The Town of Norfolk Bylaws, Article I, Section 7, Subsection D, Paragraph 1 “Conduct of Speakers (Addressing Town Meeting)” gives rules for addressing Town Meeting. Similar rules, somewhat adjusted for a written, web-based discussion prior to the start of the Town Meeting, apply in this forum.
- Confine your remarks to the article under consideration.
- Avoid personal attacks, inappropriate language, or uncivil conduct of any type. Although you may disagree with another’s opinion, do not make personal remarks against the person expressing that opinion.
- Please enter your posts mostly in lower case, only capitalizing the first letter of a sentence, a proper noun, and (where that is the common usage) the entirety of an acronym or initialism.
- Unless your post makes an explicit statement about it, if your login name includes a title or official capacity, it is assumed that you are speaking in that capacity. Similarly, if your login name doesn’t include a title or official capacity, it is assumed that you are speaking for yourself. So, if your login name includes a title or official capacity, but your post represents your personal views, please state that explicitly. Similarly, if your login name doesn’t include a title or official capacity, but you are speaking on behalf of a group, please state that explicitly.
- If someone is speaking on behalf of a group (as indicated by the title included at the beginning of the person’s login name or by an explicit statement), the person might not personally agree with the group’s statement that he is delivering.
