Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-4984687-20150326211251/@comment-4984687-20150329195544

SuperSajuuk wrote: 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. I'm only talking about voting in MOTM, Consensus against a user and Staff applications.