We want to engage the community in a meaningful, daily conservation about topics selected by the public and Gazette brand editors. Gazette editors will determine questions using the following criteria:

• Relevance to the website’s target audience
• Timeliness
• Ability to generate website traffic
• Audience requests

In order to engage lively, informed conversation we want to ask questions that do the following:

• Create or add to knowledge being disseminated
• Generate proposed solutions to problems
• Entertain us, but without making personal attacks on individuals

Questions that do this:

• Are free of inherent bias or points of view (open to comments from all perspectives)
• Include enough background information to appropriately frame the issue
• Include links to related content or background information as appropriate
• Are well-defined, to keep users from veering off topic
• Don’t revisit obsolete or dated issues, although new developments that return the issue to the public forefront will appear

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