eBay's Ill-Timed Lifetime Achievement Webby

theodp writes "eBay CEO Meg Whitman will accept a special Webby Lifetime Achievement Award next month on behalf of the eBay Community, which has 'permanently changed the way people connect, discover and interact with each other.' Perhaps by then, people will have forgotten how eBay enabled buyer 'Blazers5505' to hook up with sellers like 'oneclickshooting' just weeks before the worst mass shooting in modern US history, prompting eBay to issue a gun-parts-don't-kill-students-guns-and-ammo-do statement that showed little evidence of its celebrated commitment to social consciousness. CEO Whitman, who received $11.1M last year for her leadership efforts, has kept a low profile since tooting eBay's trust-and-safety horn for Wall Street analysts two days after the Va. Tech rampage."

While we're on the subject

[Hijacked Public]

Recent information indicates that it will be necessary to also ban hammers from sale on Ebay, to avert future criticism along these same lines.

And the Webby for Snarkiest article summary goes..

[elrous0]

to kdawson!! Congrats on the award! How about a snarky, back-handed, sarcastic award speech for us?

Re:Laughable

[MeanderingMind]

I'm guessing it's revenge for negative feedbacks.

Re:Nice flamebait

[deathy_epl+ccs]

Ebay didn't kill anyone, sheesh. If he hadn't gotten the parts there, he would've gotten them somewhere else. What next, a story on how McDonalds is supporting criminals by allowing the to buy lunch there?

You just don't get the big picture! If they were hungry, then they'd have been more occupied with trying to eat and they wouldn't have been able to commit their crimes!

Re:Laughable

[dr_dank]

'We are deeply disturbed by the presence of these articles,' investigator Stew Piddington stated

If you want to be an investigator, changing your name from something that starts with "stupid" is a good first move.

Re:ebay? Ugh.

[Jaysyn]

....Says the hypocrite selling pet supplies on the net. Wow, you are just so elite.

Next article

[UnknowingFool]

Greenpeace issues a statement expressing their displeasure on how eBay has a poor environmental policy when it comes to computer manufacturing and disposal. An eBay spokesperson responded that eBay does not manufacture any computers. To which Greenpeace responded that eBay re-sells computers and therefore shares the social responsibility to ensure that the computers are manufactured and disposed in the most environmentally friendly way. To which the eBay spokesperson said, "Bite my shiny metal ass."

Re:I hate to say it....

[Jaysyn]

There are ads on Slashdot?

The Spoon Companies are next

[jimbolauski]

Spoons and spoon makers are responsible for numerous people being fat, without spoons they couldn't shovel in the lard it would simply run through their forks. Anyone supporting spoon companies is directly responsible for fat people and should be ashamed.

Re:Nice flamebait

[Reality Master 101]

Ebay didn't kill anyone, sheesh

In all fairness, the submitter didn't imply eBay killed the students, he's only implying that Meg Whitman killed them. :)

What a trollish summary.

[operagost]

Seems that if you can blame eBay for a nutjob killing people, then you can blame eBay for scam artists ripping people off. But why stop there? Blame eBay for deaths caused by drunk drivers who bought cars, furries who bought stuffed animals, and trolling Slashdot submitters who bought new computers.

Re:I hate to say it....

[0racle]

I read slashdot and I feel like everything is going wrong

It is

big corporations getting more powerful

They are

government getting more powerful

It is

losing civil liberties

You are

everywhere in the world (not just Europe, but China, Iran, etc too!) being better than the US

They're not

America is so backward

It is

It's kinda damn depressing

You are comming to a sad realization, Cancel or Allow?