2009/8/28 Emily Monroe bluecaliocean@me.com:
A true consensus requires everyone to agree (or, at least, not object).
You're right.
That is why things like RFA work on "rough consensus", which actually just means a vote.
See, my vision of "rough consensus" is something like "If you eliminate people who !vote without leaving any comment to debate upon, and who hasn't participate in the debate elsewhere, or who do something like WP:WHYNOT, WP:NOTNOW, or WP:I[DON'T]LIKEIT what do you get?" I guess this would be a vote in a sense, albeit a very skewed one.
Sure, but that's not what the phrase is actually used to mean.