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Need to create a group to collect public opinion

 

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NY State has had an executive order that all communities with a police force establish a committee of its citizens to review and re-imagine its policing.? I am on the committee for the Town of Ulster in the Kingston, NY area.
We have made our review and are about to present it to the public and solicit public opinion.? I have run a couple of groups since Yahoo Groups folded and naturally thought of groups.io...

But, having begun to create a groups.io group, I realized we don't really want a discussion group (which could turn into a combative free for all on the charged issue of policing), rather we want a "bucket" to collect opinion, a private group:
  • listed in the directory
  • that would allow non-members to post (I realize that the posts would necessarily be moderated)
  • whose postings would be then be visible to the people on the committee...who would be its members
  • but the postings would not be visible to the public

Yes, this is a poll...but:

  • of the simplest kind (what do you think/feel)
  • I want this to be a free group, which no longer supports polls

The reason I'm thinking of making this a private group is that if the group and its postings were to be seen (as well as being posted to) publicly it could turn into a battleground and a headache to moderate and present in a civil productive fashion.

So my question: can private group allow postings by non-members?

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// Stewart Dean == Kingston, NY
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