{"id":13037,"date":"2015-04-14T20:56:37","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T20:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/on-the-hugo-award-hijacking\/"},"modified":"2015-04-14T20:56:37","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T20:56:37","slug":"on-the-hugo-award-hijacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/on-the-hugo-award-hijacking\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Hugo Award hijacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com\/post\/116342371458\/on-the-hugo-award-hijacking\">mostlysignssomeportents<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/413d8047f0b6e19f811c8d3b451cacfc\/tumblr_inline_nmqhoxAMbu1rkw4x1_540.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>A group of right-wing Internet users calling themselves \u201cSad Pupping\u201d<br \/>\n have hijacked the Hugo Award ballot this year, buying voter-only<br \/>\nmemberships to the World Science Fiction Convention in order to fill the<br \/>\n ballot with stories aligned with their political agenda, including one<br \/>\npublished by \u201cPatriarchy Press,\u201d calling on Gamergate supporters to join<br \/>\n in with them in seizing control of the award.<\/p>\n<p>\nGame of Thrones creator George RR Martin wrote an <a href=\"http:\/\/grrm.livejournal.com\/417125.html\">excellent series of posts<\/a><br \/>\n about the activity, which is indisputably within Hugo voting rules, but<br \/>\n which is also indisputably a shitty thing to do, and also indisputably<br \/>\nbased on easily disproved lies about an alleged takeover of the Hugo<br \/>\nAwards by \u201csocial justice warriors\u201d bent on excluding white men and<br \/>\nextolling \u201cboring literary fiction\u201d.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnother excellent post on the Sad Puppies awfulness is <a href=\"http:\/\/nielsenhayden.com\/makinglight\/archives\/016199.html#016199\">Bruce Schneier\u2019s essay<\/a> on constructing hard-to-game voting systems.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBy the way, the DVDs of Season One George RR Martin\u2019s Game of Thrones are two-thirds off right now: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00SJFV6ZG\/downandoutint-20\">DVD<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00SJFG6O2\/downandoutint-20\">Blu-Ray<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2015\/04\/13\/on-the-hugo-award-hijacking.html\"><b>Read the rest\u2026<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mostlysignssomeportents: A group of right-wing Internet users calling themselves \u201cSad Pupping\u201d have hijacked the Hugo Award ballot this year, buying voter-only memberships to the World Science Fiction Convention in order to fill the ballot with stories aligned with their political agenda, including one published by \u201cPatriarchy Press,\u201d calling on Gamergate supporters to join in with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3oh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}