There is always a room for improvement.
For example many Hivers don't take witness voting even seriously and don't vote at all. Some don't even know it exists. Or they are not voting for any proposals, that's also bad.
This way a lot of the things HIVE blockhain offers is still in hands of a very small minority that know about this stuff.
There should also be a witness voting decay.
So how to convince people to vote? I myself was thinking of creating a community witness that would share it's rewards. If you would vote for this witness and also 29 others, you would share the rewards or something like that. It's in the making. I will make a post about it later to know opinions of others.
People should only vote for witnesses they trust. There's absolutely no need to use all 30 votes.
True. No need to use all 30, but even 1 is better than 0.
One possibility would be to allow people to stack their witness votes.
Many people don't even know 30 witnesses, why they cannot f.e. add for 10 witnesses they know the 30 votes, 3 for everybody. This would also cut down the influence of the whales, as in the moment you have no chance to overvote a whale cause he has 30-times more power than you, but if you could stack your votes it would be in another way at least if the whale want to determine 20 or 30 witnesses (clear you need also high Hivepower, but f.e. in the moment if you have 50% of the hivepower of a whale - every vote has double power than yours, if you could stack f.e. three votes with your 10 votes you had 50% more power than the whale you voted for 30 witnesses).
This sounds interesting.
Thank you for your feedback @eirik
While I agree with you that the lack of involvement in witnesses and proposals vote is sad, I believe this is more a "user education" than a "blockchain and its rules" issue.
It takes time for people to deep dive into all the blockchain mechanisms and some are not even aware of their favorite (d)app is running on top of a blockchain, which can also be considered a good thing.
This is being currently discussed.