Ways to handle censorship if someone asks you on the DL to censor your award. 1. “No, this isn’t in our rules. Is this going to be a problem? I can let the community know that the Hugo rules aren’t going to be applied if so.”

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4. Work to rule. “Hi, we’re really trying to follow the rules you’ve given us, but in order to do so, we need you to fill out the following 27 forms so that we can be sure to apply the proper nuance. We will send our follow up questions once these are received.”

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2. Happy incompetence: “Hey, we combed everyone’s social media and read all the books, and guess what? We are in luck, looks like everyone should meet the standard! We did our best!”

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Cancelled by me going Chinese people should write these things, not a well-meaning Westerner.

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