Woohoo!

[yendi]

The Advice feature on Amazon -- the one I bitched about a couple of weeks ago because various Christian groups were going and recommending all sorts of non-relevant Xtian books against horror novels and the like -- has been suspended. Amazon claims it's because of "commercial abuse," but I don't doubt cases like this were a factor as well (and I don't doubt that others complained too).

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Interesting!

[sambear.livejournal.com]

I kind of thought that feature was amusing - I never ran into the Christian book problem you did.

But it was very funny when, one time, I got a recommendation for

1) A book of lesbian erotica
2) A book on creative parenting
3) A book on pagan rituals

I'm like, "OK - they've got me pegged here....hmmm!"

Re: Interesting!

[yendi]

Are you talking about the Amazon-based recommendations? Those are still there, and are working nicely. I'm talking about the option they set up about a month ago, where, upon looking at, say, Queen of the Damned, you could click on a button and say that you'd recommend Guilty Pleasures instead (as something that someone who was already intrgued by the first book might enjoy more). Because all users were weighted equally, almost every horror book I looked up had various Xtian books recommended instead. There were plenty of other examples of abuse and silliness, too, alas.