How many people upload their data to WU and how many people participate in WXFORUM?
I don't think there is much chance of affecting any change by trying to organize a boycott. I will hazard a guess that the vast majority of pws sites on WU are from people that are quite content if not gleeful about having their station turn up on the maps and graphs, and for free. Only hobbyists will find and reveal and disdain the dark inner doings of WU,IBM.
I totally agree with you. The number of people in the know that WU is providing a subpar experience to hobbyists is insignificant. IBM is laughing all the way to the bank. Remember station owners providing free data are not the customer.
This is why I said that just talk about a boycott is meaningless unless done right. Just posting here on the forum, "hey let's boycott" will accomplish nothing. A proper boycott is a movement that needs more organization and effort. Many things would need to get done. I have no idea how to successfully pull this off but I think it is possible if someone organized it.
For example some of the many things that would need to be organized (and even still there is no guarantee unless all of this lights a spark and goes viral):
- many post on many social media; Facebook, Instagram, forums, YouTube, Twitter...etc.
- fund.me to raise money for more advertising of cause
- petition at change.org
- boycott of not just WU but other IBM services and likewise plaster to other IBM using communities
- organized march with picket signs at headquarters
- contact local and national media and hope they pick up the story for the news
- be creative and do all of this in a way that it creates buzz and goes viral. Like the people that said that they were going to storm Area 51. Doesn't matter that it amounted to nothing on the day of. The point is that the story got picked up by all the media. Everyone now knows the story. It went viral.
- much more that I'm unaware of because this is not what I do nor have experienced ever having done nor am I interested in doing nor saying that I will necessarily participating in.
My point is that if you are going to bring up the boycott word then mean it and do it right. Otherwise it is pointless to fantasize any of this.
I'm not trying to stir anything up. I have not said if I believe or not in the boycott idea. I'm only commenting that you can discuss the world problems around the poker table but that doesn't accomplish anything.