Have the Hugos become *too* diverse?

[james_davis_nicoll]

What of the poor oppressed white male SF authors?

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[dsrtao]

Hugos are a proxy for a popular judgment on quality, confounded by all the other factors.

If it were pure popularity, than you could just award each works award based on sales quantity.

If it were pure quality, the voters would have to be qualified in some way other than by their willingness to pay a fee.

After years of angsting about it, I have determined that to me, Hugo awards are not as useful as the nominations, which are crowdsourced recommendation lists. It's nice when a book I especially liked or an author I particularly admire wins, but the value is in finding good new things to read.

That is why the puppies piss me off so much: they decided that their opinions were worth destroying everyone else's.

[conuly]

All they're really doing is destroying what prestige remains of the award.