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The 75th World Science Fiction Convention (commonly known as WorldCon) is being held this weekend in Helsinki, Finland. The convention is where the annual Hugo Awards are presented, and today, the convention announced the latest recipients.
This year, women almost completely swept the Hugo Awards, taking home the top prizes for literature in the science fiction community. That's particularly notable, given how the awards have been increasingly recognizing works from female and minority creators. The trend prompted a counter-movement from two group of fans, the self-described "Sad Puppies," and their alt-right equivalents, the "Rabid Puppies." These groups gamed the awards and forced a slate of nominees onto the Hugo ballot in 2015, prompting widespread backlash within the wider genre community. Another award, the Dragon, faced similar issues earlier this week when several authors asked to pull their nominations over concerns about Puppy interference and the award's integrity.
This year's sweep by female creators seems to be a strong repudiation of anti-diversity groups. 2017 also marked the year the ceremony earned its own award: a representative from the Guinness Book of World Records certified that the Hugos are the longest-running science fiction awards ever.
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday August 17 2017, @12:19PM (2 children)
I can see how you'd make that mistake, not being able to see every single moderation on the admin pages. Given enough data though, you absolutely can tell with a very high level of certainty why someone moderated a given post a certain way.
We have about half a dozen people who, if I were a tyrannical type, I would permanently mod-ban. Their moderation history is majority negative and the posts they choose to downmod all have common political positions. Strangely, they are all from the progressive camp. There literally is not a single person in the middle or on the right who abuses the system in this particular way on a regular basis, though we all have our moments.
I've done a Troll hall of fame a few times and it was met with humor and pride. Somehow I don't get the feeling that I'd get the same response if I did a Shitty Moderator hall of fame and listed the people with the highest percentage of negative moderations under their belts. Actually, I think I'll float this past the rest of the staff. We could do with some well earned humiliation as a deterrent around here.
And, yeah, plenty of my posts deserve downmodding. I don't bitch when I'm trolling and get modded Troll. I take pride in that moderation. I bitch when I say something in all sincerity that someone vehemently disagrees with and get modded Troll.
The above is not meant to stir shit up. It's simply a venting. I'm mostly happy with how our moderation system works; everyone having the ability to correct a bad downmod if they see one. Usually they do. It doesn't work for every comment but it works for enough of them.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by FakeBeldin on Thursday August 17 2017, @02:02PM (1 child)
I didn't know that. Thanks for pointing that out!
(I'd moderate your post "+1 informative", except I ran out of points for today).
That sounds like a good plan - you've got my vote.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday August 17 2017, @02:55PM
Well it's kind of a given that anyone with DB access could have that information any time they wanted. What I was specifically referring to was our "potential mod-bombs page" though. It lists everyone who's been down-modded more than three times in the past 72 hours by default and then lists who down-modded them, when, which comment, and other related shat. I check it for actual full-on mod-bombs several times a day usually (Though I almost never find any. Good work, folks.). There are like half a dozen people who show up way, way too much on the moderator column and if you click on through to the comment it's almost always something they politically disagree with.
It's just kind of discouraging at times.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.