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Recently, I've been looking at governance voting and it's a bit... To put it simply, when I open the page, I see a bunch of "delegated to someone" taking up most of the space. As a small retail investor, whether I vote or not feels like I’m just along for the ride. Clearly, it's called governance tokens, but it seems more like a contest of "who has the loudest voice, who has the broadest connections." I also admit I’m a bit envious of those big accounts that can be entrusted by thousands of people; it feels like they can change the rules with a single statement. I’m still calculating whether to spend that gas fee to cast a vote, which is quite awkward.
What’s even more annoying is that hardware wallets are out of stock now, and phishing links are rampant. People’s security awareness has improved, but it’s also led to: the more afraid they are, the less willing to act, and in the end, they just delegate all their votes to save trouble... which makes the oligarchs even more stable. Anyway, I’ll first review all the delegations I can revoke, so I don’t get "auto-voted" into strange proposals someday. That’s how I’ll do it for now.