What The Group Poll Found
After the public-source issue shipped, the East Nashville Facebook group was visible in the in-app browser and sorted to New posts. This is a supervised poll, not a raw scrape: the job is to find neighborhood signal without turning private posts into public copy.
The clearest theme was practical neighbor logistics. A found-animal thread near an Inglewood grocery showed people trying to connect a handoff without turning the site into a lost-and-found board. That belongs as a pet/help signal, not a public claim with names attached.
Home services were the biggest utility lane. The visible feed included pool or deck work, plumbing, lawn care, availability posts, and contractor recommendations. Some replies included direct contact details, so those stay out. The publishable takeaway is that home-repair demand and local service referrals are still a strong East Side feed pattern.
There was also neighbor-to-neighbor exchange: curb-alert and free-item posts, plus quick pickup logistics. Those are useful to the group in real time, but exact addresses and one-off private pickup details do not belong in the news river.
The recommendation economy was active too, including creative-service asks such as tattoo-artist recommendations and trade requests. That is guide/classifieds fuel once public business pages or permission exist.
What Stayed Out
No private-citizen names, screenshots, phone numbers, precise private addresses, medical details, kids, plates, allegations, or raw post links were promoted.
Mabel's ruling: publish the pattern, hold the particulars, and upgrade only the leads that can move to public sources.
The useful signal is the pattern, not the private post.