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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 1690903" data-attributes="member: 177">As I understand it, there are not "various levels of voters".   There are two different levels of con membership that allow you a vote.  And you must have that membership prior to a certain date if you wish to vote.  But once you have the vote, it is like everyone else's votes.  There are not levels of votes of which I'm aware.This is true.  I didn't say it was.  I said that if GenCon wanted a broader awards system, they'd need to set up something like the Hugos, because EN World is not respected for it's expertise in the broader realm.  Simplicity didn't enter into it <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Not quite correct, as given in your quote.In order to nominate, you need to either have a membership to the WorldCon at which the award will be given, or had one to the previous WorldCon.In order to make a final vote, you need to have a membership to the WorldCon at which the award will be given.  This year, final voting closed on July 31st, iirc.  Just a month before the con.  So, you needed to have your membership a whole whopping month beforehand to vote.  That's not so bad.Compare to the Ennies - voting for the nomination panel happened when?  How long before the con will final voting occur?Fine.  So GenCon won't have a solid broad awards program soon.  That doesn't bother me.</blockquote>

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