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Originally Posted by Rev. Bob
If sales numbers matter, just look at the sales data and crown a winner. No voting required.
If quality matters, the sales numbers are irrelevant and said SP walloped you with a large red herring.
Finally, the "popular works don't get Hugos" premise itself is easily disproven. Just look at the 21st century's winners in the Dramatic Presentation (Long) categories. All three LOTR movies, The Incredibles, Serenity, WALL-E, Inception, first season of Game of Thrones, Avengers, and Gravity. For short form, the last decade amounts to Doctor Who and Game of Thrones, plus one episode of BSG and some SJW's indie musical about "Dr. Horrible." (I hear the guy now makes movies about guys in tights. Whadda loser, amirite?)
If those ain't "popular works," just what qualifies?
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Dramatic Presentations are almost always popular movies / TV shows. For Novels, we had a Harry Potter novel, Chabon's Yiddish Policeman's Union, a couple of Neil Gaimon novels, all of which I'm pretty sure made the NYT bestseller lists as well as most SF best of lists. It was his website, and I wasn't interested in trying to spend any time arguing with him over what I thought was a stupid premise. He also claimed he knew (SJW) nominators were nominating stuff they didn't care for but they thought were important. Probably neither provable nor widespread in my opinion.
For what it's worth, I've only nominated a couple of times because I generally don't read that much of the current year's books, and my favorites of the nominees usually don't win the awards. However, I don't take that as a sign that there's a conspiracy to rig the awards.