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Outrage Season
We have finally got the nomination statistics for the 2023 Hugos, and understandably there is a great deal of concern being express. Some very strange things have gone on. Believe me, I'm not happy either. Fairly inevitably there are plenty of people who know little about how WSFS works who assume that there must be some overriding authority who could, and should, have prevented Chengdu from doing what they have done.
@CherylMorgan maybe it’s time that there is. Certainly, they should be required to adhere to the transparency and open meeting discussions that kept the Hugos from being politically derailed previously.
@LAGilman Kevin and I have been advocating that for some time, but the people who run Worldcons are very resistant to the idea.
@alanfleming@mastodon.me.uk@CherylMorgan @LAGilman I'm interested to hear how such transparency would have worked in interaction with an autocratic state.
Oh, wait.
@alanfleming @CherylMorgan Simple. If somebody is determined to be ineligible, you say so, upfront, before the voting begins. And you give a reason.
And if the reason is, “the host country ‘s government does not not like this particular person“ then you say that. And deal with the fallout.