Abstract: A method includes executing instructions associated with a public engagement computing platform on a server, publishing an agenda of a live event on the public engagement computing platform, and determining a set of trusted locations corresponding to a set of users of a number of client devices accessing the agenda. The method also includes analyzing communication pertinent to the agenda from at least a subset of the set of users, scoring at least the subset of the set of users based on the analyzed communication in accordance with the determined set of trusted locations and a relevance of the analyzed communication with respect to the agenda, and, in accordance with the scoring, determining a placement of the analyzed communication in an order of publicly viewable analyzed communication that is part of all analyzed communication pertinent to the agenda.