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Originally Posted by HarryT
You don't need to spend $50 to encourage people to vote for the books that you consider to be worthy candidates.
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I don't want to encourage people to vote for the books I consider worthy
at all. I want people to vote for the books
they consider worthy. Not the ones that some successful campaign platform (regardless of the "honorableness" of its intent) convinced them they should consider worthy. I'm OK with it being a "democratic process," I'm just not OK with how easy it is to gerrymander the nomination process.
Loud-mouthed internet idiots will always attract more votes than a grassroots "hey, I'm a nice guy who think this book is really good" campaign. And I think there's some simple tweaks that could reduce the affect of either type of needless campaign on the nomination process.