{"id":19794,"date":"2015-04-24T11:49:44","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T18:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=19794"},"modified":"2015-04-24T11:49:44","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T18:49:44","slug":"on-hugos-and-the-no-award-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=19794","title":{"rendered":"On Hugos and the No-Award Option"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19795\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/cardsharps-by-Caravaggio.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19795\" src=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/cardsharps-by-Caravaggio-590x426.jpg\" alt=\"The rules don&#039;t explicitly forbid it!\" width=\"590\" height=\"426\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19795\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/cardsharps-by-Caravaggio-590x426.jpg 590w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/cardsharps-by-Caravaggio-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/cardsharps-by-Caravaggio-940x679.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19795\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The rules don&#8217;t explicitly forbid it!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Winning the Hugo requires winning a <strong>two<\/strong>-stage process of voting. First a work is one of five winners of the nomination stage, and then one of those five wins the final stage. <\/p>\n<p>The Puppy-nominated works did not legitimately win the first round of voting; therefore it is impossible for them to legitimately win the Hugos. Therefore, I intend to vote &#8220;no award&#8221; over any slate-nominated work, including works I personally enjoyed.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine a race that\u2019s in two stages. In stage one, the athletes run an obstacle course, each in their own lane, leaping over hurdles. The athletes who make it through the obstacle course fastest then compete in a footrace to determine the winner.<\/p>\n<p>The Puppies noticed that there\u2019s no rule explicitly forbidding spectators knocking down hurdles, and so they knocked down the hurdles in their favorite athlete\u2019s lanes. And of course, those athletes ran the obstacle course the fastest.<\/p>\n<p>Now we\u2019re at the start line of the second stage. And now the puppies are telling me that <em>how <\/em>these athletes ended up reaching the second stage of the race doesn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n<p>With all due respect, <em>ARE YOU FRAKKING KIDDING ME?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winning the Hugo requires winning a two-stage process of voting. First a work is one of five winners of the nomination stage, and then one of those five wins the final stage. The Puppy-nominated works did not legitimately win the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=19794\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19796,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19794\/revisions\/19796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}