Should we pre-screen questions for high profile speakers / contraversial topics
Hi everyone,
For the Tom Dart presentation, I'd like to start screening questions. I've noticed that anytime we get a controversial topic or high profile speaker the odds of getting commentary/bad questions go up. We're also getting to the point where we don't have time for every question and I'd like to do a better job of trying to surface the really interesting ones.
The simplest way to do this would be to have people ask questions in the google doc. Alternatively, I can collect questions towards the end of the presentation and select questions at random. (Either calling on the person or just reading them out.)
What would we think of this?
Eric Sherman
Wed 10 Aug 2016 5:48AM
Google Doc/Twitter/Slack before and after presentations is valuable, not seeing the need for ongoing censorship beyond what happens naturally.
Steve Ediger (ChiCommons)
Wed 10 Aug 2016 7:20AM
We seem to have reverted to 'questions', while I thought that I heard agreement on 'questions/comments' during our discussion. Secondly, I would replace the word 'warn' with 'inform' to signify a sense of open dialogue. I won't block consensus.
Kristi Leach
Fri 12 Aug 2016 12:26AM
Questions/comments
Karl Fogel
Fri 12 Aug 2016 2:55PM
(I gave my thoughts over in the comments section.)
Derek Eder
Fri 12 Aug 2016 8:27PM
Sounds like a good approach to try out. I agree with the condition that we iterate/modify our policy based on the response.
Eric Sherman Wed 10 Aug 2016 4:15AM
Stunning reversal of opinion from @stevenvance ;-)
Steven Vance Wed 10 Aug 2016 4:34AM
That "agreed" is to the proposal, not to the pre-screening suggestion.
Eric Sherman Wed 10 Aug 2016 5:01AM
@stevenvance
"Moderator reserves the right to re-word questions to make them more succinct. Moderator also reserves the right to call on different people to preserve balance of questioners. "
Is that not screening the questions? I'm not trying to split hairs here, just making sure I understand what changed between the discussion question and the proposal.
Steven Vance Wed 10 Aug 2016 5:42AM
I don't think that's screening because the question will still have been heard by the full audience.
That rewording could only happen when the question is taken from Twitter/Slack/Google Doc.
Eric Sherman · Wed 10 Aug 2016 2:29AM
Google Doc/Twitter/Slack before and after presentations is valuable and deserves to be implemented, but having a verbal Q & A moderated by the speaker allows for the best interaction experience between the community and the speaker. Not seeing the need at this stage for ongoing censorship beyond what happens naturally.