Um, excuse me, as a new member here could someone explain to me why any of this matters? It all seems to be a bit out of hand and blown up out of all proportion.

I thought artist of the month/year was just a bit of fun???

There are apparently over 100,000 members, how many people actually take the time to vote or look at the nominations?

It doesn't seem to me anything to get steamed up about. This is called a community and unfortunately seems to be suffering from the same thing all communities do; factionalism, confrontation and disagreement.

Such is life