Not something I weigh in on often, but this is of some concern. The first question is why they felt a need to raise it at all -- the second is why just as Hugo voting opens?
I suspect the answer to the 2nd is that whoever figured Jan 1 wasn't thinking about when Hugo's open, but rather that Jan 1 is an easy date for folks to remember. It's unfortunate as hell and I would hope Montreal thinks about that as they set up their dates.
I'm more concerned, however, as Deb is, about why this happened at all.
As Deb, the idea of a voting-only membership offends me -- and not only because I'm enough of a historian to be bothered by what I see as a poll tax -- but perhaps some regulation more than currently exists over Supporting Memberships is in order to consider.
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I suspect the answer to the 2nd is that whoever figured Jan 1 wasn't thinking about when Hugo's open, but rather that Jan 1 is an easy date for folks to remember. It's unfortunate as hell and I would hope Montreal thinks about that as they set up their dates.
I'm more concerned, however, as Deb is, about why this happened at all.
As Deb, the idea of a voting-only membership offends me -- and not only because I'm enough of a historian to be bothered by what I see as a poll tax -- but perhaps some regulation more than currently exists over Supporting Memberships is in order to consider.
Something to think about.