A representative system could be worth considering, imho it'd be an ideal thing to test out the ID and trust systems on. There's likely to be a lot of proposals covering areas that few really give a damn about but someone they trust might and would let them decide on their behalf if given the option.
Absolutely not! With the internet the is no reason someone can't vote for themselves. Once you move your vote to a proxy, that proxy controls the outcome. Dash is the first 'fair' voting system. There isn't a group of people moving vote counts around or counting votes....This is truly unique, let's not screw it up.
I do agree with TanteSteffana, we need more time to vote. 4 weeks seems fair, 5 days like the last one was tough. I don't see any need for discussion before hand. Whoever wants to make a proposal either gets opinions before hand, or doesn't. Just give a few more weeks time to vote and then everyone should be able to participate, if they want to.
Let's just create a proposal deadline. Get your proposal in by x days before or it gets bumped to the next months budget. Simple.
So another option could be that people getting paid from a proposal can't vote on it. I have mixed views here...Any owner of dash should be able to vote, but the vote will sway toward those that benefit. A more fair approach is just to bump the % to get over the hurdle of the I have enough node % to vote my proposal in.
Think if we had the blockdebate vote. I bet we would have 98% participation with a 48% to 50% vote. Your vote may not make much of a difference on simple proposals, but with a heated topic that vote will be worth a lot.