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Yeah, there are three separate, equally-good reasons why people might give a No Award:
Because they refuse to help a campaign that is organised by people as close to pure evil as it’s possible to get.
Because they refuse to support anyone who uses bloc voting and slates to distort the awards.
And because everything put forward by either racist slate has actual negative literary merit.
Happily, at this stage, all three of those motives produce the same result. The problem will come in the nomination process next year, when people’s priorities might make some people try to create an anti-Puppy slate while other people campaign against either slate. I have no idea what we do to stop that…