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Originally Posted by HarryT
I'm afraid I strongly disagree with you. Campaigning for your favoured candidate is a standard - and entirely legitimate - part of any electoral process. It's not "dishonourable", "unethical", "shitty" or "childish". If you dislike the nominations that someone else is urging you to make, you are entirely free to ignore them or, even better, promote the nominees that you think should be considered for the award.
To change the democratic process when people - shock! horror! - actually start using it in an entirely legitimate way seems to me to be a case of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
I do not agree with the aims of this particular group, but I 100% support their right to take the actions they took.
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I have already said that they have the right to do it.
If you truly, honestly believe in your heart that every single slate nominantor truly loved and adored exactly those five things in every category, the most out of everything that year, in exactly the same order as all the other slate voters did? Well, I just plain don't believe you. Because no one is that gullible.
Yes, they had the right. It was legal. It was also wrong.
Because this is not an election campaign. It's not the Republican nominations. it's a fan award of things we love, and the honest way to take part is to nominate the things you love.
But there's nothing against the letter of the law about not nominating the things you love the most.
But you know what really gets my goat even more? People who support the Puppies slate nomination process because it's within the rules, then yelling at people who voted No Award.
No, I'm not going to campaign for a competing slate, and I've seen less than a handful of people supporting that. Splitting the community into two pitted, political nomination slates is exactly the worst possible outcome. The whole point is for a huge diversity of loved, amazing works to be nominated by the people who love them. Not for an Americanised, party-political process to take over because of the actions of a few foul* people with a grudge.
(* if you want to dispute whether or not TB is foul, we're off to P&R.)