Making Light has been discussing ways to resolve the DoS attack on the Hugos by the Rabid Puppies. This discussion is focused on the nominating process.

I am leaning towards allowing the nominator to nominate up to 4 works in a category, throw away the nominating ballot once 2 of the 4 have made the Final Ballot and putting the top 5 works on the voting ballot.  In Schneier’s formula, x=4, y=2, z=5.

There are a number of weighting methods described in Option 3 and discussed in detail in the comments.  I am still open to which method is best but I am starting with Option 3d.  I don’t think there actually is a “best”, but there may be a preferred method for administration and management.

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