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Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix2.panix.com!not-for-mail From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Today's interesting development Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2024 01:19:10 -0000 (UTC) Organization: Public Access Networks Corp. Message-ID: <v7n0ed$pf5$1@reader1.panix.com> References: <v7mdqf$je7$1@panix2.panix.com> <v7mr1t$s1a5$1@dont-email.me> Injection-Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2024 01:19:10 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader1.panix.com; posting-host="panix2.panix.com:166.84.1.2"; logging-data="26085"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 1757 Lines: 22 In article <v7mr1t$s1a5$1@dont-email.me>, Ahasuerus <ahasuerus@email.com> wrote: >On 7/22/2024 4:01 PM, James Nicoll wrote: >> Someone spent $19,000 dollars to stuff the Hugo Award ballot >> box in a way that seems either very, very ineptly or in a >> manner calculated to be spotted. >> >> https://glasgow2024.org/hugo-awards/statement-22-july-2024/ >> >> Now, I do recall a case in the 1980s, I think, where an exuberant >> fan tried to buy a story he liked a Hugo, using consecutively >> numbered traveller's checks to buy memberships. So people do >> fuck up comprehensively. But it could also be someone really dislikes >> Finalist A and wanted to make them look bad. > >Or -- conceivably -- someone who dislikes the Hugo award as an institution. What a half-assed attack, then. -- My reviews can be found at http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/ My tor pieces at https://www.tor.com/author/james-davis-nicoll/ My Dreamwidth at https://james-davis-nicoll.dreamwidth.org/ My patreon is at https://www.patreon.com/jamesdnicoll