As a concept, anonymizing vote on DHF proposals could offer more freedom to everyone to do what they want with their vote without assuming it publicly (which is what we do on legislative/local/presidential elections). So, there could bring out more voters who would like to keep their option private. Maybe... I don't know if it would be better or not to have not publicly assumed votes.
The other aspect is the technical one. It's one thing to have one person one vote, another to have a stakeweighted vote, where anonymity could easily be broken by matching HP to votes. That, of course, if things wouldn't go deeper, and the actual vote stake isn't obfuscated, but that would lead to many controversies and maybe making it hard to verify if votes are accurate and calculated properly.
So yeah, I guess the first step would be the option to have voting for and against instead of only for plus a threshold. But there are many reforms that are needed at a more granular level, that gives more power to the voters on releasing payments at delivery or milestones (this would be one type of project, others can't be fit into this category of projects - for example paying for some infrastructure operational costs, or for the HBD stabilizer).
There are advantages to anonymous voting although I understand that it's probably more complicated than it seems and might bring other issues. Honestly I know that there are those who will take it upon themselves to find out where the HP is coming from. However I think the ultimate way to get people involved is to make them anonymous.
This is probably simpler. I have participated in governance before and most of the time people want to participate but not face public scrutiny.
If we cannot actualize this, I think then, the DHF needs a massive overhauling. If for nothing but for potential investors who wants to put their faith in what we have here..
The easy way to do it but by giving up your choice of governance vote is to set a proxy. Then your stake votes on governance (or not, depending on the proxy), you aren't directly exposed to public scrutiny, but you also have no say regarding what your proxy votes for or doesn't.
I think I have used a proxy, I can't remember for what. However, I usually just ignore a proposal if I don't feel like it's worth voting for, most of them actually aren't.
Yeah, unfortunately. It's bad that people don't feel excitement to support a good part of what's being funded by the DHF.