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Old 04-08-2015, 02:29 PM   #139
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I'm not looking to "drown" any particular slate. I mean to dilute them with many other competing slates--public or whispered.
Same thing, different word. Basically, you'd prefer to see the puddle become a handful of straws, lessening one slate's influence at what I consider too high a price: a narrower breadth of nominees.

(Note that I'm not talking about a demographic shift in the works nominated, just that ten slates of five nominees is fifty competing works, whereas a thousand people nominating without slates would list far more than that. A slate of demographically diverse nominees is, in my opinion, just as bad as an "all-MilSF" or an "all-Paranormal Romance" slate.)

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I don't believe any slate would continue to grow proportionally with an ever increasing pool size.
Why not? It happens in the United States every time there's an election; regardless of the turnout, the proportions stay fairly consistent. Why should I expect this slate to behave differently?
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