldn't 'exclude' it. I always thought they just didn't want to upset the gay community, but it really sucked if you weren't gaborn or demi trying to read stories.
I need World War Z.
and what's that book by that Spanish author...2226 or something?
I need World War Z.
and what's that book by that Spanish author...2226 or something?
2666, Roberto Bolano. Awesome writer, but I haven't read that yet.
I still have a book of his I need to send to Ghengis
All that humping is only adult content if its gay, I dont know no rules about a girl on hippo.
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Amazon removed its customer-based reporting of adult books yesterday. I guess my game is up! Here's a nice piece I like to call "how to cause moral outrage from the entire Internet in ten lines of code".
I really hate reputation systems based on user input. This started a while back on Craigslist, when I was trying to score chicks to do heroin with. My listings like "looking to get tarred and pleasured" and "Searching for a heroine to do the paronym of this sentence's lexical subject" kept getting flagged. The hypocracy of the gay community disgusted me. They would flag my ads down but searching craigslist for "pnp" or "tina" reveals tons of hairy dudes searching for other hairy dudes to do meth with. How is homosexuality and meth okay but heterosexuality and heroin bad? So I decided to get them back and cause a few hundred thousand queers some outrage.
I'm logged into Amazon at a far later date and see it has a "report as inappropriate" feature at the bottom of a page. I do a quick test on a few sets of gay books. I see that I can get them removed from search rankings with an insignificant number of votes.
I do this for a while, but never really get off my ass to scale it until recently.
So I script some quick bash.
#!/bin/bash
let count = 1
while true; do
links -dump 'http://www.amazon.com/s/qid=0/?ie=ASCII&rs=1000&keywords=Gay_and_Lesbian&rh=n%3A!1000%2Ci%3Astripbooks%2Ck%3AHomosexuality&page='`echo $count`|grep \/dp\/ >> /tmp/amazon
((count++))
done
There's some quick code to grab all the Gay and Lesbian metadata-tagged books on amazon. Then I pull out all the IDs of the given books from those URLs:
cat /tmp/amazon |sed s/.*dp\\/// |sed s/\\/ref.*//
and I have a neat little list of the internal product ID of every cigarillo book on Amazon.
Now from here it was a matter of getting a lot of people to vote for the books. The thing about the adult reporting function of Amazon was that it was vulnerable to something called "Cross-site request forgery'. This means if I referred someone to the URL of the successful complaint, it would register as a complaint if they were logged in. So now it is a numbers game.
I know some people who run some extremely high traffic (Alexa top 1000) websites. I show them my idea, and we all agree that it is pretty funny. They put an invisible iframe in their websites to refer people to the complaint URLs which caused huge numbers of visitors to report gay and lesbian items as inappropriate without their knowledge.
I also hired third worlders to register accounts for me en masse. If you ever need a service like that, you can find them in a post like this advertising in the comments:
http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070427/solving-captchas-for-cash/
Then they would log into the accounts, save the cookies in a cookie file and send it to me.
Then I used the cookie files like so to automated-report all the books:
for i in `cat /tmp/amazon |sed s/.*dp\\/// |sed s/\\/ref.*//`; do lynx -cookie_file=/home/avex/cookie1 http://www.amazon.com/ri/product-listing/`echo $i`/;done
The combination of these two actions resulted in a mass delisting of queer books being delisted from the rankings at Amazon.
I guess my game is up, but 300+ hits on google news for amazon gay
and outrage across the blogosphere
ain't so bad.
The only person to figure it out was dely from Six Apart: http://tehdely.livejournal.com/88823.html
but he has been ground zero at my work, cleaning up my messes before. Who else trolls via moral outrage? Not many in the scene that I know of.
no
that's real and pre-release is so successful that the publisher is preparing more literary mash ups
so, "fuck you" internet.
The Seattle PI is reporting it was the work of hackers, but who knows at this point.
I see what you did there!
I hate the Seattle Times.
http://blog.seattlepi.com/amazon/archives/166329.asp
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lulz ruin everything
In other news, the Sex story repository, ASSTR.org has a way to search through sex stories based on key word classifications. It has an 'include' field and an 'exclude' field. Up until recently, you could 'include' gay but you couldn't 'exclude' it. I always thought they just didn't want to upset the gay community, but it really sucked if you weren't gaborn or demi trying to read stories.
The most amazing website I have ever visited.
is there a special word for people who take strong moral stances only when it becomes memetically popular to do so on the Internet? besides "sheeple."
Thread hijack. This thread is now about what you have just bought from Amazon.com
World War Z and Zombie Survival Guide are on their way to my house because I didn't own them yet.
Aren't you in college?
Aren't you in college?
Yesh. :S
but I like fat goth chicks :(I like skinny goth chicks.
but I like fat goth chicks :(I like skinny goth chicks.
I like my girls like I like my pancakes. :tophat
but I like fat goth chicks :(I like skinny goth chicks.
I like my girls like I like my pancakes. :tophat
in stacks of three, covered in syrup? with bacon on the side?
but I like fat goth chicks :(I like skinny goth chicks.
I like my girls like I like my pancakes. :tophat
in stacks of three, covered in syrup? with bacon on the side?
Hey baby