Kevin Standlee: Fandom Is My Way of Life

I'd be a lot more sympathetic to a "they'll complain no matter what you do" argument if it weren't accompanied by what appears to be a toxic combination of not bothering to inform people of these strange foreign customs and a condescending exasperation that they don't already know them.

And, of course, your kindly after-the-explosion explanation of how these things work, buried in a 2016 LJ comment, excellent as it is, will serve as a universally available resource that no American fan planning to attend some future European Worldcon will have any excuse not to have read.