We are indeed treated like a pariah in the cryptoworld, but I don't think much of it stems from the name DPOS.
IMO, the problem lies much deeper.
Anyway, if we change DPOS to something else, this would be the most likely reaction:
"You see? They're trying to hide the problems we were talking about."
While actually the opposite is true: we have not identified any fatal problems and DPOS has proved to be something much more powerful than anybody could've expected 2 years ago.
If we can afford changing names, I think the name "BitShares" is our biggest marketing liability.
Never too late to fix it...