"As a matter of fact, forget the video and the blackjack."

[james_davis_nicoll]

Dragon Con Launches Its Own SF Awards

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[w. dow rieder (from livejournal.com)]

Someone should put together an award for best scheme for ballot-box stuffing for awards with an open electorate that allow voting over the internet. That would be way more interesting.

And whoever wins, you can be more sure than usual that they deserve it...

[julesjones]

Something like this is actually a thing at Redemption, in the form of the Ruler of the Universe competition. Voting on paper at the con only, and merely photocopying ballots will be disqualified for failing to be sufficiently innovative. (Apparently I cast an absentee ballot last year, as someone knew I had a membership but wasn't able to attend...)

[ross-smith.livejournal.com]

I recall a magazine competition many years ago that occasionally gave an extra award for the most creative gaming of the rules; they called it the Grudging Fudging Award.