I guess that "sociopath" isn't the technically correct term anymore; however, it would seem to me that a sociopath would by his very nature be unable to recognize the pathology he exhibits. By his own internal definition, he is "normal" and everyone else is a "cardboard cutout," or as I put it, a "non-player character."
The best thing we can do is to publicize his words so that people can see what sort of person managed to manipulate a few hundred people who I do not think all meant to be bad actors and are only now realizing that they were fighting against a conspiracy that never existed. The biggest harm done to the Hugos in the medium term is that in self-defense we may see the "slates" that they claim existed start actually existing, at least next year before any significant counter-measures to defeat organized bloc voting can be brought to bear.
I still think some of my "non-destructive" ideas (that don't require a constitutional amendment and thus I'm prepared to talk about because I wouldn't need to preside over the amendment debate this year) are good, but they've been rejected as too revolutionary or too much work for the administrator. While I have been an Admin, the last time was 2002 and in none of the three cases did I have to do the real heavy lifting. (Other than literally, when my wife and I humped the trophies up to the top floor of the San Jose Civic Auditorium and Lisa assembled them herself, then guarded them in an un-air-conditioned room while I hunted up someone who had the keys so we could lock them away.)
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The best thing we can do is to publicize his words so that people can see what sort of person managed to manipulate a few hundred people who I do not think all meant to be bad actors and are only now realizing that they were fighting against a conspiracy that never existed. The biggest harm done to the Hugos in the medium term is that in self-defense we may see the "slates" that they claim existed start actually existing, at least next year before any significant counter-measures to defeat organized bloc voting can be brought to bear.
I still think some of my "non-destructive" ideas (that don't require a constitutional amendment and thus I'm prepared to talk about because I wouldn't need to preside over the amendment debate this year) are good, but they've been rejected as too revolutionary or too much work for the administrator. While I have been an Admin, the last time was 2002 and in none of the three cases did I have to do the real heavy lifting. (Other than literally, when my wife and I humped the trophies up to the top floor of the San Jose Civic Auditorium and Lisa assembled them herself, then guarded them in an un-air-conditioned room while I hunted up someone who had the keys so we could lock them away.)