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Originally Posted by Ajax
Proved that the best way to protest slate voting, is to...
slate vote for "No Award"
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I guess that would be true if that's what happened, but I'm sure a lot of people are like me and still didn't want to vote for no award even though the slates were annoying (especially Rabid Puppies, because he specifically told his followers they didn't need to bother reading any of it, just vote exactly as he said, and many of them did).
So I read everything (even that awful Kevin J Anderson book which was a struggle), and voted everything where I thought it belonged, which means in some cases No Award was first. As long as I keep voting, I'll still try to read everything, however it gets on there, and vote how I see it. I just hope that if there are slates they look a little bit more at quality because I realize tastes differ (the rabid bunch actually seems to like the John C Wright stuff that was nominated, unbelievable as that is to me after reading it), but some of that stuff no way anyone thought it was actually good (try reading the Michael Z Williamson nominee or the Kevin J Anderson book if you don't believe me).
The only thing I'll do differently this year is I'm going to nominate, which I've never bothered doing before.
The thing I'm actually more disappointed about then the No Awards (because they suck but in most cases based on what was nominated were deserved) is that there was a proposal to allow all members, supporting and attending, a chance to vote on things that were ratified at the business meetings (so it would take 3 years instead of 2, but you could vote even if you weren't there). I think if not for the events of this year, it might have passed, but it lost I think 69-47, and I think that was due to this year's mess.