Yeah, the balloting is open to people with Worldcon memberships, so that's attendees and those motivated enough to vote to buy a membership even if they aren't going.
I was struck at Charles Brown's death by the recurring sentiment to the effect of "fandom can be defined as the set of people who read Locus and know its importance", phrased with various nuances. That never was true for me, and I've actually been a members of Horror Writers of America on earned credits and could have joined SFWA at several points, subject to the whims of membership boundaries.
So yeah, it's really worth remembering how little of fandom at large we're talking about here. The Dead Bro Walking check-in all by itself was a large fraction of the Hugo voting number.
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Date: 2009-07-19 04:07 am (UTC)I was struck at Charles Brown's death by the recurring sentiment to the effect of "fandom can be defined as the set of people who read Locus and know its importance", phrased with various nuances. That never was true for me, and I've actually been a members of Horror Writers of America on earned credits and could have joined SFWA at several points, subject to the whims of membership boundaries.
So yeah, it's really worth remembering how little of fandom at large we're talking about here. The Dead Bro Walking check-in all by itself was a large fraction of the Hugo voting number.