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Originally Posted by meeera
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.
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I'm sorry, but it
is an election campaign. It always has been. An election is simply "the selection of something by vote". The Hugos are a popularity contest, pure and simple. It's never been about "what's the best book?", but "which book do most people vote for?", which is entirely different. All that's happened here is that people with an agenda have started using social media for campaigning, just as happens in any election. It was inevitable that this was going to happen.
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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.
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If that was addressed at me, I haven't criticised the outcome at all
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