[Moto G 2015 General] IronTechmonkey:
Fair enough and I'd say, opinionated (which is not a bad thing on its own) rather than stupid.

Also, in regards to your questions and points about geographic region; you are on to something there. India is heavily represented in some of these device distributions and the petitions (which is not really a surprise) as is Brazil (which is a bit more surprising) and large companies such as Moto often play regions against each other, or at least treat them differently as if we are isolated from each other and not comparing notes in forums like this.

Case in point: With the Moto E, Motorola managed to create a situation where they could legally claim that they had updated all devices therefore not betraying a promise to do so, but they updated devices in India to M late in the device run and only gave US retail devices a security patch for L, managing to split the community of users of nearly identical hardware across different OS. Then very late in the game, after many people had unlocked bootloaders thereby voiding warranties or moved to other devices the threw M at the remaining devices. At least then we can get a stock version of the original firmware.

[EDIT] As to people laughing at it, I can see how that might be disheartening but dont let it get to you. Not everyone will allow themselves to realize this could help their situation and even some who realize it might help just wont care. Thank you very much for attempting to spread the word. Also, even though 2.6 million devices to 15,000 signatures seems like a steep hill, for each of those signatures there has been contact with Moto and that is probably noticeable.

It occurs to me that there is another thing that some of us could do as individuals: For Moto E I found contacts for about a dozen of their higher level corporate staff (everyone I could find with an executive or marketing title) to contact by email as well as their "president's" office by phone. This was in addition to all of those email addresses being sent an email via the Moto E petition each time it was signed. This takes a level of persistence that some people may find uncomfortable but even just a few dozen people doing this in each region would definitely be noticed:

- Contact Moto support directly and insist on speaking to the "Office of the president" or "Corporate complaints" or whatever they are now calling that avenue of contact (if it still exists)

- Insist on getting a case # and make it about the absence of an OS update and how that renders your device less secure and functional than peer devices.

- If they open a case, you will probably get an email stating that it will be automatically closed within 3(?) days

- Reply to them stating that their answer did not speak to the matter and insist that the case be kept opened or a new one be opened. Keep the original case opened as long as possible because they get to reset the clock if a new one is created.

- If possible call the "president's" office again and let them know that the case could not be considered closed because the update has not yet been delivered.

- Send email stating same as previous step to all of the upper level executive and marketing staff you can find.

- Lather rinse repeat.

This is not easy or fun work, and Moto execs are hiding better these days, but I'm going to see what contacts might still be made and will share any good ones.