Kari S
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Commented on How I learned to stop worrying and love the concept of punitive slating....
Slates of any kind are divisive. Count me as another signatory against slates of any stripe in future years. The puppies chose to use my liberal feminist editor, Sheila Gilbert of DAW books, as one of their shields. They clearly...
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CPickersgill commented on
How I learned to stop worrying and love the concept of punitive slating....
There's some information here....
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Dave P commented on
How I learned to stop worrying and love the concept of punitive slating....
You can always check out the Big Idea entries in John Scalzi's blog: http://whatever.scalzi.com/ (I don't think OGH will mind my promoting that particular blog)....
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Scott Sanford commented on
How I learned to stop worrying and love the concept of punitive slating....
It's worth remembering that there are more SF readers in the US than in the UK, so despite having a great draw from proximal fans LonCon also got quite a few Americans - just not as many as a North American Worldcon gets....
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Ilya Fisher commented on
How I learned to stop worrying and love the concept of punitive slating....
Dear All, there is at least one positive outcome from all this nonsense with rabid and sad puppies. As a humble reader of science fiction that does not suck (C), I am now motivated to at least buy a support membership. Maybe even attend the worldcon in 2017. I am sure I am not the only one like this. In this way Brad Torgersen did a huge public service and a lot of good may come out of this in the future....
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Dirk Bruere commented on
How I learned to stop worrying and love the concept of punitive slating....
Gamergater in the news, and he lives up to my stereotype of them: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/11/terrorist-troll-pretended-to-be-isis-white-supremacist-and-jewish-lawyer.html...
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