Submitted on Thursday 4th August 2011
Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
More actively prevent duplicate epetitions
A search on this site for "capital" brings back 30 results, of which 29 relate to capital punishment. This is without counting results when searching for "death penality". There are multiple non-overlapping petitions here (one against, one for, one asking for referendum, etc) however 29 is ridiculous.
These duplicates make browsing the site unpleasant (we want to see different ideas, not 29 the same) and also dilutes support for ideas. This site cannot run effectively if duplicates are not actively prevented. That would be a great shame. I think we can accept petitions taking longer to appear on the site, for the sake of removing duplicates.
P.S. this is not only in relation to the capital punishment issue. For example searching for "satire" brings up two petitions. If duplicates are not to be looked for so actively when they are first published, we need a robust system to "merge" petitions (contact those who signed, informing them they may wish to support the other petition).
You can't sign this petition because it was rejected. But you can still comment on it here at Repetition.me!
The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
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