Chengdu Worldcon co-Hugo Administrator Dave McCarty told Facebook readers on June 9 that “Voting should open at the end of June, ballot announcement will definitely happen before that.”
Discover more from File 770
Subscribe to get the latest posts to your email.
sigh
Pingback: AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: June 11, 2023 - Amazing Stories
Let’s hope.
This is so weird that it is taking this long.
It’s nice that they will announce the ballot before Hugo voting opens. Because rankung mystery finalists A, B and C will be difficult.
HugoClick
What aspects of Hugo voting are likely to cause delays? I don’t know but here’s a few things I can think of:
1. many ballots with unclear entries (eg misnamed books, authors etc) creating effort in cleaning the data so a given nominee doesn’t get split votes
2. many ballots with entries of unclear eligibility – the more eligibility issues there are the more manual effort involved
3. some sort of broader principle eligibility question e.g. is a translation from English eligible
4. finalists who are difficult to contact or unclear if they wish to be finalists
Camestros Felapton: I like all those. And as long as we’re speculating– is voting data accumulated inside or outside of China (or part in each?), and are there any legal hoops to be jumped through when co-operating across the divide?
@Camestros
1 & 2: Those happen in nomination season. It’s a headache.
I will vote like I usually do. If I am unable to read the novel that is, it is unavailable in my library or for purchase (this has happened with works which had not been published in the US by the time of Hugo voting), unavailable in English translation then I just vote on what I have read or watched.
Movies will be interesting. They seem to come out with subtitles fairly rapidly. I enjoyed Wandering Earth, for example but availability by streaming can radically vary.
being sure of voter intent and harmonizing variations in English, Chinese (Russian? Ukrainian? etc.) names and titles
problems of font and encoding in operating on such a complex multilingual data set
more EPH effects than expected due to multiple diverse fannish cohorts in multiple countries/fandoms clustering around different kinds of things or, see above, writing some of the same things differently
let’s not forget our all time favorite, the necessity of debating whether or not a finalist has violated the convention’s code of conduct
One wonders if there will be a Hugo Voter’s Packet this time around? Given the timing, it seems less than likely.
If they’ve got the data clean enough to run EPH then the results is what it is. It might engender some debate and maybe meetings about messaging but unlikely to cause an extended delay.
https://twitter.com/chengduworldcon/status/1668871213173846016 and https://www.facebook.com/chengduworldcon/posts/295814039467141 now say “Maybe one more week to go.”. The next question might be when voting ends; if it stays open until the end of September or early October, we still have a reasonable amount of time to read the finalists. (Back when the plan was to announce the finalists by the end of May, it was said voting would be open at least until the end of August.)
Pingback: Top 10 Stories of June 2023 | File 770