gwern comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 14, chapter 82

gwern 3 Jun 2012 16:51 UTC
13 points

can put “No Award” above anything they think sufficiently underserving.

Cute story I saw 12 days ago on urth.net:

I read an interview with Roger Zelazny, and he said that the reason he called the story “No Award” was because he noticed that, since the ballots were alphabetical by author, he always wound up right before No Award. He wanted to have two “No Award”s in a row and cause confusion. Unfortunately for his dastardly plot ( :) ), it didn’t get nominated for anything.