Adopting a discussion platform like Kialo will help improve the quality of Ethereum's political + governance debates.

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Pro: The tone of a debate and how people engage with each other on Kialo is much more levelheaded, civil and to the point than on other platforms.

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Pro: Kialo makes it much easier for new participants in a debate to back-track and understand where the discussion stands, what arguments have been made for and against, as well as how strong participants rate those arguments.

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Pro: Kialo discussions would make for a nice library of decisions that could be accessed by the public, management, devs and users months/years later to see why a decision was made.

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Pro: Kialo, once you figured it out, makes reading and contributing to discussions much quicker and easier.

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Pro: Dramatically improves the existing signal to noise ratio within Ethereum's governance conversations online.

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Pro: Makes it more difficult for individuals or small groups to brigade the discussion and wield significant influence without being noticed.

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Pro: Not having a face, a name, a follower count or a big bag of karma next to your comment pro or con levels the playing field and refocuses the issue on .... the issue, rather than the personality behind the idea.

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Pro: There will be greater community buy in when they are able to participate in decisions, at the design stage. Upcoming decisions could be sent as a Kialo RFC to members.

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Con: Discussion participants have to learn a new tool and how to go about using it.

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Con: It could been seen as disempowering to participants in Crypto Twitter conversations and Reddit threads.

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Con: This furthers an existing issue - there are too many forums and feeds to follow already! We don't need more!

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Con: It will be difficult to determine when to use a tool like this - we can't use it for everything. Who determines this?