Where Do We Go From Here?

[secritcrush]

So the Hugo results are in and Worldcon has firmly rejected slate voting. Congratulations to all the winners. I happened to wake up early this morning and caught the livestream of the event from about when Connie Willis was on stage. It was awkward and uncomfortable each time no award was announced. This wasn't a good result. It was merely the

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[matgb]

I saw the total nominations compared to actual votes cast and thought of your review of the Anderson book, he got less first prefs than he got nominations which is fairly telling.

I hope it carries over to next year with a lot of people making nominations. In my dream scenario enough people will nominate that it won't be necessary to change the rules to prevent slate voting.

I haven't seen a report of the business meeting, did any of the supposed proposals get anywhere d'you know? Regardless, yes, 300ish nominations compared to 5,600 votes cast, getting people to actually nominate would do a lot to change the impact this has had.

[redheadedfemme]

That's what I intend to do. I've already started on next year's nomination list.

Matgb, both E Pluribus Hugo and 4/6 were passed at today's business meeting (the latter, just barely; the former, with a healthy cushion of "yes" votes). I would think EPH, at least, would be ratified next year as well, especially with the Pups already planning for the bigger nastier slate next year.