I'm a little concerned that the entire MN network can reach 80%+ compliance with a protocol bump within 48 hours, but that 96 hours after an MN vote is initialized, we still have less than 50% participation...and the voting process is not that difficult (log into VPS, type "./dashd masternode vote yea" and log off VPS).
The vote is open for 2 weeks.
If you look at the Etherum sale, most were sold at the last minute. People were (conjecture) waiting to see what was what.
Then there are those that don't keep up with the threads (or go MIA, see
above).
Being on the wrong protocol means you can get bumped off the network, so I guess people check for some things.
Also, abstain basically = no. What's to say no voters can't be bothered to vote, because they have by default?
It's true that abstain is a "soft" no, but all abstentions become irrelevant once the preset quorum is reached (in this case, 50%+1). I doubt abstention is presently being used as a negative voting strategy, since a "hard" no would be durable no matter how many people had voted. At this point, abstentions look like apathy.
P.S. I'm wondering of Otoh's 25% of the MN network has voted or not. If not, it could indicate that he is reluctant to overly influence the project (unlike what some detractors have said) in which case it implies that only 25% of the network is not participating.
Thanks ddink7, this is exactly correct.
I was aware that the vote had a two week deadline and decided to leave it for a week at least before voting because of not wishing to potentially overly influence such a crucial vote, or appear to even if this wasn't the case, this also fitted in with my being afk traveling, I haven't checked this thread since page 4993 until today.
I had a good networking at the BitPay European HQ hosted FinTech conference in Amsterdam last week, meeting a DASH supporter who is looking to add substantially to his holdings and which I've offered to help him with when the time is right.
Today I met up with Holger/flare in Germany where I'm enjoying three days, it was him who made the MN vote for me - just as simple as doing a start-many but I hadn't yet looked in to it, really good to meet him, we had some excellent beers and very good chats, alles ist gut.