How an issue is developed

Once several members have suggested an issue it enters the Issue Process.

Our LFDA editors will solicit the opinions of other members and, if there is a positive response, the issue be posed as a question in the “Issues Incubator” and comments invited.

• If the interest in the issue grows, or we see that it will soon become a major issue, we will reach out to find a knowledgeable issue editor, or editors, and begin the issue development process.

• The issue editors, together with our LFDA editor, will write the “Issue Facts” section about the issue and reach out to other knowledgeable people to write the Pros and Cons sections. The issue will then be published as an “Principal Issue” and all members will have the ability to comment in the Issue Forum. An “Principal Issue” that does not yet have an issue editor will be temporarily posted by an LFDA editor.

• Each Issue Forum will be presided over by a LFDA moderator who will monitor the Forum and delete any comments with inappropriate language.

• Substantive comments received in the Forum will be used to improve the Summary and Facts section or will be added to the Issue Pros and Cons in the discretion of the issue editors.