Former ENS director of operations remains at foundation after voting against his own removal

cointelegraph.com:

Brantly Millegan will be staying on as the director of the Ethereum Name Service Foundation after casting more than 363,300 votes against a decentralized autonomous organization proposal to remove him.

According to a tally of roughly 3.7 million ENS DAO votes recorded at the end of the voting period on March 5, more than 1.6 million were against removing Millegan as director of the ENS Foundation — 43.39% of the vote. More than 698,000 votes abstained from the proposal, while roughly 1.4 million votes were in favor of Millegan’s removal — 19.1% and 37.51%, respectively.

The controversial #ENS vote that ended Saturday, broken down by delegated voting power.(reposted as there was an error in the first) pic.twitter.com/s7MaAoHniA

However, many DAO users noted that Millegan used more than 363,000 tokens to vote against his own removal, which tipped the total in his favor. Many of the votes were delegated by DAO users prior to the controversy that precipitated the vote, in which Millegan stood by tweets he posted in May 2016 with anti-LBGTQIA statements including "homosexual acts are evil” and “transgenderism doesn’t exist.” The former ENS director of operations said the tweets were in accordance with his Catholic faith.

“Ultimately Brantly chose not to abstain from this vote and voted Against isn’t neutral either,” said DAO member Eric Hu, who voted for Millegan’s removal. “He falls short even of his own ideals [...] For all the talk about credible neutrality and building infrastructure, this would have been the time to abstain, but he chose self-preservation.”

This infrastructure is too crucial for what could be the next chapter of the internet. Regardless of his beliefs, he’s just exhibited bad leadership in an already