Originally Posted by
Excargodog
I’m not at all sure a brainstorming session on a public forum meets the criteria for “negotiating in public”. May or may not be against the rules of the website, but in terms of constitutional law, seems pretty clear it’s legal enough. But you raise an interesting question. Probably time for a moderator to give their opinion.
It may or may not be a good idea, that's very situationally dependent.
But we don't have any rules against it here (this forum was actually founded back in the day because certain union folks were silencing dissent on their own forums, for questionable reasons).