The Deed Is Done

[lolmac]

Just finished my Hugo ballot (and just in time, because today is the deadline

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Hugo ballot without PuppyPoop

[campylobacter]

Thanks for doing your part to spite those horrid, brigading bigots who've forever ruined the Hugo Awards! The Puppies have moved science fiction BACKWARDS, when it's a genre which has always innovated literary & cultural shifts because authors tackle progressive & taboo subject matter by disguising it with aliens, dystopias, future speculation, horror, and fantasy technology.

doing the wrong thing for the "right" reason
Dare we hope that the Hugos will restructure the voting process to prevent bad faith voting in the future?

Re: Hugo ballot without PuppyPoop

[lolmac]

It isn't the voting process that needs a fix, it's the nomination process. And I don't think it needs that much of a tweak -- just limiting the number of noms that a single member can submit will make it much harder to game the system. No system is unbreachable, but this particular fruit can be moved a lot higher up the tree.

Re: Hugo ballot without PuppyPoop

[campylobacter]

oh good yes they should do that

Re: Hugo ballot without PuppyPoop

[catsittingstill]

I wrote in a brief summary of E Pluribus Hugo, another proposed amendment to the nomination process, in a comment below. E Pluribus Hugo is a bit complicated, but I think it would work better than the current proposal to limit the nominations to something less than 5, because we are already dealing with two slates.

[evelyn_b]

Good for you! I haven't been following the Hugo Awards debacle all that closely, but it sounds like a truly unfortunate shitshow. I hope the people who have tried to game the system are disappointed, and maybe for a better system next year.

I wish I could pour myself a glass of white wine and toast your good citizenship, but I have three more hours at work, so it will have to wait.

And seconding your wish for a happy Worldcon for everyone!

[lolmac]

Well, I did my voting and wrote the post over lunch, so I haven't had my glass of wine yet either. *clinks temporally-shifted glasses with you* Slainte!

[evelyn_b]

*clink*

[beccadg]

I too spent the 40 dollars to do a lot of voting for Noah Ward. I too cast a vote for Guardians of the Galaxy over films that weren't on the Sick Sad Puppies nomination lists. I, however, I also voted for Jim Butcher's Skin Game over other things that weren't on the list. I'm no more sorry I voted for that novel than I am I voted for that movie. I still repeatedly voted for Noah Ward over many a Sick Sad Puppy choice. Can I still get a cookie?

[lolmac]

Of course you can get a cookie! What kind of cookie would you like?

[beccadg]

Warm chocolate chip, please?

[lolmac]

U can has chocolate!

I have to say, it's really impressive just how prolific and multi-talented that Noah Ward is, doncha think?

[catsittingstill]

I voted also, and went puppy-free also, though I did read many of their nominated works. You didn't miss much

[lolmac]

You should've put this reply under Campy's comment, since she was asking; but hopefully she'll come back and read the thread and see it.

[catsittingstill]

I put in a quick reply to one of her comments mentioning this comment :-)

[beccadg]

I did read many of their nominated works.

You are a braver woman than I! I made sure to look at all the non-puppy nominated works, but the only things from the puppy lists I gave time to were ones I loved well before I knew the puppies had dragged them down into the poop. I voted for the things I knew and really loved, whether or not they got smeared by the puppies, and steered clear of everything else the puppies nominated.

[lost_spook]

Well done! The whole thing has just sounded unbelievable, really. 0_o