Yes, they absolutely can do something about it. The issue that Adam has is that a high percentage of the WTN voting power on the Vote for NNS Proposals was following CodeGov. This has been known and discussed for months. CodeGov created a vote relay app because I realized that these proposals were going to be a duplicate of the NNS from the beginning and didn’t want to do double work myself. We designed it so 1) anyone could use the CodeGov app to create their own relay pair or 2) fork the repo and control their own canister to create their own relay pair. I even offered to create vote relay pairs using CodeGov WTN neurons pairs with a variety of NNS known neurons. Nobody found it important enough to take advantage of any of these options.
CodeGov didn’t ask everyone to follow us and we certainly didn’t make it the only option available. You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink. Whatever though, I stand behind the votes that the CodeGov neuron cast. They were all based on educated and intentional decisions.
It was bound to happen that someone would complain. To Alex’s credit, he drew attention to the situation many times (for a while, he single handedly triggered the vote on Subnet Management since the CodeGov neuron was following him exclusively) and I supported his concerns while continuing to outline the different options that were available. This went on for months.
The votes that have been cast by WTN neuron owners are 100% according to the decisions that each individual neuron owner has made. Perhaps the right thing to do is for folks to start taking their voting power seriously enough to actually lift a finger and set up their following according to what they think is in their own best interest using the tools that are already available. We don’t need some complicated new voting mechanism when we don’t even have people taking personal responsibility for how their own voting power is triggered. The tools exist to make sure you vote your own way. Perhaps when the actual voting power controlled by WaterNeuron is significant it would make more sense to divide the voting power into smaller batches. Today, however, it doesn’t solve the real problem. The real problem is lack of people taking personal responsibility for their own vote.