The moderators wrote:

The moderators have made it abundantly clear over several years of Town
> Meetings and voting cycles... TAKE CONVERSATIONS OFFLINE!  If you are in a
> debate with someone and are going back and forth... time to take it offline.
>

I realize it's "moderator's church, moderator's rules", but I would ask the
moderators to consider indulging a *little *back and forth (moderate and
respectful, of course) leading up to Town Meeting.

We have found over the years that hashing on lincoln-talk tends to make TM
debates on the topics less down-in-the-weeds.  In other words, some
tolerated messiness on lincoln-talk makes town meetings run better.

Residents can press "skip" or "mute" on their email inbox, but they can't
do that at Town Meeting.  (When someone finally invents that technology for
an in-person town meeting, it will be a game changer.)

One "provider of detailed explanations" resident's view,

-andy
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