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What exactly is "slate voting" or "slating" in this context? I can find this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slate_(elections) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slat

What exactly is "slate voting" or "slating" in this context? I can find this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slate_(elections) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slate_(elections) but it does not seem to apply directly.

angry_moose 3y ago
It grew out of the Sad Puppy movement a few years ago (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sad_Puppies#2015_campaign https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sad_Puppies#2015_campaign, linked to the year that was most organized and has the best description, but the whole article is worth a read) - a right wing anti-diversity voting campaign the Hugos dealt with from 2013-2017. Slating was a group of voters organizing to all vote for the same group of works (or slates).
twic 3y ago
Where a group of people all nominate the same set of candidates. The Hugo system [1] starts with nominations - every voter can nominate up to five works in each category. The six works which get nominated the most (in some sense) become the shortlist. There is then a ranked ballot vote amongst the shortlist in each category. Until 2017, nominations were evaluated by counting the number of nomination ballots that each work appeared on. A hundred people nominate a work, it scores a hundred. The thing is, there are a lot of books published every year, so there are a lot of candidates, and so nominations are quite spread out. In 2015 [2], to get to the top of the shortlist for best novel, a book needed ~400 nominations, from ~1800 ballots; for best short story, ~300 nominations, from ~1200 ballots. So if you can get together a group of 400 voters, and they all agree to nominate the same five works in each category (a slate), then you can get all of those five works onto the shortlist. 400 is not a small number, but it's no more than a third of all voters, and that third can take over the shortlist, and dominate the contest (although their nominations are quite unlikely to actually win - but it is still very annoying!). In 2017, the system was changed, to do some sort of more proportional evaluation [3] that should reduce the power of slates. Consensus seems to be that it worked. [1] https://www.thehugoawards.org/the-voting-system/ https://www.thehugoawards.org/the-voting-system/ [2] https://chaoshorizon.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/2015hugostatistics.pdf https://chaoshorizon.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/2015hugosta... [3] https://electowiki.org/wiki/E_Pluribus_Hugo https://electowiki.org/wiki/E_Pluribus_Hugo

angry_moose 3y ago

It grew out of the Sad Puppy movement a few years ago (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sad_Puppies#2015_campaign https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sad_Puppies#2015_campaign, linked to the year that was most organized and has the best description, but the whole article is worth a read) - a right wing anti-diversity voting campaign the Hugos dealt with from 2013-2017. Slating was a group of voters organizing to all vote for the same group of works (or slates).

twic 3y ago

Where a group of people all nominate the same set of candidates. The Hugo system [1] starts with nominations - every voter can nominate up to five works in each category. The six works which get nominated the most (in some sense) become the shortlist. There is then a ranked ballot vote amongst the shortlist in each category. Until 2017, nominations were evaluated by counting the number of nomination ballots that each work appeared on. A hundred people nominate a work, it scores a hundred. The thing is, there are a lot of books published every year, so there are a lot of candidates, and so nominations are quite spread out. In 2015 [2], to get to the top of the shortlist for best novel, a book needed ~400 nominations, from ~1800 ballots; for best short story, ~300 nominations, from ~1200 ballots. So if you can get together a group of 400 voters, and they all agree to nominate the same five works in each category (a slate), then you can get all of those five works onto the shortlist. 400 is not a small number, but it's no more than a third of all voters, and that third can take over the shortlist, and dominate the contest (although their nominations are quite unlikely to actually win - but it is still very annoying!). In 2017, the system was changed, to do some sort of more proportional evaluation [3] that should reduce the power of slates. Consensus seems to be that it worked. [1] https://www.thehugoawards.org/the-voting-system/ https://www.thehugoawards.org/the-voting-system/ [2] https://chaoshorizon.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/2015hugostatistics.pdf https://chaoshorizon.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/2015hugosta... [3] https://electowiki.org/wiki/E_Pluribus_Hugo https://electowiki.org/wiki/E_Pluribus_Hugo