I guess the question for me is if they do know what they're doing, and have all this experience, why this year did they choose to override prior / established procedures to remove certain pieces of literature from the voting process? Why is this the only year with these apparent issues, when they say the prior number of years don't have these same issues? I could understand that more if it was new people, but existing people, who have run it for years, suddenly do things differently one year and breach their own regulations?NOTE: People who are being told that they're awful, incompetent, that they and the thousands of people they know or know of are corrupt . . . decades of work, on their own time and own dime, and they don't matter until the one year something doesn't work.
They're people. People get hurt. They lose their temper. Dave McCarthy is impatient, gets fed up, and spouts before he thinks. I happen to be calm, patient, and I spend a lot of time and energy writing, talking with people. But my patience isn't endless, then I explode. I just don't say anything until I can keep my feelings in check long enough to respond. (Fortunately I have a lot of non-Worldcon friends I can blow up to.) No responses needed, folks just appear to need more data about Worldcon runners.
If it is all fine and just a one off, why did WIP censure Dave McCarthy / others for actions undertaken - and not just public statements but 'actions undertaken by the administration committee'? Why did a couple of them end up resigning if it is all just ?
Unless I'm misreading you, and you're saying that yes 2023's one was a scandal / issue, but it is a one off, and not some ongoing conspiracy as such, in which case I apologise.