The matter of deflating influence with Change.org

The Issue

We all know the frustrations that are experienced when signing many petitions/pledges.

We all know about the seemingly endless clicking when trying to sign all of our invitations to act, from friends.

We all notice the needing to click onto Change.org's home page in order to return to our invitations of action.

Also, we understand this sort of diversion can easily be subtracted from the system.

We only want to be able to return to our invitation of actions without wasting our time and energies, just so Change.org can get another click onto it's website.

Some have commented to me about meaningless petitions being past around and how that signing them weakens Change.org's influence. So does Change.org really care about the issues or does Change.org only care about how many clicks it gets on it's homepage? In addition, if such meaningless petitions hurt the influential part of Change.org, then should not those in the higher offices get this matter resolved quickly? How is it there is even a question of whether or not Change.org has a deflating issue of influence?  

 

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Update from Justin - Community Manager:

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Hey Folks,

Fantastic feedback. I'll get our UI guru to take a look at the process for invitations and post-signing workflow as soon as possible. It's an incredibly good point and something very much worth investigating.

As for the "send to editor" link - would you, as Change.org community members, be willing to act as these editors? With the community at the lead of editing each other's petitions, we can cover more petitions, more of the time. Increasing the quality of petitions is something we would love to do, and we'd love your help doing it.

If you would like to talk with me about the best way to implement this, or to be a part of the process, please don't hesitate to reply to this message, or send me an email at justin@change.org

Thanks for the feedback, we're always open ways to improve the site!!

All the best,

Justin - Change.org

 

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Chris MoorePetition Starter I am a spinal injury patient. I need to have safe access to marijuana. Marijuana is medicine and medicine of the most natural form. My doctor and I feel marijauna should and will be allowed to be prescribed to any and all individuals that feel it is the best course of action for them. We KNOW marijauna has proven itself time and time again, to be a benefit to those who rather injest marijuana instead of horrible pills that have more side effects( physical addiction, violent vommitting, horrible withdraw ) than benefits. We need to awaken the sleeping giant once again. And instead of awakening for the war effort, awakened for the end of war and prohibition. My belief is that the end of prohibition IS the end of war ( in time, as it works it's way around us) We need our voice back. We must keep up the good fight for all of us past, present, and future. FOR PEACE, GIVE LOVE, and TAKE NO SHIT FROM ANYONE!!! Gathering pro marijuana friends.
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The Issue

We all know the frustrations that are experienced when signing many petitions/pledges.

We all know about the seemingly endless clicking when trying to sign all of our invitations to act, from friends.

We all notice the needing to click onto Change.org's home page in order to return to our invitations of action.

Also, we understand this sort of diversion can easily be subtracted from the system.

We only want to be able to return to our invitation of actions without wasting our time and energies, just so Change.org can get another click onto it's website.

Some have commented to me about meaningless petitions being past around and how that signing them weakens Change.org's influence. So does Change.org really care about the issues or does Change.org only care about how many clicks it gets on it's homepage? In addition, if such meaningless petitions hurt the influential part of Change.org, then should not those in the higher offices get this matter resolved quickly? How is it there is even a question of whether or not Change.org has a deflating issue of influence?  

 

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Update from Justin - Community Manager:

---------------------

Hey Folks,

Fantastic feedback. I'll get our UI guru to take a look at the process for invitations and post-signing workflow as soon as possible. It's an incredibly good point and something very much worth investigating.

As for the "send to editor" link - would you, as Change.org community members, be willing to act as these editors? With the community at the lead of editing each other's petitions, we can cover more petitions, more of the time. Increasing the quality of petitions is something we would love to do, and we'd love your help doing it.

If you would like to talk with me about the best way to implement this, or to be a part of the process, please don't hesitate to reply to this message, or send me an email at justin@change.org

Thanks for the feedback, we're always open ways to improve the site!!

All the best,

Justin - Change.org

 

avatar of the starter
Chris MoorePetition Starter I am a spinal injury patient. I need to have safe access to marijuana. Marijuana is medicine and medicine of the most natural form. My doctor and I feel marijauna should and will be allowed to be prescribed to any and all individuals that feel it is the best course of action for them. We KNOW marijauna has proven itself time and time again, to be a benefit to those who rather injest marijuana instead of horrible pills that have more side effects( physical addiction, violent vommitting, horrible withdraw ) than benefits. We need to awaken the sleeping giant once again. And instead of awakening for the war effort, awakened for the end of war and prohibition. My belief is that the end of prohibition IS the end of war ( in time, as it works it's way around us) We need our voice back. We must keep up the good fight for all of us past, present, and future. FOR PEACE, GIVE LOVE, and TAKE NO SHIT FROM ANYONE!!! Gathering pro marijuana friends.

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Ben Rattray
Ben Rattray
Founder and CEO of Change.org.

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Petition created on June 26, 2010