⭐ Merited by Mitchell (1)
Personally, I don't see a problem with what OP posted...
In my view, you shouldn't delete someone's opinion because it's "inflammatory" or "reads like a troll attempt".
I think that a troll-post should be defined as one which is trying to provoke conflict (compared to one which maybe succeeds in creating conflict but that wasn't written for conflict's sake). As in, it's not trolling when you're saying upsetting things (even often or habitually) that you believe to be true. It's only trolling when you're saying things that you don't believe to be true (while secretly hoping that saying those things will greatly annoy some person/group/demographic). The rule against trolling is about as difficult to enforce in a mistake-free way as a rule against scamming would be (they both amount to often requiring clairvoyance on the part of the moderators).
If OP wants to tell the members of his local board that he thinks they're being greedy, he should be allowed to do that (and while it's always nice when someone manages to frame their perspective in a respectful way, it shouldn't be a requirement).
This sort of moderation gets too close IMO to a modern controlled-speech community where the freedom to share your viewpoint only exists when you haven't tripped over any of a long list of subjective rules meant to attenuate anything that anyone might find offensive.
One last thought: I guess, there's also a class of troll-like behavior where you do believe that what you're saying is true, but you also know that none of it is really germane to anything, and the primary reason you're bringing it up is because you're working some kind of agenda/angle/vendetta. But, to me, that falls into the (more general) category of "ax-grinding", and not the (more specific) category of "trolling". Hmm... I just looked up a definition for "ax-grinding", and according to Merriam-Webster it's "working for an ulterior purpose or toward a selfish end". I can't say that I completely agree with that definition, and this isn't the point that I set out to make, but, I'll be a monkey's uncle if that entry doesn't describe just about all human activity.
In my view, you shouldn't delete someone's opinion because it's "inflammatory" or "reads like a troll attempt".
I think that a troll-post should be defined as one which is trying to provoke conflict (compared to one which maybe succeeds in creating conflict but that wasn't written for conflict's sake). As in, it's not trolling when you're saying upsetting things (even often or habitually) that you believe to be true. It's only trolling when you're saying things that you don't believe to be true (while secretly hoping that saying those things will greatly annoy some person/group/demographic). The rule against trolling is about as difficult to enforce in a mistake-free way as a rule against scamming would be (they both amount to often requiring clairvoyance on the part of the moderators).
If OP wants to tell the members of his local board that he thinks they're being greedy, he should be allowed to do that (and while it's always nice when someone manages to frame their perspective in a respectful way, it shouldn't be a requirement).
This sort of moderation gets too close IMO to a modern controlled-speech community where the freedom to share your viewpoint only exists when you haven't tripped over any of a long list of subjective rules meant to attenuate anything that anyone might find offensive.
One last thought: I guess, there's also a class of troll-like behavior where you do believe that what you're saying is true, but you also know that none of it is really germane to anything, and the primary reason you're bringing it up is because you're working some kind of agenda/angle/vendetta. But, to me, that falls into the (more general) category of "ax-grinding", and not the (more specific) category of "trolling". Hmm... I just looked up a definition for "ax-grinding", and according to Merriam-Webster it's "working for an ulterior purpose or toward a selfish end". I can't say that I completely agree with that definition, and this isn't the point that I set out to make, but, I'll be a monkey's uncle if that entry doesn't describe just about all human activity.