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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
The suggestion I've seen bandied around that intrigues me is the one based solely on greatly increasing nominations. Nothing else really changes.
Under this new plan, a $40 supporting membership would buy you a LIFETIME of nomination rights. To get the voter pack and to vote, you still need to pay for a membership that year.
The full explanation and rationale: https://storify.com/jdiddyesquire/my-hugo-proposal |
The solution I've heard that I like better is the single transferable vote. Everyone gets a single vote that is transferable if your first choice drops out. This makes it much harder for a block of voters to overload the nominations. Instead of being able to vote for 5 works, and getting a block of X people to vote for the same 5 works, and shutting out all other nominees (as happened for the novella award), you'd need 5 discreet groups for the shutout. It's still possible to game the system, but a lot harder to monopolize a category.