Re: Today's interesting development

In article <v7olas$dc9$1@reader1.panix.com>,
James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:

In article <v7okdl$197vv$1@dont-email.me>,
Ahasuerus  <ahasuerus@email.com> wrote:

On 7/22/2024 9:19 PM, James Nicoll wrote:

In article <v7mr1t$s1a5$1@dont-email.me>,
Ahasuerus  <ahasuerus@email.com> wrote:

On 7/22/2024 4:01 PM, James Nicoll wrote:

Someone spent $19,000 dollars to stuff the Hugo Award ballot
box in a way that seems either very, very ineptly or in a
manner calculated to be spotted.
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https://glasgow2024.org/hugo-awards/statement-22-july-2024/
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Now, I do recall a case in the 1980s, I think, where an exuberant
fan tried to buy a story he liked a Hugo, using consecutively
numbered traveller's checks to buy memberships. So people do
fuck up comprehensively. But it could also be someone really dislikes
Finalist A and wanted to make them look bad.

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Or -- conceivably -- someone who dislikes the Hugo award as an institution.

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What a half-assed attack, then.

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Perhaps it was more along the lines of George Bernard Shaw's dictum
about wrestling with pigs:
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"You both get dirty and the pig likes it."
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Or "If we throw enough mud at the wall some of it will stick".
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Just at this second, it looks like it might be SF's version of the
Black Sox Scandal.
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Which is to say, some gambler dropped 20K trying to fix a contest on
which he was voting.