As a non-partisan non-profit that has hosted online political discussions with people from across the political spectrum -via email in particular- you need a well defined set of rules and a forum manager empowered to warn/remove those who violate civility rules. You also need participants willing to use the delete key on the posts that might politically offend them but are not uncivil (rather than pay for a moderator or censor).
Feel free to use/adapt our rules set or model to your needs: http://e-democracy.org/rules And http://e-democracy.org/if At E-Democracy.Org we require real names and limit people to an objective '2 posts in 24 hours.' We use GroupServer (GPL open source and much better than Mailman because it allows equitable web participation - see http://e-democracy.org/groupserver If you decide to create a list for political discussion among volunteers, its existence as an optional release value will allow you to more easily keep this task oriented forum focused. Cheers, Steven Clift _______________________________________________ Campaigns-l mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/campaigns-l
