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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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Many Worldcon members, myself included, were unhappy that Beale's slate in many categories was stacking the deck in favor of his publishing house, and would have been just as upset if Tor or Ace had created a slate favoring their own works. When the Scientologists tried to do the same with one of Hubbard's works, the voters rejected it soundly also.