Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-4984687-20150326211251/@comment-1251315-20150329194322

I guess that's true, but discussions should be preferred over voting though. Yes, in cases where there are only two outcomes, it might be preferable to support/oppose, but a discussion could prove more beneficial and provide better outcomes other than "they keep/lose their flags". Heck, discussions could result in new user group flags being created, or simply giving people a better way of contributing to a consensus.

I'm not saying we should remove voting, but we should really reduce our reliance on it: in the consensus discussion I made to suggest we do more discussions, less voting, it was pointed out that straw polls are probably better to quickly get the consensus.