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Sun 30 Oct 2016 10:50AM

Switching Petition Platforms

TCS Tristan Copley Smith Public Seen by 447

The #WeAreTwitter petition is currently hosted on the Action Network platform. Change.org is an alternative platform interested in hosting our petition for the campaign's re-launch on Monday (tomorrow).

Here are the pros and cons, as highlighted in the #communications channel on Slack:

Pros for moving to Change.org:

  • It is a better known platform with larger community (12m in UK alone)
  • They have offered to support our campaign in newsletters emails to their community in UK an look into other countries as well
  • There have been issues with the Action Network platform including language support, misleading signature goals, smaller user community

Cons for moving to Change.org:

  • Current petition signees will need to re-sign, we may loose some
  • Unlike Action Network, Change.org is for-profit and controversial among some activists (see http://bit.ly/2f0Ep8g)
  • They use cookies and tracking for advertisements
TCS

Poll Created Sun 30 Oct 2016 10:54AM

URGENT: We are relaunching the #WeAreTwitter campaign tomorrow. Should we migrate the petition to Change.org? Closed Sun 30 Oct 2016 8:01PM

Please note: we must decide this by the end of today (Sunday) if we are to have time to migrate to Change.org. Also, our URL can be easily re-routed to a new petition page if we decide to do so.

Pros for moving to Change.org:

• It is a better known platform with larger community (12m in UK alone)
• They have offered to support our campaign in newsletters emails to their community in UK an look into other countries as well
• There have been issues with the Action Network platform including langauge support, misleading signature goals, smaller user community

Cons for moving to Change.org:

• Current petition signees will need to re-sign, we may loose some
• Unlike Action Network, Change.org is for-profit and controvercial among some activists (see http://bit.ly/2f0Ep8g)
• The change could confuse our supporters

Results

Results Option % of points Voters
Agree 60.0% 12 JF TCS WM RG KL TE ES JH KS BP MS V
Abstain 20.0% 4 MS NS TL DB
Disagree 20.0% 4 DS TM ARK MIS
Block 0.0% 0  
Undecided 0% 230 JV SJ IS ST M JD ML AT RF SP S JA HC AP JR EF Y JD S JB

20 of 250 people have participated (8%)

KS

Katharina Simon
Abstain
Sun 30 Oct 2016 11:01AM

Indigo oder betterplace would be better choices

JH

Johnny Haeusler
Agree
Sun 30 Oct 2016 11:14AM

This might be the last chance to switch platforms and I think we neeed the largest partners we can get. They might deal with ad partners, yes. But so does Twitter.

KS

Katharina Simon
Agree
Sun 30 Oct 2016 11:27AM

Indigo oder betterplace would be better choices

ES

Eugenia Siapera
Agree
Sun 30 Oct 2016 2:44PM

I am going with the flow here, it's important to gain traction at this stage, though I am not a great fan of change.org

TM

Tom McDonough
Disagree
Sun 30 Oct 2016 3:23PM

The database of petition signers is our most important asset and most remain independent.
I don't know the backend of either Change or ActionNetwork but keeping the database where it is seems best.

DS

Danny Spitzberg
Disagree
Sun 30 Oct 2016 3:31PM

Change.org goes against an "Internet of Ownership." They get us attention, but they own our data and sell it for profit. But platform choice aside, How might 10-100k signatures help us? What exact goal/outcome do we want? Can we clarify that first?

KL

Kirsten Lambertsen
Agree
Sun 30 Oct 2016 3:59PM

It's hard for me to believe that we aren't allowed to collect the email addresses of our petition signers with Change.org. Is that really true? Do we have to choose? Can we keep both and just use different page paths for each?

NS

Nathan Schneider
Abstain
Sun 30 Oct 2016 4:42PM

I've created a sample list at Change.org.It doesn't appear to have additional features compared to AN—for instance, language support. You can't edit the post-signing page. The only advantage is maybe getting help from the Change.org company.

DB

Daniel Brandes
Abstain
Sun 30 Oct 2016 6:26PM

Open for that, but starting from zero could be risky. General public could perceive the movement as fragmented and competing

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