I own 2 MNs, and just like voting in local/state and federal elections, I make every one (well, I've screwed up a few times, forgetting) but on the whole, been voting many a decade and have participated in nearly all voting opportunities.  It's a matter of caring.

And no, for Dash, the votes are more like votes from shareholders.  The more shares you have, the more votes you have.  But in the same way, the more shares you have, the more you're invested, the more you risk and thus the more interest you have in making sure things go in the right direction.

So far, we only have been voting on basics.  Marketing: trips to conventions and booths, website, web domain, etc..., developer salaries, and a very few pay-backs of projects people have done that really can be inserted under Marketing.

We haven't even had anything "different" other than DashWhale, who couldn't even get funding to host the proposal forum, which is sad.  I would like to see a proposal forum in many locations, that sync to each other so that it's decentralized, but I don't see how we can do that if we don't fund them.

Anyway, I think some people are afraid to make a choice on funding, and don't have the time to keep up like some of us do here.  If I were still working, there would be no way I could keep up with what's going on here.  And then I wouldn't know how to vote.

Also, we don't have enough time to review proposals.  Generally, people are just giving us a couple of weeks, that's not enough to discuss and argue.  I think, for this to work best, we should do this in 2 steps.  First, gather the proposals, then spend 1 month discussing them before they're open for voting.  Then vote. 

But right now, we're doing so many things on the fly, when they come up, that the above doesn't give us the nimbleness we need.  But once we're big, we'll need to set down rules and regulations.  That's still a long way off though