And the bulk of the SJWs involved have no clue that their puppet master is nothing more that Tor books.
This was never about politics. It was about the riffraff challenging Tor's defacto ownership of the Hugo's.
I'm thinking about doing voting membership next year. If I do, I'm voting for quality of work and, hopefully that will align with the Puppy Slate.
And then sit back and laugh while the idiots destroy their special toy so no one else can have it.
(Unless the proposed rule changes prevent such)
New rules, whatever they end up being, cannot take effect until 2017. Two years out, per the bylaws.
Voting for what you want *IS* the Sad Puppy "slate". Has been the official position since Day 1 of SP1, three years ago. Vox Day's Rabid Puppies, this year, got marching orders to vote straight RP slate, supposedly; the SP3 people were told, "Here's what we think deserves nomination and award this year. Read everything, and vote for what you believe deserves it." It was never that all message fiction sucks - it was ALWAYS that *BAD* message fiction, message fiction for the sake of straight-left-wing-message-fiction, sucks. Right-wing too, for that matter. Give us GOOD STORIES - and if you can work a good message into that good story, more power to you!
Somehow, that became the Puppies (no distinction made between the groups) being "racist homophobic misogynist neo-Nazi reactionary extreme-right-wingers who don't care about quality but just about political ideology!!!"
Beale (Vox Day) had threatened before the vote that if No Award got slated by the CHORFs, he'd do his best to nuke the Hugos into perpetuity, No-Awarding EVERYTHING, for years. No idea if he plans to follow through. I've seen suggestions that he figure out what the CHORFs would be likely to nominate, and nominate them himself on the Rapid Puppies 2 slate, so that the CHORFs either vote for "his" nominated candidates, or they nuke their own preferred winners.
The SP4 campaign ("Sad Puppies 4 - The Embiggening") is spinning up now, headed by 3 women (at least one of whom is a Hispanic immigrant), prepping for next year's nominations and voting under the same sort of program as SP1-3 - read it all and vote for what you liked. I plan to participate again. The CHORFs did *EXACTLY* what the Sad Puppies predicted they'd try - burn it down rather than see deserving candidates who did not toe their line win (they No-Awarded categories to deny deserving female candidates a Hugo because those candidates were supported by the SPs). Toni Weiskopff, one of those wrongly denied a well-deserved award, was inspired to WALK OUT OF THE CEREMONY because of the childish and unprofessional antics on stage by WorldCon, and I really can't blame her one bit. So the SPs intend to get out the vote even MORE.
I'm thinking that the CHORFs really did bite off more than they can chew. Either they acknowledge that bad message fiction is NOT deserving of something with the prestige of a Hugo, and that fandom is not just that tiny little clique of several hundred people who run WorldCon and pass the awards around between favored (Tor) candidates, or they nuke EVERY category into the ground themselves to keep us wrongfen from having wrongfun. And then we buy the books and watch the movies we like anyways, and their people get to brag about having their award-winning books ranking in the 2.5 millionth-place on Amazon.
I am a fan. My voice has a place in the Hugos. They can acknowledge that, or they can try to shut me and those like me out, and relegate themselves to (further) obscurity rather than improve their relevance in the modern market.
