Open Town Hall Aims to Keep Online Public Forums Civil

Open Town Hall enables governments to provide constituents with online public comment forums that have the order and decorum of government meetings — thereby making the online forums civil, constructive, and legal.

More specifically, the problems that Open Town Hall solves for government include:
Diversifying community feedback beyond those few that have the time or inclination to attend public hearings;

Providing an alternative to online community blogs that are frequently filled with vitriolic attacks, dominated by a few extremists, and consequently uninviting for most constituents...