Filing Standards
Filing is permanent and unreviewed. The standards below are the few matters on which the office does, in fact, hold a position.
A petition may not name a private individual
Petitions may be filed against practices, institutions, machines, weather, language, and public figures acting in a public capacity. Petitions may not name, describe, or target an identifiable private person. A grievance about the chair that holds clothing is in order. A grievance about a specific neighbor is not, and will be rejected on filing.
Standards of conduct
Titles, stated reasons, and signer names are held to a plain standard. Profanity, slurs, and abuse are not entered into the record. Keep it dry. The best filings already are.
Opposition is welcome
Any petition may be met with a petition in opposition. Opposition filings are auto-titled, cross-referenced to the instrument they contest, and shown as a matter in dispute. The heel of the bread has its defenders. They are entitled to the record.
Moderation
Every petition and every stated reason carries a means of report. A filing found to breach these standards is hidden from the docket. The record is kept; the record is simply not shown. Reasonable filings stay up. Unreasonable ones come down without ceremony.
Thresholds
- Ten signatures: Noticed.
- One hundred signatures: Under Review.
- One thousand signatures: Escalated.
- Ten thousand signatures: Enacted, which means nothing.
This record has no legal effect. See what this is. Records retained indefinitely. Acted upon never.