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Originally Posted by Rev. Bob
As a very rough summary, that's close enough for jazz. To add some detail without going overboard, VD was on the SP2 slate last year and started his own slate this year. There are allegations of behind-the-scenes collusion between the SP3 and RP administrators, but little hard evidence. Of course, since the nature of such collusion is that it tends to be secret...
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Actually,
Sad Puppies was announced Feb 1,
Rabid Puppies Feb 2, as can be seen on their web pages.
They also used logos that look nearly identical, so I'd be surprised if they didn't collaborate on this in advance, given the short time between their announcements.
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Rabid Puppies dominated the voting, with no Sad Puppies nominess making the ballot who were not also on the Rabid Puppy slate.
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Essentially, Sad Puppies provides a nice face for Rabid Puppies, run by Theodore Beale (ie. Vox Day), who is essentially a white supremacist. There's a good rundown on Beale at :
http://www.philipsandifer.com/2015/0...r-weapons.html
But having the Hugos hijacked by a white supremacist really pisses me off. And the way Torgersen and Correia bend over backwards to justify their relationship with Beale is additionally infuriating.