1. I wrote about the Hugo Awards mess here http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121554/2015-hugo-awards-and-history-science-fiction-culture-wars … but there is something more to say about why slate voting is wrong.
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@TheIronRobot I dunno. It's hard to image how slate voting can be squared with an honest counting of personal taste.
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@HeerJeet Easy to imagine prevailing attitudes resulting in the exclusion of highly meritorious works that everyone might enjoy1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@HeerJeet e.g. pervasive racist, sexist, politically intolerant attitudes1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@HeerJeet Can't see why a coordinated campaign to get excluded works of great merit by diverse authors wouldn't be perfectly legit.3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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@TheIronRobot Right but even if such a campaign occurred, readers would have to chose which of those excluded works to champion.
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