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An avalanche of petitions

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sunseeker Tue 04-Aug-15 19:17:30

I'm with you Grannyknot, I have signed a couple petitions, mainly about human rights and find I am getting "invitations" to sign petitions for things completely unrelated to anything I have signed before. It seems once you sign one they assume you will sign anything. I don't want to unsubscribe in case I miss a petition I want to sign but I wish they would discriminate a little as to what they send me.

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Elegran Tue 04-Aug-15 18:58:20

It is a bit like charity fatigue - you contribute, and then are contacted at more and more frequent intervals to contribute again, up your contribution, take out a direct debit, remember them in your will . . .

Or like the emails you get from online stores after you buy something, that assume you immediately want to buy another of the same. Do they know more than we do about how soon it will wear out?

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Grannyknot Tue 04-Aug-15 18:44:30

Is it only me or are others also receiving way too many emails from [insert names of current most well-known petition sites]? What is also annoying is the personal tone of many of the emails. So I've been on an "unsubscribe" binge and (on one site) when I hit the unsubscribe button, I was faced with a list as to what type of petitions I wanted to opt out of, including "petitions that a friend thought may interest you" (paraphrased) confused

AIBU to think that there is such a thing as "petition fatigue", because I think I've got it.

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