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mithridates · Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 9:13 pm Post subject: More on my petition

All right, 46 people have signed so far in the last few days. 46 is more than zero but not as much as I had expected so I'm hoping somebody knows a few other boards I should post on. I've already posted on the Korea Herald website, here, my home page, Google, and a few other places.
Quite a few of the people who have signed are Korean as well.
My goal is anywhere from 5000 to 10000 so I'm going to need a few more methods of promoting this, or a few more people to give me a hand. Don't forget that anyone from anywhere can sign this as long as they are an adult, it takes one minute, and the email address isn't shown.

dogbert · Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Location: Killbox 90210

I saw your post on sck and notice that it attracted the expected ignorant responses. Good luck with your petition!

SuperHero · Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Location: Superhero Hideout

have you tried the busan forums? sorry I don't know the link.

ladyandthetramp · Joined: 21 Nov 2003

I put the link on my cyworld page; but honestly, you'll be lucky if that gets you even one more signature. Embarassed

Did you try englishspectrum.com and worknplay.com?

Sorry, I can't help much.

royjones · Joined: 26 Mar 2004 Location: post count: 512

Doubtful you are gonna get that many. I doubt people really care that much. I don't.

mithridates · Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 6:43 am Post subject:

I only need people to care enough to go:

>click< (on link)
>click< (on "sign petition")
John Francis (name)
[email protected] (email address)
>click< (on agree)
>click< (on yes, really submit)

I don't plan to get a veritable legion of English teachers all fired up and demanding their rights, taking the day off in protest of their Foreign Registration Numbers and swearing in blood on a knife I pass around from one to the other, never to set foot in their hagwon again until the situation is rectified...

that's why I always mention that it takes under a minute.

jurassic5 · Joined: 02 Apr 2003 Location: PA

mithridates · Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 11:48 pm Post subject:

Here it is, an email from the Korea Herald today:

mithridates · Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 6:48 am Post subject:

Here it is! It was published exactly as I wrote it.

Bulsajo · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

Cool, congrats and best of luck. I promise my wife and I will get around to signing your petition- honest! Embarassed

Any thoughts on Jurassic's article?

mithridates · Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 11:03 pm Post subject:

Up to 81 people now...

It's an interesting article, though a bit of an odd idea. I wonder why they're trying to go through that roundabout way instead of just recognizing the numbers we already have? I'm more for an all or nothing approach, and I want to be able to sign up for anything that a Korean can. Letting foreigners sign up for a select certain number of sites will actually be counter-productive as it will appease a certain number of people for a while, while not really tackling the source of the problem. In short, it's too lukewarm for my tastes.

mithridates · Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2004 3:24 pm Post subject:

97 now...I think this is going to be a long-term project.

prairieboy · Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Location: The batcave.

I just signed. I'll pass on the information to some of my friends.

Cheers

OiGirl · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: Hoke-y-gun

What will you ultimately do with this petition?

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/internet.htm

mithridates · Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2004 9:48 pm Post subject:

Two petitions on this site have generated apologies from CNN and Microsoft before (go to the main page, www.petitiononline.com to see them) so they can be effective. Generally the best thing to do is decide on a number that's representative of something; a number that also represents some percentile of the population. 5000 would be about 1% of the foreigner population of Korea, though since Koreans are signing it as well, 10000 would be better.
While getting people to sign the petition you keep various newspapers informed on your progress and hopefully get mentioned from time to time as the numbers go up. There should be an increase in momentum while doing this, and eventually after you get the required number of signatures, print out a hard copy and send one to every newspaper in the country, plus one to the government, or even better, get your picture taken from one of the newspapers as you hand the thick stack of papers to the person most responsible for the issue you're trying to raise.
I assume that's what will happen...