edit: All easier said than done! I still think there would be room for improvement if strategic decisions are first discussed with a more inner circle trying to foresee some of the consequences of spontaneous thoughts instead of re-engineering the BitShares system live in forum discussions. Personally (as a shareholder) I don't have a need for that kind of openness. I trust you and your decision making capabilities. I can comment on proposals later.
There have been a lot of expected and well-founded complaints about BM putting proposals into the threads that have hurt people financially, leading BM to make subsequent comments about doing less of this in future. But before we decide that's the best approach, let's think what would happen if decisions were made in an inner circle, and then put to the community only in final form. Unavoidably, just as many people would get hurt, and just as many would be unhappy. Only now, there is absolutely no chance of movement on the proposal based on feedback, and therefore the final solution may end up being even less optimal.
Also there are many claims that early and maybe ambiguous statements make people panic sell. I don't think this is necessarily true - people buy or sell based on the information and probabilities as they perceive them at the time. By the time the proposal is finalised, these movements have largely played out. The market gyrations would have happened anyway if the whole thing was made in secret and suddenly disclosed to everybody, perhaps more viciously. Only difference is timing.
I agree some better framing and PR is warranted, especially with regard to messages getting out to an external audience. But I really hope that does not mean that transparency reduces a whole lot. After all, I see transparency as one of the major advantages of this business model over traditional ones.
I know a lot of people feel wronged and will disagree with me, that's OK.
Edit: Maybe something that could work better is to indicate a date and time in advance of when an important proposal is going to be made. At least it does not appear quite as spontaneous, and everybody has advance notice and it does not feel like we need to constantly watch the forum for fear of missing a radical proposal.