Improvements aimed at increasing voting participation

[svk31]

By neura-sx:
Voting apathy is a serious vulnerability for the blockchain. It can be assumed that a lot of users don't vote because they don't realize that. These are simple changes that are aimed to alleviate this problem to some extent:

(1) If the system finds out that an account has a balance of e.g. 100k BTS (or more) and is not voting (i.e. no proxy set and there is no support for at least 10 witnesses), it should display a red warning in the footer (just as we have it for the wallet backup reminder).

(2) On the voting page there should be a clear instruction that the easiest way to vote is to select a proxy. To facilitate the choice of proxies a link to this forum board should be offered in the GUI:
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/board,104.0.html

(3) It's much easier to vote when you have a list to choose from (as we have it for worker proposals) instead of typing an account name. Currently we cannot compile a list of active proxies but a list of available accounts should be doable for witnesses and committee members.

[svk31]

abitmore: Better to vote by select/click but not input. Currently only worker proposals are being voted this way.

wmbutler: @abitmore , very good point. I'll add it to the list above.

wbmutler: Voting needs a UX overhaul as well. I'll work on this.

abitmore: Some suggestions in this post: https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,20962.0.html, too long and unfinished so haven't copy&pasted here.

[grctest]

I've been discussing the potential concept of vote weight degradation - once you vote, it slowly degrades over a period of say 6 months (or longer, depending on voting participation), which would encourage witnesses to continuously interact with the community in an attempt to remain in power.

https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,23330.0.html

[wmbutler]

Need a UI overhaul for voting. This will likely be an epic.