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Why not make the threshold dynamic?

• acangiano 14y ago
  I suspect they wanted to keep things as simple as possible. But yeah, shooting for 1 or 2% of the total amount of registrants would be a future-proof solution.
• baddox 14y ago
  They could simply reply to the x most-signed petitions every y weeks.
  • harryh 14y ago
    This solution seems ideal. And if your petition gets screwed because it happens to be created at the same time as X other super popular ones you could always re-create it for the next cycle.
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  • slavak 14y ago
    This works great for web-services, not so much for government. A government service needs transparency. 'You get a response after X signatures' is simple, understandable, and transparent. 'You get a response if you're in the top Y' is opaque; my petition was #Y yesterday, how did it become #Y+1 today when it's time for the official count? It was #Y at 7am, why did it suddenly jump to #Y+1 for 5 minutes at 11am when they were selecting the winners?