Is anyone else overwhelmed with the plethora of online petitions?

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12. A clearinghouse, of sorts, might help.

I think I know what you mean, the same thing with other causes like free-trade coffee or ending sweatshops: instead of one cohesive united movement, there are dozens or hundreds of organizations or websites trying to do the same thing but, really, competing with each other and weakening what would be a stronger message if united.

What if there was a website that posted top petitions and for each cause listed the top five, most responded to petitions.

Add to that some criteria, qualifications, maybe with symbols or scores, thumbs up or down or similar, about the petitioning body's credentials.

Good things: not associated with a political party, not associated with a corporation, no popups for donations, links to legitimate sources of information. (high score)

Bad things: Pop-ups, ties to parties or businesses, no links to information, push-polling and hyperbole.



Now, all of these things being equal, the top of the five listed for any single cause or movement would earn that spot for having the greatest number of signatures.

Thus, the objective would be that people sign that one first, or that one only, then move on to the next cause.

That's all I got.

I know what you mean, it would be good to find some way to make our petitions more impactful.