234 signatures - we are in sight of reaching the BIG SYMBOLIC MILESTONE!

Folks,

We have reached 234 signatures, so we are less than 20 signatures away from the reaching the symbolic milestone I am dying to reach, though as my "joke petition" has its annual seasonal closure in a few days, I let that one pull ahead in signature count and will let that one reach the 250-signature milestone first (we were running neck-and-neck with it).

I am actually not surprised to see a couple of users from other countries stumble across this petition, as they too face the same struggles when trying to run cross-border campaigns as we do in the UK. All of our signatures from outside the UK have come in unpromoted, which is the core argument of the campaign as it I selected the 'Global' scope option for the campaign, the paid ads would still result in 99% UK signatures. The only difference between a 'Local' campaign and a 'Global' campaign under the current system is not the geographic breakdown, but the paid ad delivery time with 'Local' campaigns finishing their paid runs faster.

The issue is not that the platform uses geofencing, but the platform inappropriately uses geofencing by restricting 'Global' campaigns while simultaneously failing to properly geofence 'Local' campaigns to the audience who need it most.

My "Alamo" campaign hypothetical example:

As a hypothetical example, let's say that the council of San Antonio, TX, wanted to demolish the Alamo (it isn't going to happen in reality) and use the land to build the brand new Davy Crockett Sports Arena to bring in new jobs with a "Save the Alamo!" campaign. This is a hyper-local issue and the paid ads would strictly need to be geofenced to change.org users in the city of San Antonio or Bexar County (using my proposed Local scope's post/zip code setting or county setting). Ads most not be shown to platform users in Houston, Dallas or Sydney who have no connection to the cause however if a user in Houston, Dallas or Sydney has a friend or family living in San Antonio, TX, then they still should be allowed to sign the "Save the Alamo!" petition if they stumble across it in the search bar or if they are shared the link either by email or social media.

To clarify, under my proposed new system, 'Local' and 'National' petitions can still be signed at ANY TIME by external sharing or by looking it up in the search bar  (even while paid ads are running and are not shown on the advertising "promoted petitions" homepages to users in Houston, Dallas or Sydney).

The "UK law" example:

Lets say a user in the UK wanted to use change.org to change a UK law, such as allowing terminally ill people at any age to access their state pension, then those users should be able to select "National - United Kingdom" under my proposed system from the drop-down menu, then that's when paid ads SHOULD be geofenced to UK users in order for that campaign to gain enough support to win. In this instance, geofencing should be locked to UK users because the campaign creator selected "National - United Kingdom" from the drop-down menu that my proposed 'National' scope gives, NOT because of their UK IP address or the fact they paid in GBP.

The 'National' scope system under my proposed system should include a state or region option (i.e. Texas or Scotland) and the 'Local' scope should give a post/zip code option and a county option to distribute the paid ads to.

Although this is a "protest petition" against the very host site this petition lives on, I have created it for the benefit of all change.org users (not just myself) and for future users who are yet to create a change.org account and explore the platform to create campaigns about issues they care about, this is why this is the campaign of campaigns!

You don't sign the petition, you sign the campaign because every supporter becomes a member of a large campaign by clicking the 'Sign' button.

Ro---- Miles Ash----- (Mr. Easter)