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Originally Posted by Nate the great
If participation and coverage of the awards are limited to Puppies circles, can you really say that they gamed by a clique?
It's not their fault that everyone else defaulted.
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It is if they did such a crappy job of promoting their new awards that most of the DragonCon attendees were unaware of them, or how to nominate and vote for them. We don't know how many voted yet, and there's probably no way to actually correlate the emails used in nominating/voting to DragonCon attendees. Furthermore, if the voting were to show that like in the Hugo voting, that 70% of the voting is with a wide spectrum of divergent voting over all the nominees, and 30% vote in near identical slates in all categories, the slates are just about always going to win. across the board. Since it's so easy to create thousands, if not millions of valid emails, unless DragonCon has ways to prevent the spambots, a few dedicated trolls can distort the results of their award voting.
I skipped on them because most of the nominees I had not read, nor had time to read them. I'm not a DragonCon attendee, but the main reason I knew of the awards is because of all the negative comments over at File770.
I wish them well, but if anyone thinks that this year's voting is likely to be a broadbased canvassing of the F & SF communities (assuming that's even possible), I think they are sadly mistaken. On the other hand, if you have similar tastes to Vox Day, you'll probably like this year's Dragon winners.