Rage Against the Machine

The past couple days Etsy has been starting to feel a sudden increase in heat from its customers regarding its opacity and general non-openness.

We started off the morning Wednesday with calls for Etsy to fix what is broken and unlike the post like it the day before it actually lived longer than 2 pages.

Then later was the 3-part thread that started with accusations of a bead seller reselling other beadmakers work and that it appeared Etsy had edited some sold pages since there were statements that were now missing from the original listings, yet the seller was still selling. After that was shut down, Quirke asked for clarification that Etsy wasn't/was editing sold listings. That took only two pages to be shut down with a non-helpful SarahSays lock of death. (Kind of like a blue screen of death, only less informative.)

Not taking a non-answer as an answer, Quirke once again poked the admin by simply asking for the same answer in another thread, but this time Matt replied with an honest-to-god actual informational reply of more than one paragraph, and without locking it and referring readers to another useless and locked thread that they also never answered those questions. Matt is good and sets off no BS sirens in our heads, and for that reason we love Matt in an almost warm and tingly way. (We love Quirke too, because we like people who like pointy sticks and demand answers to hard questions as much as we do.)

Some good came out of the last one, as many suggested that while things might have been removed to suit DCMA rules, no one was notified of the deletions, and no deletion notation was made on the listings to keep things in the open and on the up and up. (I want to know why the shop in question wasn't shut down personally.) You can still chime in, as of this moment it's still open.

I would like to think EtsyBitch has helped inspire this rash of rampant surliness, but that would be cocky (and my name isn't "The Cocky One").