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From: Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Hello? Anyone here?
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2024 08:53:48 -0500
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On 11/30/24 12:59 AM, Robert Woodward wrote:
> One post in 24 hours; this is really bad.
> 
> I should try to fill the void; but I find myself unable to write very
> quickly (it doesn't help that I keep deleting words after I write them).
> 
> I did finish something after 15 minutes of struggle, thus a question for
> any present:
> 
> I once spent a good deal of time studying the 2015 Hugo nominations.
> While the Rabid Puppies were definitely block voting, the Sad Puppies
> appeared to be different. Either there were secret puppies with their
> own nominations lists (which overlapped the Sad Puppy list) 

You're hypothesizing a third kind of puppy? Two was too many already!
- Tony

> or many of
> the Sad Puppies were only nominating works that they had read. If the
> latter was the case, while they could be accused of ungood literary
> taste, was this block voting?
>