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Hugo awards organisers reveal thousands spent on fraudulent votes
- bell-cot 2y agoThe Hugos have had a number of problems in the past decade: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_awards#Since_2000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_awards#Since_2000
- the_why_of_y 2y agoIndeed, one wonders which adjective the puppies in this latest effort would prefer.
- readthenotes1 2y agoNot prestigious anymore
- abc123abc123 2y agoI think the Hugos are a thing of the past. I follow the Prometheus awards instead (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_Award https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_Award). Hugos have become a joke.
- daghamm 2y agoA ccording to Wikipedia this is a right-libertarian science fiction award run by an activist who also happens to have won four of the awards so far. Does that look better to you?
- a-french-anon 2y agoAt least, the bias is overt here. And winning four times in 42 years and almost as many editions isn't a conclusive proof of vote tampering, in my opinion.
- daghamm 2y agoNobody has won more times
- number6 2y agoThere are some books in the list of nominees and winners that are in deed good books. Lots of awards gone to Cory Doctorow... Well, in the end you don't have to decide. Just watch both list and pick the books that speak to your taste.
- jsnell 2y agoDiscussion of original announcement; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41039644 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41039644
- daghamm 2y agoThat 10% and around 400 votes is very close to previous campaigns to vote out certain authors. It just crazy to see one failed author spend much time and resources fighting against people he probably never have met.
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- bitshiftfaced 2y agoWhen comparing history's greatest chess players, people have looked to using relative strength measures like Elo. A newer approach is to use superhuman bots like Stockfish and directly evaluate each player's moves. I wonder how long until someone applies this idea to evaluating books, TV, and film. The most controversial part of it will be how to operationalize whether one book is "better", but I'm leaning towards the idea that this approach would actually be pretty helpful in finding good books to read.