Lately, governance voting has been a bit of a spectacle: a bunch of people say "community decides," but when you click in, it's all just a few big votes delegated from a pile of proxy votes. Honestly, tokens are like ballots, but delegation is like handing your ballot over to the class monitor for safekeeping, and in the end, the class monitors discuss among themselves to make the decision.

I thought delegation would increase participation, but the more delegated, the more oligarchic it becomes: ordinary people are too lazy to research, so they just follow the crowd; big players prefer to band together, which is easier and more stable. Airdrop season is also quite ironic—task platforms suppress the witch-hunting and points systems turn the grifters into clock-in workers, but when it comes to governance—something that requires thinking and doesn't give immediate rewards—everyone just delegates with one click.

My current approach is pretty cowardly: I only vote on proposals I truly care about; otherwise, I’d rather not vote at all, and I don’t want to leave the decision of "who to govern" to strangers with big addresses. Anyway... who governance tokens ultimately govern might first be the very attention we pay to it.