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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, @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.