people want to participate but not face public scrutiny
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.