In the past, if students had a complaint about the school administration, they would all post sheets of paper on the walls with huge Chinese characters written on them. If the posters weren't backed up by a whole host of signatures, the school would probably ignore them. But united together on the Net, protestors can form a powerful source of pressure which school officials cannot avoid.
以往學生對校方有意見，都是透過一張張的大字報，沒有連署的力量，校方可能置之不理，但透過網路聯繫，卻形成一強大的連線壓力，讓校方不得不正視。