You aren't the first person to propose such drastic changes, but I'll warn you that trying to re-split BDP is unlikely to have enough votes to even get considered, let alone passed. (The Business Meeting can and does kill proposals without debate if 2/3 of the people there don't even want to talk about it by the process known as Objection to Consideration.)
Trying to split things by series/standalone has other problems. What if a movie comes out and wins a Standalone Hugo, and then they announce that the sequel is under production. Do we go back and strip the Hugo from the first movie because it's no longer standalone?
Dramatic Presentation was originally given to entire series — go look at the history — but in the 1960s the members decided that they wanted to award individual stories, not series as a whole.
Keep thinking about it. You'll probably find that fixing one problem creates another. Remember my warning about toothpaste tubes.
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timeasmymeasure
Re: Tinkering With BDP
Date: 2011-09-02 08:10 pm (UTC)Trying to split things by series/standalone has other problems. What if a movie comes out and wins a Standalone Hugo, and then they announce that the sequel is under production. Do we go back and strip the Hugo from the first movie because it's no longer standalone?
Dramatic Presentation was originally given to entire series — go look at the history — but in the 1960s the members decided that they wanted to award individual stories, not series as a whole.
Keep thinking about it. You'll probably find that fixing one problem creates another. Remember my warning about toothpaste tubes.