My thoughts on the 2015 Hugo finalists; it's time to unleash the Happy Kittens

[adriennef]

So a lot of people are angry with the Hugo nomination results and not for the first time. This year the pundits are more upset than ever. The Sad/Rabid Puppies campaign, led by Brad Torgersen, Larry Correia and Vox Day, to put their favorites on the ballot was significantly successful and many in the community saw it as a slap against progression

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[johnnyeponymous]

I've been watching Vox and how he moves within Gamergate for about 6 months now. He's wicked smart, his followers incredibly loyal, his techniques precise. He's Moriarty, basically. There is no way to stop except going to that dark place. The only way to stop him next year is for the Administrators to make definitive actions, because we'll either give him a Hugo and he'll take that as a sign that the system is gameable or we'll vote No Award and his mobilize his army to make us pay for our insolence! The only way, sadly. Any thought that we can grow the WorldCon voter pool, and Mary is doing a great thing with that!, or that we can come up with new rules, that we can weather the storm and let it blow itself out will take far too long, have already taken far too long. Yes, it's extreme action, but we NEED to clip it off. The only realistic way to do so is for the Administrators to act.
Chris

[kevin_standlee]

My concern is that the formation of counter-slates leads people to become the very thing that the Puppies said the rest of us were doing in their paranoid fantasies.

Calls for an Administrator to arbitrarily on his/her own initiative disqualify individuals based on their voting patterns or any other kind of non-objective standard effectively says, "We want the Administrator to decide who wins."