> Following this advice and using a tone that even resembles the tone of the comment or the original post will make you look/sound crazy. School boards (government boards in general) are used to seeing vocal, crazy people and are good at not taking crazy people seriously.

I agree with the general point of your comment but this is simply not true any more. I’m not sure it was ever true, but recent coverage of school boards and environmental review public consultation throughout the United States demonstrates that it certainly isn’t true in 2022.