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Jan. 23rd, 2024 05:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anghraineI'm appalled about the Hugo Award situation, and sorry for people who were arbitrarily declared ineligible and for the winners who now have to doubt the entire process that got them their awards.
But also, it's a little bit funny that literally the same people who were throwing absolute tantrums over AO3 users joking about winning a fraction of a Hugo and breathing down the OTW's neck about it are now wringing their hands about how nobody has any ability to do anything, now or ever, about a Hugo Award when the vote calculations are pretty blatantly fraudulent.
Like, it's critically important that the Hugo Award trademark be protected from random AO3 users. But also there's no intention or possibility of protecting it, actually. Um???
But also, it's a little bit funny that literally the same people who were throwing absolute tantrums over AO3 users joking about winning a fraction of a Hugo and breathing down the OTW's neck about it are now wringing their hands about how nobody has any ability to do anything, now or ever, about a Hugo Award when the vote calculations are pretty blatantly fraudulent.
Like, it's critically important that the Hugo Award trademark be protected from random AO3 users. But also there's no intention or possibility of protecting it, actually. Um???
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on 2024-01-24 10:22 pm (UTC)Earlier, I was thinking of possibly getting a membership for the Seattle Worldcon (I live in the same state and it will probably never get closer to home for me), but it's impossible to support them as things are.