Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-1251315-20140724203301

Currently, consensus is reached through majority vote, rather than discussions. The large amount of hostility generated in consensus threads is due to the fact that all consensus is NOT reached through a discussion but merely through arbitrary votings.

I am requesting that we change how consensus is reached and adopt the practices that Wikipedia has outlined for consensus and how polling is bad, as it was a real eye opener when I read their articles, which I've linked below:
 * Wikipedia:Consensus
 * Wikipedia:Polling is not a substitute for discussion

In every instance, polling has been a substitute for real discussion and there's currently no CT that involves discussion, excepting one made by Elchzard recently.

I am placing the voting templates here because they are important in this particular instance:  