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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Sorry. Not buying it. NYT Best Seller list is quite the accomplishment, no doubt about it. But it does not make one a household name (nor even guarantee you can quit your day job). How many one-time best-selling fantasy authors are languishing in obscurity right now?
That his recent activities have garnered him even more notoriety and more sales is hardly arguable. Whether or not that is the reason he's doing it is at the very least debatable. Which we're doing. Which takes us right back to; "either you believe his given reasons or you don't." And I don't. I think he's clamoring for attention.
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Well okay, let's say you don't believe his given reasons and that I do. How much is it relevant?
He's gaming the system, he's a hacker, he's making a point; and maybe the end result will be that the Hugo awards will take measures to prevent this kind of abuse (if it's to be considered as abuse). Whether or not there were SWJ colluding in the Hugos, there are now guys like him (what's his group name? I've read Mormon, conservative, etc... but is there something maybe more derogatory?) colluding. End result will be that either the Hugos will improve and prevent any collusion, which is a good thing, either he will have made a good point (that someone else would have made anyway since the problem would then be endemic). Either way he deserves the fame, he's doing it openly like a good figther.