If you don't mind me asking, why is this conversation open to comments from non-employees? Having discussions be publicly viewable seems valuable, but letting

If you don't mind me asking, why is this conversation open to comments from non-employees? Having discussions be publicly viewable seems valuable, but letting anyone at all participate seems disruptive and unhelpful (as an outside party, I was having trouble following the thread of employee discussion interrupted as it was by internet furor).