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I'll read enough of what arrives in the voter packet to make up my mind on the actual work, but just judging from Michael Z Williamson's blog, I suspect that this isn't a case of Poe's Law. Anyone posting this...
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Its far from certain that they're going to force reform of the nominations process. And yeah, if it happens, SP members may claim victory. Hell, I'm prepared to consider improvement to the voting process as a victory for all reasonable...
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I think we should look for a fix that does not openly discriminate against them. Possibly some sort of fix which discriminates against nominations being dominated by slates? Maybe something like RAV? A fix which will, even in non-slate years,...
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I think that's about as good as you can get. It will sound very bad to a lot of people. "They say it isn't corrupt because they made a rule to do it that way. They made the rule last...
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How on earth did you get from "Reasonable Third Party" to "Fox News"?...
Commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
a) "The Hugo nominees were selected using Re-weighted Approval Voting, in accordance with the rules and regulations covering nominations" b) Hugo nomination statistics aren't released until after the ceremony. It is very likely that one of the 80 vote or...
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LRon, I'll be voting for No Award before any of the puppy Slate nominees, because that is the best way I have of discouraging this sort of shenanigans. Hopefully, next year, people should see being placed on the slate of...

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Dirk Bruere commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
Police corruption is a major problem and is far more widespread than the genteel middle class ever expects. Fortunately the Net has given a voice to those whose testimony would once have been ignored, and often there is video evidence. The surveillance society cuts both ways....
paws4thot commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
I'd not have spotted "Upney"; I would have got "Dagenham East" though....
Charlie Stross commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
Greg, YELLOW CARD. You do not call Jews "yids" on this blog, just as you do not get to call African-Americans "niggers": these are highly offensive ethnic slurs. Similarly you do not get to call Muslims "ragheads" or members of the Church of Latter Day Saints "morons": these are highly offensive slurs based on a perceived group identity, and are no less unpleasant for that. Just don't do it, okay? Don't force me to ban you. (Original comments left in place ONLY so that other commenters can see why I'm issuing this warning.)...
Charlie Stross commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
J Thomas: YELLOW CARD. The term for what you are doing is "derailing". If this was a discussion of feminism, it'd be "mansplaining". Stop it at once: the context of Greg's remarks is obvious and trying to position them otherwise is just disingenuous....
Arnold commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
This has just occurred to me...in My Very Own Brain which is MINE!! ..And it is that, if the Sad /and possibly sick, puppies claims have some merit, then...we British and Our High Fiction of Popularity - that isn't recognised by either the 'Social Justice Worriers’, or the, " Puppies " at all - has been SORELY Neglected!! WHY hasn’t our ever so popular U.K. Author Lionel Fanthorpe been nominated for a Retro HUGO? SEE HERE... "During the late 1950's and early 60's, The Rev Lionel Fanthorpe wrote over 150 pulp fiction novels under various names for Badger Books. "His...

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Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
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