You’ll want to read this @howardtayler Storify on moderating convention panels.

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1. Timely, and perhaps relevant to the recent Worldcon kerfluffle.

   1. So, what DID happen at Worldcon, then? I got the impression that somebody was a sykes, to the point where people had to be uncomfortable.

      1. somebody was a sykes

         Izzat some kind of Alien Nation reference?

         1. Good GOD, man. Of COURSE it was an Alien Nation reference! Geez. 🙂

            1. Just making sure it wasn’t something even _more_ obscure!

2. It may go beyond your “no politics” filter, but…

   From my point of view, Dave Truesdale, the moderator of a panel on short form SciFi, started talking about political correctness harming the form. Some feelings were hurt. He ended up being kicked out of the conference.

   Truesdale’s comments afterwards, and audio of the event, are here:

   http://www.tangentonline.com/articles-columnsmenu-284/3227-2016-worldcon-panel-on-the-qstate-of-short-science-fictionq

   1. Ah. I had vaguely heard about the Truesdale thing; I had got the impression that other people had been acting… interestingly… at Worldcon, too.

      1. Not impossible at all, I’m not there. And some of the authors seem to be against Truesdale being kicked out of the conference, even if they probably disagree with his comments. Wouldn’t surprise me if it turned into a He said-She said kind of thing over the next few days.

      2. Evidently some SJWs made asses of themselves, but received no punishment. Which was the backdrop that made Truesdale’s ejection so notable.
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         Eh, the Hugos are dead. It’s been many years since the award was a recommendation to buy, rather than a recommendation to avoid. (But I’m kind of sorry Chuck Tingle didn’t win.)

         1. I wanted Naomi Novik’s Uprooted to win, because I read it and it was an EXTREMELY good book; but it did not.

            1. I didn’t really like that one.
               It was a great setting, and well written, but she broke my willing suspension of disbelief when the protagonist learned she had the power to bend reality to her will, and her very first reaction was to worry about what that would do to her relationships with people she hadn’t seen in months, and didn’t expect to see for years.
               I coasted along for a while, enjoying the workmanship of it with a critical eye, but any emotional investment was gone.
               I don’t think I even made it halfway through before setting it aside for something else.

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