http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/ ... /?sort=hot
People messed around with various things, and then it turns out the Sears website would cache these if they were accessed a large number of times. Which they were. Which lead to things like this:
http://www.tmz.com/2009/08/20/the-perfe ... -cannibal/
Of course Sears wasn't happy and thus sent a CaD to Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comme ... le/c0c95xr
And thus Reddit becomes a "f*** Sears" site:
http://www.reddit.com/search?q=sears&sort=new&t=week
Snopes also grabbed part of this story: http://www.snopes.com/photos/odd/searsgrill.asp
Shoddy programming on the website brought this on you, Sears. Good job.
tl;dr:
In August 2009, a vulnerability on the Sears website enabled customers to create categories of their choosing for Sears' products, which led to the creation of inappropriate categories such as "Human Cooking" for a meat grill.[7] Sears asked reddit.com to remove a discussion thread on the subject, and as a result of the attempted censorship,[8] hundreds of Reddit users began to proliferate information about the vulnerabilities and Sears' censorship. [9] Dozens of generally negative posts about Sears appeared across reddit[10] and other sites.
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