Seriously, not dissing a petition at all...it's just that approaching the artist, or writing letters to them does a lot more good than a petition here.
Not everyone WANTS to join okayplayer. It takes TIME to be involved with this website. Also, on the question of money, it takes A LOT OF IT to do an artist site. To get the Common journal going, we had to give up a quarter of our pure site staff (Brian). Who fills that office void? Who looks after the new artist, gets the freshest content, keeps the site updated, designs and changes it...etc...