UK Politics Thread IX: The Masses Against the Classes

[Greater Loegria]

And easily explains why I had to try repeatedly to get it to work. You'd think that someone in the IT department would have thought "hmm, this might be a very popular petition, perhaps we should allocate more system resources to it?"

Do you seriously expect a Tory government to fund a petition that may put a wrench into the gears of their Brexit plan? I don't think so, but we must get it to work, without all the intermittent crashes if possible, for the future of the Union is at stake here, heck, the British people themselves. I pray that when I wake up on the 29th of March, 2019, that I will receive the news of Article 50 being withdrawn in time and this fiasco ended once and for all. Otherwise, I will lose what little faith I had in British democracy surviving after this mess.

The IT department at Westminster is staffed by public servants who carry out business as best as they can regardless of the political issues at stake. I know, I've worked there. Pipe down with the cynicism.

[The Blaatschapen]

So it is the highest rate of signatures the petition site has ever had to deal with, at times reaching 2,000 signatures a minute.

And easily explains why I had to try repeatedly to get it to work. You'd think that someone in the IT department would have thought "hmm, this might be a very popular petition, perhaps we should allocate more system resources to it?"

Provided their infrastructure is capable of prioritizing a specific petition.

[Fartsniffage]

And easily explains why I had to try repeatedly to get it to work. You'd think that someone in the IT department would have thought "hmm, this might be a very popular petition, perhaps we should allocate more system resources to it?"

Provided their infrastructure is capable of prioritizing a specific petition.

It's a British government website. I'm amazed it works at all...

[The New California Republic]

And easily explains why I had to try repeatedly to get it to work. You'd think that someone in the IT department would have thought "hmm, this might be a very popular petition, perhaps we should allocate more system resources to it?"

Provided their infrastructure is capable of prioritizing a specific petition.

I think in general the infrastructure for the petitions across the board isn't terribly busy most of the time, so allocating additional resources even to the whole system in its entirety would have been a prudent move, if prioritisation of specific petitions isn't possible.

[The New California Republic]

Provided their infrastructure is capable of prioritizing a specific petition.

It's a British government website. I'm amazed it works at all...

I have a working typewriter, so I would have just typed a letter as my "signature" and sent it by snail mail if the system hadn't worked at all.

[Greater Loegria]

Provided their infrastructure is capable of prioritizing a specific petition.

It's a British government website. I'm amazed it works at all...

Most of their websites work very well... for the most part.

[The Blaatschapen]

Speaking of the petition. I saw it floating around in some local expat groups here (apparently, we still have British people clinging on desperately). And they'd even gave a postal code/zip code to go along with it so that everybody could vote.

Naturally, I did not sign. But it was interesting to see.

[The New California Republic]

Speaking of the petition. I saw it floating around in some local expat groups here (apparently, we still have British people clinging on desperately). And they'd even gave a postal code/zip code to go along with it so that everybody could vote.

Naturally, I did not sign. But it was interesting to see.

When I have signed other petitions using the system on previous occasions I am actually surprised there isn't a system of verification, such as requiring a National Insurance number.

[Dumb Ideologies]

It's a British government website. I'm amazed it works at all...

I have a working typewriter, so I would have just typed a letter as my "signature" and sent it by snail mail if the system hadn't worked at all.

Glad to hear that you are not unduly modern like some of our MPs.

[Vassenor]

Speaking of the petition. I saw it floating around in some local expat groups here (apparently, we still have British people clinging on desperately). And they'd even gave a postal code/zip code to go along with it so that everybody could vote.

Naturally, I did not sign. But it was interesting to see.

When I have signed other petitions using the system on previous occasions I am actually surprised there isn't a system of verification, such as requiring a National Insurance number.

Or a more robust system for allowing UK Citizens living abroad to participate.

[The Blaatschapen]

Speaking of the petition. I saw it floating around in some local expat groups here (apparently, we still have British people clinging on desperately). And they'd even gave a postal code/zip code to go along with it so that everybody could vote.

Naturally, I did not sign. But it was interesting to see.

When I have signed other petitions using the system on previous occasions I am actually surprised there isn't a system of verification, such as requiring a National Insurance number.

That would require a lot of extra security then

I wonder if it has any bot protection.

[Greater Loegria]

Speaking of the petition. I saw it floating around in some local expat groups here (apparently, we still have British people clinging on desperately). And they'd even gave a postal code/zip code to go along with it so that everybody could vote.

Naturally, I did not sign. But it was interesting to see.

When I have signed other petitions using the system on previous occasions I am actually surprised there isn't a system of verification, such as requiring a National Insurance number.

This has disturbed me frequently, its surprisingly easy. Either they know more about us than they ought to or the system is open wider to abuse than a Welsh sheep's back door.

[Fartsniffage]

Speaking of the petition. I saw it floating around in some local expat groups here (apparently, we still have British people clinging on desperately). And they'd even gave a postal code/zip code to go along with it so that everybody could vote.

Naturally, I did not sign. But it was interesting to see.

When I have signed other petitions using the system on previous occasions I am actually surprised there isn't a system of verification, such as requiring a National Insurance number.

There are currently 2506 signatures from Argentina....

[The Blaatschapen]

When I have signed other petitions using the system on previous occasions I am actually surprised there isn't a system of verification, such as requiring a National Insurance number.

This has disturbed me frequently, its surprisingly easy. Either they know more about us than they ought to or the system is open wider to abuse than a Welsh sheep's back door.

Now I am really offended.

[The Blaatschapen]

When I have signed other petitions using the system on previous occasions I am actually surprised there isn't a system of verification, such as requiring a National Insurance number.

There are currently 2506 signatures from Argentina....

You mean Falkland Islands?

[An Alan Smithee Nation]

When I have signed other petitions using the system on previous occasions I am actually surprised there isn't a system of verification, such as requiring a National Insurance number.

That would require a lot of extra security then

I wonder if it has any bot protection.

There was a previous petition for a second referendum that reached 4 million votes but later had thousands of votes discounted because they were from bots. So they are clearly aware of the possibility, though whether they can counter it in real time I don't know.

Interestingly a previous petition to leave immediately without a deal only got about 138,000 signatures in comparison to the one today.

[Fartsniffage]

This has disturbed me frequently, its surprisingly easy. Either they know more about us than they ought to or the system is open wider to abuse than a Welsh sheep's back door.

Now I am really offended.

I wouldn't worry too much. While farm animals seem to be a common tory kink, the usually wait until after they're dead.

[Fartsniffage]

There are currently 2506 signatures from Argentina....

You mean Falkland Islands?

only 2 from there.

And I fucked up, it's 2506 from Australia which is much more believable. Just 18 from Argentina.

[Novus America]

When I have signed other petitions using the system on previous occasions I am actually surprised there isn't a system of verification, such as requiring a National Insurance number.

That would require a lot of extra security then

I wonder if it has any bot protection.

I clicked on it to see. Looks like zero security. I did not sign but could have. Multiple times.
You have to check a box saying you are a UK citizen, put a name, email address and location code. That is it.

No Captcha, no id number, nothing.

[Andsed]

So the petitions are down right now because presumably so many were signing the petition... This does not bode well for Brexit.

[The New California Republic]

When I have signed other petitions using the system on previous occasions I am actually surprised there isn't a system of verification, such as requiring a National Insurance number.

That would require a lot of extra security then

I wonder if it has any bot protection.

The system sends you an email and you need to click a link in it to verify your signature. I'm sure if there were dozens of signatures coming from one email address then the system would discard all of them except one.

[The Blaatschapen]

That would require a lot of extra security then

I wonder if it has any bot protection.

I clicked on it to see. Looks like zero security. I did not sign but could have. Multiple times.
You have to check a box saying you are a UK citizen, put a name, email address and location code. That is it.

No Captcha, no id number, nothing.

...

wow.

Too bad there is a Brexit, I hear that the UK could use someone familiar with web security

*does not apply for the job*

[Vassenor]

So the petitions are down right now because presumably so many were signing the petition... This does not bode well for Brexit.

This is at least the third or fourth time it's happened today.

[Alvecia]

That would require a lot of extra security then

I wonder if it has any bot protection.

I clicked on it to see. Looks like zero security. I did not sign but could have. Multiple times.
You have to check a box saying you are a UK citizen, put a name, email address and location code. That is it.

No Captcha, no id number, nothing.

Security through Obscurity can be surprisingly effective at times

[Andsed]

So the petitions are down right now because presumably so many were signing the petition... This does not bode well for Brexit.

This is at least the third or fourth time it's happened today.

Yeah is this a normal thing for popular petitions or what?