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• Commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
  Well, I am sure his working assumption is he can get actual voters to vote 'slate', but that's trickier because then he has the issue of he'd have to basically campaign over and over for people to just vote No...
• Commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
  Well, I think his rather unsubtle threat here is simply a riff on Michael Caine's speech to the Mafia in the original Italian Job. "If you vote us off the ballot with No Award this year, I will make sure...
• Commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
  Well, I must admit I have to disagree with one aspect of your Ross statement upthread. When I looked for it, and I looked pretty hard, I found one fat reference to a woman at a roast. I've never been...
• Commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
  The Rabid Puppies slate did much better than the Sad Puppies in fact. To be honest, given how popular Beale claims his blog to be, I'm not entirely surprised, and I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of his readers...
• Commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
  If you look at the numbers, as others have done, the slate effectively crowded out a lot of things because the votes are widely spread - yes, damn that cabal of SMOFs driving their friends to victory etc... So a...
• Commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
  So that 'open letter', didn't take me long to bounce off the core problem: "I started this campaign a few years ago because I believed that the awards were politically biased, and dominated by a few insider cliques." While he...
• Commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
  I am REALLY sure you don't want to start me finding John C Wright quotes on homosexuality or so forth do you? Do you really want to go there? No, thought not....
• Commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
  "I get that you think that culture matters, that who wins the Hugo should not just be about how many people like the work. That you yourself vote not for what you like but for what you think is the...
• Commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
  "It sounds to me like you have a concept of Culture, and you think it's Cultured work that should win Hugos more than what you actually like. And then you say that this is not a culture fight! What else...
• Commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
  "The ones who have grown up are the ones who are just dealing with it without a lot of upset, right?" I don't think it's immature to be upset when a bunch of vandals screw around with something because they're...
• Commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
  I think the usual response to comments 'like be nice to me or I won't buy your books' is 'okthxbye'... It's a silly threat - there are lots of people buying fiction, and frankly what an individual thinks is largely...