The thing is, a lot of folks are saying SFWA is broken. But none of them seem willing to try to fix it by running a different sort of slate at a time when people would likely be very open to it.
People were saying SFWA was broken/in a state of flux when I joined back in 1998. It's been chewing on its leg for a long time. How do you go about changing it when you're going to be confronting the same attitudes and personalities that have been keeping it on the boil for 10 years?
The thing is, I think this current election cycle, if a completely new group of people ran, they could win, if they did it right, given just how high ill feeling is running. This would be the time to give it a try, really.
But if no one tries that, we'll never know whether things could have been saved or not.
(Not that I'm saying it should be you necessarily if you don't want it to be. I'm saying that this is the time to try, if anyone is going to.)
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Date: 2007-12-01 04:52 am (UTC)People were saying SFWA was broken/in a state of flux when I joined back in 1998. It's been chewing on its leg for a long time. How do you go about changing it when you're going to be confronting the same attitudes and personalities that have been keeping it on the boil for 10 years?
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Date: 2007-12-01 05:14 am (UTC)But if no one tries that, we'll never know whether things could have been saved or not.
(Not that I'm saying it should be you necessarily if you don't want it to be. I'm saying that this is the time to try, if anyone is going to.)