Cue "Hotel California"

[james_davis_nicoll]

Withdrawing from the supreme honour of a Dragon Award is not permitted!

Comments

[mme_hardy]

Note DragonCon's statement says that "justice warriors" are also trying to rig the ballot. Your bias is showing there.

"We are aware of the rabid puppies and justice warriors[sic] efforts to effect[sic] the voting "

[cyprinella]

Ew.

[redbird]

At least someone told her she was nominated; apparently that's more courtesy than they gave N. K. Jemisen.

[ffutures]

I hope she has someone who is willing to go to the ceremony to decline the award for her if she wins.

[arkessian]

Anyone know if Scalzi got the same response?

[dionysus1999]

Social justice warriors don't stuff ballots, we hold our nose and vote for the person least likely to get us into yet another war against something that's nebulous and impossible to beat.

[lydy]

It seems very likely to me that Dragoncon _can't_ withdraw nominations from consideration. What can be seen about the nominating and voting process suggest, strongly, that all of this is "automated." That is to say, they have some software that tallies nominations, and then votes. Everything about their organization of this award says that it is not well-organized, nor does it command a lot of resources, especially not in terms of volunteer hours. I think they thought that running a major award would be easy, that all you'd have to do was just set up the best software... Yeah, no.

This is a mess of their own making, born of not really thinking things through, and I have only limited sympathy for them. But I suspect that they genuinely have no ability to change course, that all of these problems are baked in.