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Originally Posted by meeera
The answer to "slate voting is bad" is not "so we'll just put forward our own slate".
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But my point is that they are doing nothing that's against the rules of the Hugo nomination process, and neither are they doing anything that you couldn't do yourself if you want to nominate different works. The Hugos are, as you point out yourself, essentially a "popularity contest". In that regard they differ fundamentally from awards like the Man Booker Prize or the Arthur C. Clarke Award, in which books are judged by a panel of judges on the basis of their literary merit.