The early responses to the White House petitions are in and the results are mixed. While I thought that the response to the Student Loan and the so called Fair Tax petitions were proper, the responses to the Religion in Government and Marihuana petitions were canned and avoided the issues presented in the petitions. There is already a backlash against these canned responses, but there is little credit given to the responses that were proper. Here is what I suggested to the whitehouse.gov petition set:
You should add Like and Dislike buttons to your responses. Not all of your responses were canned.