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[VoiceOfReasonPast]

Professional Abortionist?

[Kugelfisch]

What makes this extra fishy is that nominations to the Echo are based solely on sales.

They aren't. They are based on the top seeling chart list, which excludes Volksmusik on purpose. Otherwise it'd be Kastelruter Spasten and Napalm Duo dominating them forever.

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

Well, Volksmusik is pretty much its own separate thing, like Vocaloids. Also they would make the Echo even more völkisch

[wildmage]

Hugo's being the Oscar's of the written word is the best comparison you could come up with. Why not slap an Oprah recommended sticker while you're at it?

Besides no-self esteem rubes who need an appeal to authority, who consumes media based on some award?

[da PAC Nigguh]

Besides no-self esteem rubes who need an appeal to authority, who consumes media based on some award?

I never would have frequented The Spoony Experiment if not for that prestigious Mashable Award.

[Keith Chegwin]

I think Jerry Seinfeld actually said it all about awards

[drisko]

Hugo's being the Oscar's of the written word is the best comparison you could come up with. Why not slap an Oprah recommended sticker while you're at it?

Besides no-self esteem rubes who need an appeal to authority, who consumes media based on some award?

Here's the big difference, at some point, I was told who won the Oscars this year by someone I knew, but I can't name them because I've forgotten.

No one, ever, has told me who won a Hugo.

[pibbs]

The Hugo sounds like a participation trophy.

[Kugelfisch]

The Hugo sounds like a participation trophy.

I guess it really is. As an author you'd rather have a placing on a best-seller list and get heaps of dosh than some fuckass trophy by a bunch of faggots that does absolutely nothing.

[Keith Chegwin]

The Hugo sounds like a participation trophy.

I wouldn't say so. It's more, like I said, a giant circlejerk, like the Academy Awards. One year they gave best novel to a book about muh gender identity. Another year they gave it to a book about fairies that wasn't even science fiction. It's basically a bunch of pretentious liberal elite hipsters stroking each other off for how forward thinking and progressive they can be.

As an author you'd rather have a placing on a best-seller list and get heaps of dosh than some fuckass trophy by a bunch of faggots that does absolutely nothing.

Depends on the author. Keep in mind, you are dealing with a bunch of art hipster types, many of whom are financially secure anyway. A lot of them might value critical recognition and acceptance from peers than the 'more salted peanuts are consumed than caviar' type approach you're suggesting.