… which I just was, Deb Geisler has a fabulous post up about the 2/3 year bidding thing. There is an unfortunate tendency amongst parts of fandom to assume that running a Worldcon is easy and that anyone without the slightest experience ought to be able to tell others how to do it. This is nonsense. If you want to know how Worldcon works, listen to people like Deb, or Kevin, who have actually chaired one.