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Why exactly are they raising the signature threshold? It doesn't say.
by comice 14y ago
Why exactly are they raising the signature threshold? It doesn't say.
- cheald 14y ago"Stop bothering us."
- Samuel_Michon 14y agoIt was explained the first time they raised the treshold [0]: "The massive participation on We the People means that in the first week over 30 petitions reached 5,000 signatures, the initial threshold to generate an official response from the White House. At our first internal review meeting Friday, two things were clear: (a) everyone is thrilled about this new challenge and excited to process the first batch, but (b) this many petitions challenges our ability to offer timely and meaningful responses to petitions in the long term. [...] This may not be the last time we change the thresholds, both in terms of signatures and amount of time." So they're admitting that simply throwing more people at the problem won't work in the long run, since petitioners expect meaningful responses from people who are knowledgeable. See Mythical Man-Month [1] and PG's decision to limit the size of the YC W13 class [2]. [0] http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/10/03/good-problem-have-raising-signature-threshold-white-house-petitions http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/10/03/good-problem-have-... [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month#The_mythical_man-month http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month#The_myth... [2] http://ycombinator.com/w13smaller.html http://ycombinator.com/w13smaller.html