{"id":1401,"date":"2015-04-24T11:58:22","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T17:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/?p=1401"},"modified":"2016-09-20T23:18:48","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T05:18:48","slug":"making-light-discussing-specific-changes-to-the-hugo-nomination-election-another-guest-post-by-bruce-schneier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2015\/04\/making-light-discussing-specific-changes-to-the-hugo-nomination-election-another-guest-post-by-bruce-schneier\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Light: Discussing Specific Changes to the Hugo Nomination Election: Another Guest Post By Bruce Schneier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nielsenhayden.com\/makinglight\/archives\/016206.html\">Making Light<\/a> has been discussing ways to resolve the DoS attack on the Hugos by the Rabid Puppies. This discussion is focused on the nominating process.<\/p>\n<p>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. \u00a0In Schneier&#8217;s formula, x=4, y=2, z=5.<\/p>\n<p>There are a number of weighting methods described in Option 3 and discussed in detail in the comments. \u00a0I am still open to which method is best but I am starting with Option 3d. \u00a0I don&#8217;t think there actually is a &#8220;best&#8221;, but there may be a preferred method for administration and management.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/nielsenhayden.com\/makinglight\/archives\/016206.html<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2015\/04\/making-light-discussing-specific-changes-to-the-hugo-nomination-election-another-guest-post-by-bruce-schneier\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Making Light: Discussing Specific Changes to the Hugo Nomination Election: Another Guest Post By Bruce Schneier<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fandom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NpF-mB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1403,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions\/1403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}