Change.org petition to ban e-cigarettes

[GreenEyezGirl]

I hope this hasn’t been posted yet. I did do a search first. Anyhow, I got a petition in my email today that made me so extremely mad and wanted to share. Please read it and see how absolutely uneducated people are.

Sign the Petition

 

[Anise]

Ridiculous! Are they for real? Lungs bursting? I would laugh if they weren't endangering vaping.

 

[Rossum]

I hope this hasn’t been posted yet.

It sorta/kinda has:
Change dot org

 

[VHRB2014]

Can't we just ban stupidity? (Lol)

 

[bombastinator]

This is an embarrassment to change.org. It appears to be that there is an “anyone can fill out a petition under our banner” button. Perhaps someone has used it.

 

[VapourFlavour]

There were no WMD

 

[GreenEyezGirl]

Ridiculous! Are they for real? Lungs bursting? I would laugh if they weren't endangering vaping.

I almost fell off my chair laughing when I read “lungs bursting”. Really?? Unbelievable. The ignorance. The funniest part is that is was premised with “Ive heard”. Well, I’ve heard the sky is falling -chicken little

 

[GreenEyezGirl]

It sorta/kinda has:
Change dot org

Oopsie. My bad. Sorry for the duplicate post. I’m glad that most that are signing are only doing it so they can leave a comment...... most of which are AGAINST it.

 

[jandrew]

This is an embarrassment to change.org. It appears to be that there is an “anyone can fill out a petition under our banner” button. Perhaps someone has used it.

Uhm, change.org is an embarrassment to change.org.

 

[bombastinator]

Uhm, change.org is an embarrassment to change.org.

So it seems. Not everything they do is stupid, but they’ve lost a lot of credibility on this one.

 

[jandrew]

So it seems. Not everything they do is stupid, but they’ve lost a lot of credibility on this one.

They lost credibility when they switched to a for-profit business model involving targetted ads and selling user data (years ago) --- and stuck with a .org address (usually used for non-profits, but granted, not necessarily), and are happy for people to be mislead about their for-profit status and business model. And there's more. But this is a vaping site so I'll cap my comment there.

 

[CMD-Ky]

Can't we just ban stupidity? (Lol)

We could but only you and I would be left.

 

[ScottP]

So it seems. Not everything they do is stupid, but they’ve lost a lot of credibility on this one.

Not just this one. As I pointed out in the other thread:
On a side note, have you ever just browsed the petitions on that site? There are some REALLY stupid ones. Someone petitioning their parents to allow them to get a futon. Some kid petitioning his teacher to be able to use pen (instead of pencil) in class. Someone petitioning world leaders to make the world stop spinning so they can get more sun. There are petitions to get everyone to following someone on Youtube, and another to unlock someone's Twitter account. Some of these people need to have their voter registrations revoked, and be prevented from ever breeding.

 

[United States]

Boooooooooooooo change dot org.

 

[Ceejay0875]

Honestly I've never seen one of these petitions accomplish anything, so I really don't think there's anything to worry about from this angle. However, if one felt so inclined, I suppose there's nothing stopping anyone here from making our own change dot org petition and seeing if we can beat them. How bored/drunk are you all on this fine Friday night?...

 

[bombastinator]

Not just this one. As I pointed out in the other thread:
On a side note, have you ever just browsed the petitions on that site? There are some REALLY stupid ones. Someone petitioning their parents to allow them to get a futon. Some kid petitioning his teacher to be able to use pen (instead of pencil) in class. Someone petitioning world leaders to make the world stop spinning so they can get more sun. There are petitions to get everyone to following someone on Youtube, and another to unlock someone's Twitter account. Some of these people need to have their voter registrations revoked, and be prevented from ever breeding.

Sounds like the stupid here is that change.org will let any idiot make a petition. They’ve been around for awhile. One would assume they know they’re being mercilessly trolled. The salient point here though is that if this thing is amongst those it’s not something anyone has to worry about.

 

[BrotherBob]

I hope this hasn’t been posted yet. I did do a search first. Anyhow, I got a petition in my email today that made me so extremely mad and wanted to share. Please read it and see how absolutely uneducated people are.

True, checked them out and this org is toxic.
re: Change.org - Wikipedia

 

[Vapedog]

I once signed a petition on Change to help some cause. But damn! After that my email in box got smashed non stop by Change.org petitions for everything and anything, then they started asking for money, monthly donations, they drove me mad so I unsubscribed and will never go there again.

 

[dripster]

Some of these people need to have their voter registrations revoked, and be prevented from ever breeding.

What a total waste... I just spent the last 5 hours looking for your petition.

 

[ScottP]

What a total waste... I just spent the last 5 hours looking for your petition.

That might actually be a worthy cause. You should start it.