Petition updateScrap user-IP geofencing on 'Global' scope Change​.​org petitions + other design flaws!!

change.org's system is completely rigged against users who do not have social media - it's 500 day!

Ro---- Ash----- (Mr Easter!)Kingston-upon-Thames, United Kingdom
Sep 3, 2026

My main "Earliest Easter Campaign" has officially reached 500 signatures today (September 3rd), and because I am completely locked out of using social media,  I have had to endure spending thousands of pounds and six gruelling months just to get my campaign to the 500-signature mark, as the timeline shows below:

  • Petition created - February 27th
  • 100 signatures - March 25th
  • 200 signatures - April 13th
  • 300 signatures - May 9th
  • 400 signatures - June 18th
  • 500 signatures - September 3rd  (today)

change.org's built-in "chip in" tool is often seen as supplementary to using social media to share your petition, however for users without social media, it is absolutely NOT supplementary and is our only lifeline to get our petition seen and to reach big milestones like 100, 500 or 1,000 signatures.

My only social media account is the change.org platform itself, so I rely on other supporters to chip-in and share my petition page on social media for me, which is what happened with a previous successful petition that ended up at 1,569 signatures (however it won in part due to another identical-cause parallel campaign on the platform).

I also want change.org to stop displaying signs like "Lets get to 500 signatures" and "Petitions with 1,000+ supporters are 5x more likely to win" on active petitions with fewer than 1,000 signatures because those words directly hinder campaigners on the platform who do not use social media like myself and a previous successful 1,569-signature petition I ran (thanks to another parallel and supporters reading my email updates this acting on my behalf near the campaign's conclusion) took a whole year just to reach 1,000 signatures and again six months to hit 500.

I also get automated emails saying things like "The most successful campaigners share their petitions" and "Share your petition", which is inherently unfair as I personally lack those accounts and have to rely entirely on chipping in.

change.org really isn't designed or built for campaigners without social media, and the only way that can change is by creating this very meta-petition and pointing that out to supporters.

A user without social media on the platform could be unemployed and potentially running a petition about unemployment; because they lack social media, they have to chip-in money they don't have or earn just to get their petition seen, so it really isn't fair and change.org's system is completely rigged against users without social media!

change.org should also say "You have chipped in £15 to promote your petition" if the creator promotes their own petition" not "You have chipped in £15 to promote John Smith's petition" if you, the petition starter, are John Smith!

Users should also be able to manually delete their petition without having to email platform staff for that request and I also want.change.org to stop sending verification code emails so we can just log in with our passwords, as I find that goddamn annoying!

We need to get to 100 signatures ASAP to officially trigger decision makers to fix these faulty flaws!

Mr. Easter