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Recently looking at governance votes for some projects, the more I look, the more it seems like “delegation = outsourcing with a conscience.”
To put it simply, it's not that people have no ideas, they’re just too lazy to research; they just click and hand their votes over to KOLs or big holders, and of course, the result becomes more and more oligarchic: who does the token govern? Mostly helping the largest holders to smooth out the process.
Social mining, fan tokens, that “attention equals mining” approach also feels similar; it’s lively and bustling, but in the end, it still comes down to who can continuously buy exposure and buy consensus… (I’ve also advised in groups not to delegate everything in a fit of excitement, but I was seen as a killjoy.)
Now I just treat placing orders as a form of cultivation: if I can vote myself, I vote myself; I really don’t understand why I’d rather not vote—at least don’t bundle the uncertainty and send it out.