Darth_Gently
Here is a little lesson in life - Pettioning doesn't work! Especially online petitions since they can't tell if or if not one person 'signed' mulitple times.
Actually, petitions on Gaia work sometimes, hence creating a "Petition" Subforum. Here's a quote from the subforum sticky:
Ryonin
This forum is a division of the feedback forums where you are encouraged to give the staff a general idea of what features or items you most want. This is an extension of the feature/item suggestion stickies, but with the added benefit of letting us see how many people want any one thing. Before starting a new petition, it would be a good idea to read the sticky labled "The FMIs: Frequently Mentioned Issues" (link), which is located in Site Feedback.
Apparently you haven't been to college as well. I've signed three petitions just this semester, and all three of them have gone through. Petitioning works. Not all of the time, but it does work.