Originally posted early Sunday 11/25/2007 on the eBay Search forum.
The following song was quickly banned by eBay's coders.
//An Ode to eBay's code and not test teams.
On the eve of Cyber Monday, here's to you Mr. Coders.
There's a dude who thinks he's a programmer
eBay sellers he meets he stays a stranger
With every change he makes another feature breaks
Odds are IT will crash before tomorrow
Glitchy software dude, glitchy software dude
They've given you a keyboard and taken 'way our sales
Beware of eBay sellers that you find
An eBay seller has an evil mind
Ah, be careful what you change
Or you'll fix something some way
Odds are IT will crash before tomorrow
Glitchy software dude, glitchy software dude
They've given you a keyboard and taken 'way our sales
Hackin' on the Best Match Smart Search one day
And then layin' in an eBay alley next day
Oh no, you let the wrong code ship
While evading chains and whips
Odds are IT will crash before tomorrow
Glitchy software dude, glitchy software dude
They've given you a keyboard and taken 'way our sales
Glitchy software dude
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9toYaZZKHA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Agent_Man_(song)
***Introducing Best Match: A new sort option based on relevance***
http://forums.ebay.com/db1/thread.jspa?threadID=2000241408&tstart=40&mod=1195343348001
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http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=case&court=us&vol=485&page=47
1988, CHIEF JUSTICE REHNQUIST:
At the heart of the First Amendment is the recognition of the fundamental importance of the free flow of ideas and opinions on matters of public interest and concern. "[T]he [485 U.S. 46, 51] freedom to speak one's mind is not only an aspect of individual liberty - and thus a good unto itself - but also is essential to the common quest for truth and the vitality of society as a whole." Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc., 466 U.S. 485, 503 -504 (1984). We have therefore been particularly vigilant to ensure that individual expressions of ideas remain free from governmentally imposed sanctions. The First Amendment recognizes no such thing as a "false" idea. Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc., 418 U.S. 323, 339 (1974). As Justice Holmes wrote, "when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe even more than they believe the very foundations of their own conduct that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas - that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market . . . ." Abrams v. United States, 250 U.S. 616, 630 (1919) (dissenting opinion).
The sort of robust political debate encouraged by the First Amendment is bound to produce speech that is critical of those who hold public office or those public figures who are "intimately involved in the resolution of important public questions or, by reason of their fame, shape events in areas of concern to society at large." Associated Press v. Walker, decided with Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts, 388 U.S. 130, 164 (1967) (Warren, C. J., concurring in result). Justice Frankfurter put it succinctly in Baumgartner v. United States, 322 U.S. 665, 673 -674 (1944), when he said that "[o]ne of the prerogatives of American citizenship is the right to criticize public men and measures." Such criticism, inevitably, will not always be reasoned or moderate; public figures as well as public officials will be subject to "vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks," New York Times, supra, at 270. "[T]he candidate who vaunts his spotless record and sterling integrity cannot convincingly cry `Foul!' when an opponent or an industrious reporter attempts [485 U.S. 46, 52] to demonstrate the contrary." Monitor Patriot Co. v. Roy, 401 U.S. 265, 274 (1971).
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