Guess who's back, prats? (Me, Barry)

Stop sharing this "petition," PLEASE

(Disclaimer:  I'm not advising you to attack anyone.  This is my personal outlook, feel free to not agree)

So, the emoji petition, unfortunately, has returned.  This has kinda upset me, since I thought the Wattpad community was done with its little tantrum, but I guess not.

I've already made a formal complaint to Wattpad, both in the form of a report and a conversation with an Ambassador, so don't even try to convince me otherwise. 

The author of the last emoji petition straight up fucking attacked me because I tried to inform them of the flaw in their methods, and I know not all writers are the same, but I'm not taking any chances.  I will NOT be entertaining this shit.

Let me explain why this system is so, extremely flawed:

1) the tag-spamming:

Okay, I wanna find the person who thought that this was a good idea, and for lack of a better word, verbally beat the shit outta them.  This does nothing except backlog Wattpad HQ, and probably gets filtered as spam.  See, PMs directly to WPHQ (not talking about WP Ambassadors, I mean the official Wattpad account) aren't even received; I'd know, I've tried before.  Even worse than tag-spamming WPHQ:  tag-spamming Ambassadors. 

THIS. DOES. FUCKING. NOTHING.

Ambassadors are volunteers, and they cannot change the mechanics/layout of Wattpad itself.  It's like screaming into an abyss, you can say shit, but nothing can really come of it.  I'm this close to reporting every single fucking tag-spam comment I see, I'm done with this.

2) remedying the issue via "petition."

No, having people comment their usernames is not a fucking petition.  Seriously, at least use a placebo organization like Change.org.   A bunch of names in a comment section does, you guessed it, jack shit.

3) people who propagate this shit via sharing it and spamming Ambassadors

Okay, I think I've made my point about the harassment of Ambassadors over things they can't change.  But see, I frankly don't understand the mob mentality it takes to make this B.S become widespread.  How are people this fukcing blind? 

And also, I've never interacted with the author of the current "petition," but I have interacted with another author of an equally dumb petition in the past.

  They fucking attacked me.  Yup.  You want me to riot over your little inconvenience, but come after me for trying to help you not look like a fucking dumbass?  Gee, thanks, shows what people are trusting their ambitions in.

And no, I'm NOT telling you to attack these authors.  I'm telling you to educate misinformed people about just how tedious and useless this process is. 

What should you do instead?

Submit. A. Damn. Ticket.  That's literally what it's for, suggestions and complaints.  It may be just as tedious, but you know what?  It doesn't propagate the harassment of innocent individuals (the Ambassadors, in this case)  and it makes everything that much simpler.

I'm done.  Sorry if you don't agree with me.