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Originally Posted by rkomar
....Having people select books that they haven't even read makes it even worse. It turns the exercise into a competition rather than a census, and makes it useless as a polling and marketing tool. Perhaps you thought it was always useless for that, and feel no loss at the destruction of the census. To me, it is sad, especially because it was done for such a pathetically small power grab.
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Exactly. When you reach out to gamergaters to vote on books/stories/blogs they haven't even read, you're destroying the value of the award, in that it no longer represents any kind of reading popular consensus, merely a motivated faction.