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 17:19:25 -0000 (UTC) Organization: Public Access Networks Corp. Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2024 17:19:25 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader1.panix.com; posting-host="panix2.panix.com:166.84.1.2"; logging-data="17737"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 2518 Lines: 40 In article , James Nicoll wrote: >In article , >Ahasuerus wrote: >>On 7/22/2024 9:19 PM, James Nicoll wrote: >>> In article , >>> Ahasuerus 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. >> >>Perhaps it was more along the lines of George Bernard Shaw's dictum >>about wrestling with pigs: >> >>"You both get dirty and the pig likes it." >> >>Or "If we throw enough mud at the wall some of it will stick". >> >Just at this second, it looks like it might be SF's version of the >Black Sox Scandal. > Which is to say, some gambler dropped 20K trying to fix a contest on which he was voting. -- 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