You're quite right. She may have only been paying attention since 2005 or maybe 2002 -- and in those years, there was a Best Web Site category (as you know, it was the Special Category added by those two Worldcons), and she assumed that there was always a Web Site category or something like that.
She also wrote: "Why is Locus competing against fiction magazines in the first place? Why not put them in the "Best Related Publication" category?" This was a follow-up to someone's suggestion that Best Related Book be broadened to include "non-fiction magazines," to which I asked "who decided in which category the work belongs."
I pointed out that historically, fiction magazines in Best Semiprozine have been relatively exceptional (although not unheard-of), and that she was actually suggesting that we needed a new category just for magazines that pay less-than-SFWA rates, but more than zero.
I do hope that she unhides the post so that people can see it. If she thinks I'm the SMOF she annoyed, she's wrong. I'm not annoyed. Bemused slightly, perhaps, but not annoyed.
And heck, I don't really want to chase people away who are trying to be involved with the Hugo Awards. I want them to know how they work and I want them to participate if they are interested. Unfortunately, I fear that I've managed to scare someone away instead.
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She also wrote: "Why is Locus competing against fiction magazines in the first place? Why not put them in the "Best Related Publication" category?" This was a follow-up to someone's suggestion that Best Related Book be broadened to include "non-fiction magazines," to which I asked "who decided in which category the work belongs."
I pointed out that historically, fiction magazines in Best Semiprozine have been relatively exceptional (although not unheard-of), and that she was actually suggesting that we needed a new category just for magazines that pay less-than-SFWA rates, but more than zero.
I do hope that she unhides the post so that people can see it. If she thinks I'm the SMOF she annoyed, she's wrong. I'm not annoyed. Bemused slightly, perhaps, but not annoyed.
And heck, I don't really want to chase people away who are trying to be involved with the Hugo Awards. I want them to know how they work and I want them to participate if they are interested. Unfortunately, I fear that I've managed to scare someone away instead.