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A second Salon article on the GR/Amazon enforcements of their new policy: http://www.salon.com/2013/10/23/how_a...
— Oct 24, 2013 12:28AM
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Oct 24, 2013 03:50AM
This is amazing - the protest is suddenly almost mainstream. Great job, Ceridwen and Alfaniel!
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Yessss ...!!* High fives to Ceridwen and Alfaniel. *
No, no, too kind words, not warranted for the mere messenger. The simple thing is I think it's necessary for us to *spread* knowledge about aspects most people ignore.People still misstate the policy and its real enforcement too often. How many of those who barely heard of it still think it's about "author behavior", while GR is deleting reviews on what happens here? Too many. How many members of this site don't even know about the rules? Too many. Who outside GR knows that years-old top reviewers have reviews removed and are threatened with account removal? Almost no one.
Which is why I'm compelled to make known your links and articles for people to get to know what you, this community, have to say.
We're gathering them on Ceridwen's hiddenreviews tumblr. We're collecting them in an ebook.
They're public. People wrote them. In September, in October, or in years before.
You have built this site, not me. I can do my best to get to know that, and call it by its name.
As an outsider myself, I call it as I see it. What I see is that GR/Amazon does not regard this community as a contributor community, a partner of discussion and worthy of respect.
Alfaniel wrote: "What I see is that GR/Amazon does not regard this community as a contributor community, a partner of discussion and worthy of respect."Exactly. To them, in the words of the Salon.com piece, we're the product -- we're just data. Period.
