Beset From All Sides

[kevin_standlee]

Some of you who read this LJ may be interested in the discussion happening on this item on SF Awards Watch, where I'm informed that WSFS is doing a bunch of things I don't think we're doing (such as claiming that the Hugo Awards represent All of Fandom), and we're certainly mis-administering the Hugo Awards, and that it's a terrible shame that we actually charge anything to vote, since Poll Taxes Are Evil, but also awful that we let the members make the nominations, because Voters Have Terrible Taste.

As I pointed out in one of my comments, I'm usually beset from all sides. I'm a bomb-throwing lunatic who would Destroy As All according to the conservatives, and a Hidebound Old Fogey according to the radicals.

If you want to comment, I'd prefer you do so over there, not here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Of course it's silly. It's trademark law. This is a reasonably clear explanation of one of the problems.

That it's silly, though, doesn't mean one gets to ignore it on that ground.

— CEP