Without social media, if I don’t chip in, my signature count gets STUCK!

We have reached 115 signatures thanks to the existence of change.org’s chip-in tool, though if it didn’t exist I would have absolutely no supporters backing this cause and the petition starter is NOT a supporter!

change.org’s chip-in tool is NOT supplementary, it is my ONLY lifeline in order for my campaign to get seen, unless I am lucky enough to receive organic signatures through my email updates, which is extremely rare. Because I don’t have social media, I can’t easily reach milestones like 100 signatures (hence it took over two months of hard work just to reach this milestone) and because I mistakenly set the scope of this petition to ‘National’ instead of ‘Local’, it took over two weeks just to reach 5 signatures, whereas users with social media can reach thousands of signatures within days for free!

I am demanding that the platform formally acknowledge that not all creators have external social media pages, with my only social media account being my change.org account itself. 

Much like the ‘chip-in’ tool is currently, sharing should be an supplementary/optional tool for users with social media pages and the platform should stop unfairly keep relying on users and forcing them to share their campaigns.

While I did manage to run a successful campaign on the platform finishing with a grand total of 1,569 signatures, I had to post regular updates due to my lack of social media and was often forced to wait days to post an update in order for the update to trigger an email to supporters due to the unfair three email per week limit. I did successfully get my supporters to share the campaign on social media on my behalf and chip in because it became a trending topic, however my campaign won in part because of the existence of another campaign on the platform for the exact same cause which was only luck. It was only luck that the campaign was about a strictly British cause, therefore I got all the local signatures which I needed for the campaign to win by chance, not by design and the campaign would have failed had I launched it from the United States or Australia, though I did end up with five international supporters with the locations being Belarus, Iraq, Germany, India and Bulgaria. 

Other improvements I would like to see on the platform are as follows:

• For the platform to automatically notify creators before the platform automatically closes a petition after long periods of inactivity (because I run multiple campaigns on the platform simultaneously, I often have to manually close those campaigns I am not currently working on out of the fear of the platform automatically closing the campaign!

• For the "Declare Victory" tool to be irreversible, so that creators cannot change a campaign's status after victory is declared.

• For there to be a "Campaign Failed" option if a campaign quite clearly fails to achieve its goal, so users can select that option instead of "Petition Closed" if the campaign fails to achieve its goal.

Much like my main Easter date campaign, this is also a multi-cause platform improvement campaign  with the requests being much more than scrapping geofencing on global campaigns plus the three email per week limit.

When a campaign is closed, the campaign page should read for example "this campaign has 342 supporters" instead of "this petition had 342 supporters" as closed petitions can be reopened and the past tense "had" should only be used on the "Campaign Failed" option. change.org should also STOP sending email verification codes and just let users log in with their passwords.

I do not have social media for two reasons, firstly despite my age (33), due to my own safety as I am on the autistic spectrum, my parents do not permit me to use such platforms and secondly, because I wish to remain semi-anonymous running multiple campaigns on the platform, though my real identity if one of the following options.

• Roland Miles Ashcroft
• Robert Miles Ashcroft
• Ronald Miles Ashcroft

• Roland Miles Ashfield
• Robert Miles Ashfield
• Ronald Miles Ashfield

• Roland Miles Ashworth
• Robert Miles Ashworth
• Ronald Miles Ashworth

I am either Roly, Robbie or Ronny!

We will close from today until Saturday 26th September to respect the hiatus of my main Easter date campaign.

Ro---- Miles Ash----- (Mr. Easter)