Well Robby, I don't think you really want to have an explanation but here goes.

Some people have minds of their own and like to make decisions for themselves. Some people do not like management making choices for them. Some people actually thought that they should get to choose who the, ARTIST OF THE YEAR, for this whole 100,000 member website community, was going to be. Some people think that having the management vote for the AOY is ludicrous, when the membership is trusted to vote for the AOM, why not the AOY ?(which is much more important)

You want to trivialize this and I want to tell you why it IS worth getting steamed about. AOY does mean somthing. First of all there were monitary gains to be had and secondly, the winner, would have a nice feather in their caps. It would look really good on a resume when interviewing for a job !

This is life, why not live it