Quote Originally Posted by crow_noir
I will agree that a majority of petition site out there are pretty much wastes of bandwidth.

Please also see my reply to Karen.

What people really need to beware of though are the email petitions. They should know NOT to sign any supposed petition that comes through the email. A link to one is one thing, but if it asks you to add your name and forward it to others do NOT do so!!!

Thank you for a calm diplomatic response! I really appreciate it greatly.

The one good petition site that i know of off the top of my head is thepetitionsite.com A good author will keep a watchful eye on the signatures and confirm them. Yes, not all petitions on here are held to quality standards; however there are many serious authors too. Care2 has the fields available to make these petitions legal and verifiable. (I haven't seen that on any other site in a long time.) For privacy reasons all the fields aren't shown until you go to sign the petition, then only the author and who it's directed to get to see the personal information. (I'm saying don't judge it by going there and just taking a quick peek. There are other fields that aren't on display.)
Even though this is technically off topic because this is about Menu foods and not online petitions I do have to agree with Crow Noir and disagree with those of you who feel online petitions are a total waste of time or bandwidth.

While they may not have any legal standing in a court of law we had a petition on thepetitionsite for a while and it was very helpful in a pet abuse situation. The manager of our local SPCA was a total abuser. The director in Philadelphia was protecting him. A petition was started and we collected almost 1000 signitures in a very short period of time. The originator was able to verify signitures and while some yes were from out of state or unverifiable over 800 of those signitures were from local people here in Centre Co. That petition gave us some information as in stories and name of people to contact in the area of abuses that were committed by John the shelter manager. When this was taken to the board in Philly a compromise was effected. A watchdog group was formed and for almost 2 years things went well. But John got complacent. The director in Philly "retired" and John was just recently fired. So now a new management is in charge and things are looking up at the Centre Co. SPCA. But without that petition we didn't have enough "ammo" to take to the board.

So while it wasn't in a court of law that petition was NOT a TOTAL WASTE of bandwidth or time and the time spent away from my pets went to helping to decrease the suffering of many other pets.

There are ALWAYS exceptions.

Denyce