I think it's a good thing for BTS if any CEX want to participate community more deeply, they can really care about BTS community.
And it's acceptable for me any CEX can vote, only when they have a clearly notification to each BTS trader, something like: "I will vote with your shares, if you don't agree my choise, don't trade in my exchange."
it's a cheating if they didn't mention clearly.
what I really care about is not who vote, but if these share owners who involved the vote have their own brain.
It's a bad thing if the CEX's customers give their vote power to CEX but without their own brain. they didn't care about what they vote.
Just as bad as sometimes some proxy said " I didn't known how it work, but I trust xxx, so I voted".
It's acceptable for me anybody can make any mistake because of knowledge limit. but it's not acceptable for me that all others support the mistake without brain.
I saw zb have already involved the vote, wish they will really help BTS growth, and give a clear notification about vote in the website.
I agree with this sentiment. New players can be beneficial. The only addition that I would see is "communications and activity with the community".
Communications because every idea (like BSIP42) needs to be discussed, formed, modified and those that vote should establish an opinion about what they are voting for (or not voting for)
Activity because it would hurt the ecosystem if a voter voted for a stale witness and doesn't take the time to correct their votes.
Other then that, I am curious to see how this plays out long term.