It's sometimes fun to note that I have *votes*, not just strong opinions, on the Hugo Awards. As you probably already know if you're the kind of nerd to be reading this, there was a concerted attempt by neo-fascists, white supremacists, hyperreactionaries, men's rights activists, literal neo-nazis, and some just plain garden-variety jerks to hijack the World Science Fiction Society's Hugo Awards this year, and they managed to pretty thoroughly stuff the ballot with terrible works that would never have gotten a legitimate nomination.
So I figure, let's make my ballot (and my notes on the ballot) public. I've got a few rules for myself this year:
#1: No Award goes above *all* works brigaded onto the ballot, full stop.
#2: No legitimate nominee goes below any brigaded work, full stop.
#3: I *have* been reading and ranking the nominees who didn't make it onto the ballot honestly, and I have ranked them. That rank has most often been "last" because MOST (not all) of the dishonest nominations are for really genuinely terrible work, but where I think a work might have made it legitimately if it had only been given the chance, I ranked it not-last.
(As a note, I'd do the "below No Award" thing if *anyone* had brigaded nominees onto the ballot. The fact that the people trying to cheat this year are gators and shitheads, and the stuff they got onto the ballot is so bad, just makes my voting delicious.)
( And now, the ballot. )
And that's that, so far. Gotta finish The Goblin Emperor and read the magazines, but I'm mostly done.
PS: A few preemptive responses:
If you're going to pop up here and argue that the bigoted shitheads were "just doing what other people have done for years", I'm going to laugh and you and block you because you're either knowingly advancing a dishonest argument or you're so stupid that a conversation with you is simply impossible.
If you're going to argue that I should ignore HOW works got onto the ballot because they're here now, I'm going to laugh at you and *probably* block you, because I strongly feel that "you didn't make it onto the ballot fairly" is an indication that you probably weren't good enough to make it onto the ballot fairly, and oh look, an examination of the works bears that out. I respect people who made the choice to pretend all the nominees deserved to be there and to ignore how many good works got pushed off, but I'm not one of them and I'm not on *your* blog telling you you must rank them below No Award, am I? No.
If you're going to argue that I'm somehow "playing into their hands" by downvoting the bigots' nominees, I'm going to laugh at you and almost certainly block you. As they've made abundantly clear on numerous occasions, the bigots plan to declare victory *no matter what happens*, regardless of how much they've previously said they do or do not want any given result. They don't care what the results are, and I don't care what they think about the results. I care about what *I* think of the results.
If you're a published Baen author here to have a phenomenally racist meltdown in the comments section while touting your Baen credits as prove of the value of your opinons, please feel free. Three of your colleagues already have and I will add you to the collection. I don't think you should do that, though, because I suspect at this point the *good* authors Baen publishes are deeply embarrassed by your shitty antics and tired of you dragging their publisher's name through the dirt.
If you've made it all the way to here, have a kitty.
So I figure, let's make my ballot (and my notes on the ballot) public. I've got a few rules for myself this year:
#1: No Award goes above *all* works brigaded onto the ballot, full stop.
#2: No legitimate nominee goes below any brigaded work, full stop.
#3: I *have* been reading and ranking the nominees who didn't make it onto the ballot honestly, and I have ranked them. That rank has most often been "last" because MOST (not all) of the dishonest nominations are for really genuinely terrible work, but where I think a work might have made it legitimately if it had only been given the chance, I ranked it not-last.
(As a note, I'd do the "below No Award" thing if *anyone* had brigaded nominees onto the ballot. The fact that the people trying to cheat this year are gators and shitheads, and the stuff they got onto the ballot is so bad, just makes my voting delicious.)
( And now, the ballot. )
And that's that, so far. Gotta finish The Goblin Emperor and read the magazines, but I'm mostly done.
PS: A few preemptive responses:
If you're going to pop up here and argue that the bigoted shitheads were "just doing what other people have done for years", I'm going to laugh and you and block you because you're either knowingly advancing a dishonest argument or you're so stupid that a conversation with you is simply impossible.
If you're going to argue that I should ignore HOW works got onto the ballot because they're here now, I'm going to laugh at you and *probably* block you, because I strongly feel that "you didn't make it onto the ballot fairly" is an indication that you probably weren't good enough to make it onto the ballot fairly, and oh look, an examination of the works bears that out. I respect people who made the choice to pretend all the nominees deserved to be there and to ignore how many good works got pushed off, but I'm not one of them and I'm not on *your* blog telling you you must rank them below No Award, am I? No.
If you're going to argue that I'm somehow "playing into their hands" by downvoting the bigots' nominees, I'm going to laugh at you and almost certainly block you. As they've made abundantly clear on numerous occasions, the bigots plan to declare victory *no matter what happens*, regardless of how much they've previously said they do or do not want any given result. They don't care what the results are, and I don't care what they think about the results. I care about what *I* think of the results.
If you're a published Baen author here to have a phenomenally racist meltdown in the comments section while touting your Baen credits as prove of the value of your opinons, please feel free. Three of your colleagues already have and I will add you to the collection. I don't think you should do that, though, because I suspect at this point the *good* authors Baen publishes are deeply embarrassed by your shitty antics and tired of you dragging their publisher's name through the dirt.
If you've made it all the way to here, have a kitty.