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Old 08-25-2015, 07:33 AM   #87
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Originally Posted by ST-One View Post
Yes, these No Awards denied novellas, which readers seem to enjoy, a win, and Toni Weisskopf, who seems to be held in esteem, to be honoured with and award.

All of this simply out of spite and bloc-voting.
Mileage will vary between voters, but I did have a go at reading everything in the packet. I found all of the novellas dire-to-mediocre, not Hugo material. I chose not to vote for Weisskopf because I have found her work generally not of interest to me, nor did I feel she would have won the category in a competitive, non-slate field. (I felt the same about the Heuvelt story and Mixon's nomination, and voted accordingly.) Looking at io9's post at what the field would have looked like without the slate bloc votes, I suspect like I was correct about that, but we'll never know.

I've spoken with some other voters who said much the same thing.

Attributing everything to "spite" does a disservice, I feel. A lot of fans are far more thoughtful than that.
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