Hugo Awards Disqualification Statement

Glasgow 2024, A Worldcon for our Futures, released the following statement today: In the course of tallying the votes on the final ballot for the 2024 Hugo Awards, the Glasgow 2024 Hugo Administrat…

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@Locusmag Doesn't seem to be any way to not "accept" all the cookies. You can't even read the cookie policy without accepting them, sight unseen, first! FFS!!

So I didn't read the article. These days anything without an immediately obvious "reject all" button doesn't get read.

@TimWardCam @Locusmag

This moose bit the bullet and accepted the cookies (I will now need to try and see what was set).

Gist of article: "377 votes for a single finalist were disallowed because they were clearly the result of an organised and paid-for ballot rigging campaign. As a result that finalist ("Finalist A") has not won anything. No other information will be made available for confidentiality reasons."

Looks like the Hugo committee have things well in hand.

3:O)>

@TimWardCam @Locusmag

File770 has the full statement without forcing you to accept Google's cookies.