Eating My Words - Thanks "Weev!"

So it goes...Amazon has been right...sort of...this big brouhaha about gay and erotic books losing their sales ranks was either/or:

1. The doing of the (by now) infamous Internet "troll" calling himself "Weev." This is a link to his Monday Live Journal blog posting, written by him or someone claiming to be him.

Short quote:

"Here's a nice piece I like to call 'how to cause moral outrage from the entire Internet in ten lines of code.'"

2. Not to be outdone, Mike Daisey, a theatrical monologuist and author of 21 Dog Years about working at Amazon, says the Sales Rank yank was the result of a French employee of Amazon confusing the codes for "adult," "erotic," and "sexuality."

This, however, doesn't completely explain why books about straight pornography were unaffected. Daisey says "the Amazon [editing] system is mostly hand-built, and often super idiosyncratic, very Millennium Falcon meets Battlestar Galactica."

Either/or, I'm eating my words. Sorry, Amazon, about falling for this gripe storm!