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In reply to the discussion: Is anyone else overwhelmed with the plethora of online petitions? [View all]NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)And it would, to be successful, need to use algorithms and thus "run itself", and be tied to facebook and twitter, etal.
I guess thunderclap manages to sort out less popular movements, what I envisioned would present (for example) the four or five petitions competing for the same purpose and allow viewers to vote up the most legitimate one and concentrate efforts there.
They could, of course, sign all the petitions but the objective would be to force the best to rise to the top and, hopefully, the other competitors might somehow follow suit and put their strength behind the top one.
And the clearinghouse, at first, might do this with just the top five or ten causes.
But what I'm describing is pretty linear and old-school and the truth is that today things are far more sophisticated with the Internet so somebody out there will be able to do a "thunderclap" type thing that would be really powerful.
I'd love to see something come of this and I'll bet you'll help make it happen.
If I can help, let me know!