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Originally Posted by HarryT
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.
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I did not say that they broke the technical rules of the process.
You asked "Isn't that what an electoral process is all about? Persuading other people to support your viewpoint? " And my answer was "No."
Not all nomination and electoral processes are the same, and the intrusion of narrow-focus American culture wars into a world SF fandom nomination process, which many of us use to discover new and wonderful books, not just to promote the ones we already know about, is unwelcome and extremely distasteful to many.
I have no interest in promoting a nomination slate, and would side-eye anyone who did. To me, and to many others, that is absolutely not what Hugo nominations are about.