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Originally Posted by fjtorres
At this point they'd rather vilify than negotiate.
And whatever system they propose will be gamed by both camps. As the iO9 piece says, it is now solely about the politics.
And the money. Like all political feuds there is a monetary concern and the fact that one BPH publisher won three years in a row, even with a mediocre joke, factors into the subtext. There is money in the "Hugo Winner" label and since it is relatively cheap to game the system (just as it is cheap to buy legislators and other politicians) it can pay for the bigger players to spend time and money campaigning. Or smaller players to team-up against the big boys.
None of that will change with new rules.
It will just change the terms of engagement.
From here on out it is scorched earth all the way.
It's all about the grievances.
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This is just conspiracy theory and have nothing to do with reality.