" If it is true that any of our pruchases have anything to do with the funding for the AOY then I would have to say that I wouldn't want that man to have Jack Shit if it mean a penny needed for it had to come out of my pocket." Then you should have voted for who you wanted to win, and encouraged your freinds to vote too. "it was obvious to most everyone that his main interest was really the attention he was getting from all of it" I thought that was part of the purpose of this site, to gain exposure for it's members. "Well, I think it's sad that the vote was taken away from the community but I hoestly can't blame them for wanting to. " Then they never should have put it up for a vote in the first place. Once a contest has been started- then changed mid stride- it is definately borderline illegal. And nothing wrong with asking the authorities to look into this, just to make sure it's on the up and up. "How are we to even know if the figures in the poll were even acurate?" Last years AOY was surrounded in controversy of just that nature- it was alledged that a member was winning the AOY through multiple accounts and clones, then the poll was pulled everyones votes nulled and redistributed to however the PTB decided to redistribute them (i dont remember exactly how they decided to redistribute them but i can look it up). SO if last year is any example- yes they can track and find ut if it's clone accounts etc. Rosity just needs to quit having contests, They don't have a clue how to run them. I don't think i can remember one where there was no controversy surrounding it.