Well, in that case, we shouldn't allow anyone on a Worldcon committee to be eligible for a Hugo Award, because after all, their position could let them somehow manipulate the results or give themselves undue publicity. And we definitely shouldn't allow anyone who is a current Worldcon Guest of Honor to be nominated for a Hugo Award, since their high-profile position with the Worldcon makes gives them excessive exposure, and that's not fair either.

And while we're at it, we probably shouldn't allow any member of the MPC to serve on a Worldcon bid committee, since after all the MPC is responsible for the Official Worldcon Web Site and we all know that manipulating the Worldcon web site could certainly change the results of the site selection.

Do you see where this goes? Everyone has a potential conflict of interest. WSFS deliberately firewalled off who is ineligible and limited it solely to the people who are actually counting the ballots and making the decisions. Not the people running the convention web site or running the Hugo Award ceremony or designing the publications or anything else, even though someone looking for a reason to be offended could find an appearance of impropriety.

I do take it personally, and I'm convinced that it's crafting of a general rule that actually only applies to one individual person because she's the "wrong sort of fan."