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Originally Posted by digamma
I get the whole authoritarian thing, and maybe it's just that, but I can't for the life of me figure out why this would upset a non-BBWA (I probably left off a few letters) so much.
Would it change your opinion if he had written a column and said that he would vote for the top ten write in submissions by his readers? In other words, is it his secrecy or the fact he crowd sourced?
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That he didn't vote ... that he handed it off to a self-selecting subset. I'd have the same opinion (presuming there wasn't an explicit permission to do so) of someone who did the same thing with a Grammy vote or an Academy Award vote, etc. (The fact I hold the subset he handed the vote off to in incredibly low regard plays a minor role at most tbh, although I'll acknowledge that it's a secondary factor)
I spent several seasons as a voter in the UPI college basketball poll back in the day. It was privilege I took very seriously, so I'm sure I'm even more offended by this to a certain extent because of that experience.