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Originally Posted by meeera
[Just to check: you do understand the mathematics and mechanics of the nomination process, don't you? And they way in which a small number of people nominating an identical slate can overwhelm a much larger number of people voting for a wide diversity of beloved works? That the slate nominators in no way represented the majority?]
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Yes, I understand the process.
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Maybe it was eventually statistically inevitable given enough time and enough monkeys (or maybe not), but if you think this is business as usual for the Hugos, you're wrong.
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I meant "inevitable" in the sense that social media campaigning happens for pretty much everything in life these days.
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Most fans are honest folks who take the nomination process as an opportunity to vote for the stuff they loved, instead of playing simplistic culture-war games.
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Where I'm afraid I take issue is the idea that it's "dishonest" to push an agenda. It's not. You don't have to like it (and I personally don't like it), but it's in no way dishonest.