Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25657679-20150519135917/@comment-1267828-20150626162246

Graphitetailgrace wrote: 89.241.67.210 wrote: Wikia don't care about your feedback. They may pretend too, but they don't. Noone can say no to a petition. This is the grand misconception of what a petition actually is.

A petition is


 * A collection of names in favor of a specific action
 * Typically crowd-run and voluntarily acted on
 * Used to either voice denial of a specific action or voice request for overturn of an already made decision.

A petition is not/does not


 * A legally binding contract that MUST be obeyed
 * Required to even be acknowledged by the party it is intended to be sent to.
 * Force the intended party to take the specified action

Anyone can 100% ignore a petition. It is Entirely up to the requested party whether they want to or not.

Take for example the Texas Secession(1) which yielded lots of signatures but was ultimately refused anyway by the government.

There is nowhere in the legal world that says Wikia MUST follow your petition. It is a meaningless list of names if they deem it so.

Wikia is also free, so you don't have standing as far as a consumer goes. Since no purchase is required to utilize this site, they do not have an obligation to satiate all requests if it would be problematic.

This isn't saying Wikia will ignore you, just that they have the legal right to ignore you.