Because this was a vote being weighed by stake, not one vote one person (reflecting the DPoS governance model of Steem) individuals were told they could vote with as many accounts as they wanted.

Many users have their stake spread out over multiple accounts, and therefore had to vote with many to be counted. Only “owned” stake, not delegated, was weighed so accounts that are seen as more “non personal” still have their own stake, and a person working behind the project.

All these votes are fair and were explained from the beginning as such.

As far as the turnout, yeah I wish it was higher.

But everyone was “allowed” to vote, they were encouraged, it was trending, pinned by Steemit Inc. and many other things. There was no roar from the community about not wanting to support it, so I believe the number still shows consensus on those paying attention. We also have nothing to compare the number to, as we have never done anything like this before.

Some people didn’t understand it enough, as it was a quite technical decision, and they just didn’t see how they could give input. Some only use the site to blog and just don’t pay too much attention to anything else. Some will just never care enough to get involved and only will complain, or my favorite in this situation “I’m not voting because there aren’t enough people voting so it doesn’t make sense.” 🙂

We can’t force people to care.

I think it’s pretty amazing that over 400 active people on this platform do care enough to pay attention to this very long and somewhat confusing process and actually showed up to have their voices heard.

Others will just show up to upvote comments that are somewhat critical or to bash the whole thing as they didn’t like something about it, rather than get involved to try to fix anything. That’s just the world we live in... the doers will keep doing.. the rest will either benefit from the work done or find something else to complain about.

Either way, I think this is the start of something beneficial for the community and I’m glad we have so many that see that and care enough to show up. 🙂