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I think the problem here is that the slate nominations are not about having your say but about denying everyone else their say.
I nominated this year, and might as well not have bothered since I didn't have a few hundred willing drones to back up my votes. I foolishly nominated the best things I'd read. I feel that it's personally disrespectful to me and everyone like me to block-vote a slate like that, and the thousands of unaligned fans like me would seem to agree.
The point of the shortlist is to stop you needing to read everything to give a fair vote. It will only be something approximating the best if people play fair. If the stuff that has been creating a buzz and which has made up all the other award shortlists doesn't feature, then you've got to suspect that the system hasn't worked.
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