tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323383105577553414.post548120670457707537..comments2024-02-24T00:25:39.415-08:00Comments on Examined Worlds: Puppies as Conspiracy Theorists: Why the Sad/Rabid Puppies Lost and Why This is Good for Science FictionEthanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13490888839784651097noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323383105577553414.post-89119116598596229792015-10-15T23:09:53.316-07:002015-10-15T23:09:53.316-07:00Thanks for the comment. Yeah, the Puppy business ...Thanks for the comment. Yeah, the Puppy business has been annoying. After writing this post, I think I'm done with it for awhile, hopefully forever...Ethanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13490888839784651097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323383105577553414.post-59186178929168398612015-10-13T05:00:58.414-07:002015-10-13T05:00:58.414-07:00Well written, explained....i have been avoiding th...Well written, explained....i have been avoiding this entire puppy business simply because I find it all so completely annoying. Can we all just enjoy reading books. And let me also add, authors need to chill out a little regarding reviews. Reviews are going to happen, some people are not going to enjoy it. And one more thing.... haha....Twitter is a horrid space. I think I am done! hahaGirls Guide to SciFihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06194691875062761067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323383105577553414.post-48419993323760961522015-09-10T07:12:10.349-07:002015-09-10T07:12:10.349-07:00Thanks for the comment! I like the Hugos, but you...Thanks for the comment! I like the Hugos, but you do have to realize that they are basically a popularity contest decided by a relatively small subset of fans, although I would argue that this subset is more representative than many people think (including the Puppies). I use the Hugos to get a sense of what fans are talking about and as a guide to stuff I might like, but I never thought of them as a guide to The Best SF Ever. That said, I do think this whole tiresome affair is important in terms of the future of fandom, which is why I wrote about it, I guess!Ethanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13490888839784651097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323383105577553414.post-64965791365988303252015-09-09T20:13:57.762-07:002015-09-09T20:13:57.762-07:00Nice puppy photo! The foil made me laugh! I'm ...Nice puppy photo! The foil made me laugh! I'm way behind on my blog reading as you can tell. This is a nice, balanced account of the whole affair, and you bring up points that I've long abandoned from being distracted by all this drama. I'm usually pretty critical of the Hugos. When I first started paying attention I noticed right away the tendency to reward charismatic authors with active social media platforms. It's a hard truth to ignore, it deserves criticism, but the Pups lose all credibility when they link their theories to the "SJW cabal" and then revise scifi history with myths about "the good old days."<br /><br />I wish these folks would shut up so I can go back to being an obnoxious critic of the Hugos. Yeah, I want my faves to win, but I also get how fandom works and what a tiny voting pool this is. And while I do criticize some of what the pups call "SJW" selections, it's certainly not because I want to read more homogenous scifi.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323383105577553414.post-66707181539550320502015-09-02T11:58:55.140-07:002015-09-02T11:58:55.140-07:00Here's a pretty thorough account of the whole ...Here's a pretty thorough account of the whole PuppyGate business, or thorough enough for people who are A. Not writing dissertations about PuppyGate, and/or B. Want to move on with their lives. http://io9.com/the-final-lessons-from-this-years-hugo-awards-clusterfr-1727999689?utm_expid=66866090-48.Ej9760cOTJCPS_Bq4mjoww.0Ethanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13490888839784651097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323383105577553414.post-11979829688052958612015-08-30T19:43:24.023-07:002015-08-30T19:43:24.023-07:00Let me clarify my points about the value of divers...Let me clarify my points about the value of diversity. There's a difference between "diversity is a good thing" and "diversity is the only thing" where the latter means something like "we should give awards to hack writers just because they're diverse." Usula Le Guin didn't win Hugos because she's a woman, but because lots of Hugo voters liked her work (and, in my humble opinion, she's a genius). I see no reason to think the basic situation of "most Hugo voters like x and x wins" has changed. For the record, I didn't really like last year's winning book by Ann Leckie (http://examinedworlds.blogspot.com/2015/02/review-of-ancillary-justice-by-ann.html), but I don't see any reason to resort to conspiracies to account for the fact that I disagreed with the winner in 2014 or any other year for which I had a dissenting opinion. <br /><br />To say that I think diversity should be encouraged means that I think we should provide verbal encouragement and support for new authors and we should all try to read more work by different types of people. Everyone should be given opportunities to become good enough to someday be in the position to win awards. But my pro-diversity position is most definitely NOT the view that substandard, low quality work should win a bunch of awards merely because it happens to be written by the right kind of people. That would be ridiculous.<br /><br />I agree that an SJW Conspiracy would be a bad thing. I simply see no reason to believe such a thing exists.Ethanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13490888839784651097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323383105577553414.post-50147047172643849662015-08-30T12:46:25.498-07:002015-08-30T12:46:25.498-07:00Who really runs the Hugos? A hilarious answer: ht...Who really runs the Hugos? A hilarious answer: http://dreamcafe.com/2015/08/29/who-really-runs-the-hugo-awards/Ethanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13490888839784651097noreply@blogger.com