Kintsugi: Proposal 82's History and Future

this essay also lives on github , PRs welcome TL;DR Summary • We can learn valuable lessons for the future of Hub governance by understanding the history of Proposal 82 • Proposal 82 had the highest number of token votes ever in Cosmos Hub governance • Unclear voting outcomes, chaotic communications platforms, and too large a proposal negatively impacted the proposal process and played a role in creating an unhealthy governance culture • Signaling proposals can be unproductive if execution outcomes are unclear • The creation of a decentralized knowledge base can improve the quality of governance discussions, reduce governance noise, and make it easier for more people to participate constructively in Cosmos governance • Epistemic-status proposals (proposals that gauge confidence in the completeness of an idea) can help us improve our collective decision-making skills and create a healthier governance culture that produces more effective proposals Overview This essay seeks to provide an overview of the narrative about Proposal 82, dissect the role that trust played in the voting outcomes, and outline a methodology by which we can use available…

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Thanks for this post! I love the dedication you have put into putting this together and finding ways to improve the pitfalls we saw. For me 2 things “spoiled” the discussion around ATOM2.0; • first of all the various sources where information was shared. We saw the forum, Twitter, Telegram and podcasts all jumping around whereas such a sensitive subject benefits from slow, thoughtful communication. I have said time and time again that Twitter is a good medium for quick, short messages to notify people, but it is a very terrible medium for discussions (which has proven to be true the past few months). I am not sure how to fix though, since it is cool that many people can interact, but it also heavily dilutes useful input. Some way of easy sifting through posts would be a major useful addition to the set of tools we have • the discussion was ok before all the personal attacks started. By that point the discussion turned into a battle from 2 camps in trenches, which was really bad for any constructive input. For this there is no magic solution besides having the requirement that everyone behaves as adult and steps over its own shadow to be hard in the discussion, but…

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Thanks for the response! LeonoorsCryptoman: For me 2 things “spoiled” the discussion around ATOM2.0; LeonoorsCryptoman: the various sources where information was shared Yes, I agree that is a huge problem. It’s very difficult to keep up with the information, especially if governance participants have other obligations. A community effort to archive this content and place it in an open, repository can help create a single source of truth without reducing the liveliness of discussions by trying to funnel it. The tool can be further improved by providing a strong UX for archiving and adding content for archivists, and making it easy to reference that content in discussion. I think this point is largely a tooling problem. LeonoorsCryptoman: all the personal attacks started I also wholeheartedly agree here. I do think that some of these attacks arise from people being unable to keep track of the original discussion though. People lose the track of what to focus on over a prolonged conversation across many platforms, with the result that it becomes easier, cognitively, to just paint the sides with stereotypes (one good, one bad) and…

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Yeah, having the opportunity to channel the discussion to 1 channel would help, with a 2nd layer involved where regular summarized updates are provided.

Will this take a lot of time to do?
Yes, for sure! But it will also add a lot of value.

In the ATOM2.0 discussion I saw many individuals coming up with the same posts. That can be avoided if people can find more easy if their comment has already been placed.