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<blockquote data-quote="Autumnal" data-source="post: 9268082" data-attributes="member: 6671663"><p>McCarty did a bunch of things that are explicitly not allowed, like removing ballots suspected of doing slate voting. But what really sucks about the political dossiers his committee compiled is that they were <em>wrong</em>. Like marking fan writer Dave Weimer as suspect for having gone to Tibet, and he was declared ineligible. But he didn’t. He went to Nepal. On the other hand, Best Novel winner Ursula Vernon <em>did</em> go to Tibet a few years ago and posted very extensively about it. So the committee acted on the basis of both false positives and false negatives.</p><p></p><p>Furthermore, there’s existing software to do all the steps of vote processing, but McCarty refused to use any of it. He wrote his own. Nobody is allowed to inspect it, while alternatives are open-source and up on GitHub. And according to him, as stated in a recent-ish interview, his program generates errors in response to SQL queries. So he didn’t bother validating the results.</p><p></p><p>I’m going to pause here to let the people with database experience pick up their jaws.</p><p></p><p>We also know from Lacey’s email dump that he’s decided to wait the maximum allowed time before releasing the vote data. Everything he said after the con suggesting it was nearly ready was a replanned lie.</p><p></p><p>This is actually the major reason I no longer think (as I did at first) that there was significant Chinese effort at censoring the results. The only person who’s talked about guidance, direction, etc, from vague sources is McCarty. We know that he’s a raging narcissist, that is is lazy, and that he is blitheringly incompetent. I find it easy to believe that all his talk on the subject is pure invention because he found it exciting to LARP the role of someone in international affairs.</p><p></p><p>Obviously every conclusion must be tentative now, and I’m open to the kind of interference I suspected at first. But when you’ve got a lying incompetent narcissist at hand, may as well lather up with Occam’s shaving foam.</p><p></p><p>Anyone interested in following the story should probably be reading file770.com - host Mike Glyer has covered fandom news for decades. He provides daily news roundup, and regular commenters include interesting authors like Ursula Bernon, WSFS people, other veteran consumers, and just plain cool people. (And a few jerks, but Mike seldom lets them go on too long.) it’s one of the two places where conversation about the Puppies led directly to EPH, and whatever fixes and changes come in the next few years are being incubated there now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Autumnal, post: 9268082, member: 6671663"] McCarty did a bunch of things that are explicitly not allowed, like removing ballots suspected of doing slate voting. But what really sucks about the political dossiers his committee compiled is that they were [I]wrong[/I]. Like marking fan writer Dave Weimer as suspect for having gone to Tibet, and he was declared ineligible. But he didn’t. He went to Nepal. On the other hand, Best Novel winner Ursula Vernon [I]did[/I] go to Tibet a few years ago and posted very extensively about it. So the committee acted on the basis of both false positives and false negatives. Furthermore, there’s existing software to do all the steps of vote processing, but McCarty refused to use any of it. He wrote his own. Nobody is allowed to inspect it, while alternatives are open-source and up on GitHub. And according to him, as stated in a recent-ish interview, his program generates errors in response to SQL queries. So he didn’t bother validating the results. I’m going to pause here to let the people with database experience pick up their jaws. We also know from Lacey’s email dump that he’s decided to wait the maximum allowed time before releasing the vote data. Everything he said after the con suggesting it was nearly ready was a replanned lie. This is actually the major reason I no longer think (as I did at first) that there was significant Chinese effort at censoring the results. The only person who’s talked about guidance, direction, etc, from vague sources is McCarty. We know that he’s a raging narcissist, that is is lazy, and that he is blitheringly incompetent. I find it easy to believe that all his talk on the subject is pure invention because he found it exciting to LARP the role of someone in international affairs. Obviously every conclusion must be tentative now, and I’m open to the kind of interference I suspected at first. But when you’ve got a lying incompetent narcissist at hand, may as well lather up with Occam’s shaving foam. Anyone interested in following the story should probably be reading file770.com - host Mike Glyer has covered fandom news for decades. He provides daily news roundup, and regular commenters include interesting authors like Ursula Bernon, WSFS people, other veteran consumers, and just plain cool people. (And a few jerks, but Mike seldom lets them go on too long.) it’s one of the two places where conversation about the Puppies led directly to EPH, and whatever fixes and changes come in the next few years are being incubated there now. [/QUOTE]
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