Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-3076045-20150505180540/@comment-25356303-20150508182808

The Rim of the Sky wrote: Pelinal Whitestrake wrote: The Rim of the Sky wrote: Pelinal Whitestrake wrote: Donut. We're not using polls to determine the outcome, we're votes to see what peoples' viewpoints are. This is a "yes or no" consensus, I don't see what else can result. So?

My neutral vote is due to Donuts. People have to give a legitimate reason to express their viewpoint. I don't know what you're trying to prove by fooling around. Pelinal previously said:

"...But no, what happens instead is a bland poll in which people can give the absurdest reasons for a vote - hell, I could probably just give "Donut" as a reason for a support or oppose vote and it'd be fully okay and miraculously ignored by the policy-writers..."

Pelinal is poking fun at our CT system; oftentimes in the past, a consensus was reached purely by vote count, regardless of the actual reasoning behind the votes.

(Note that while the number of votes should certainly be taken into account, we have now been trying to prioritize discussion over voting for consensuses)