We don't even have hoops! Of course, now there's something for the Ecclesia Dei commission actually to enforce. They're planning an explanatory statement, and I guess they've been following responses. I'd love to see a real smackdown -- but failing that (and they're just a lot nicer than I am), at the very least a clear, words-of-one-syllable ultimatum!
I think the hoops, in our case, were just to buy time. That is, they were hoping it would take forever to assemble signatures, and that in the interim, people would forget about it or the modernists could consolidate their opposition in some way.
They’ve been pretty successful with the latter, btw, and are working hard to marginalize the conservative priest and even parish members they perceive as conservative. Even the fact that parish income has been declining since they started on this punitive course doesn’t seem to bother them, because they are obsessed with preventing the TLM in this parish and, if they can, in the diocese altogether.