G'day Ryan,
David Gerard wrote:
It's explicitly Not A Vote, so it's hard to see how to get around this one.
I am tempted to summarily remove all tally boxes as blatant invitations to abuse of AFD as a straight vote.
Have you been in AFD recently? It is a vote. It always has been. "Consensus" is determined, in EVERY afd, by counting the number of delete votes versus the number of keep votes. Period. I recognize that the policy says it's not a vote, but the policy might as well say the moon is made of cheese.
In EVERY AfD? I've closed a few dozen now, and I've only rarely had to resort to counting votes --- and when I have, it's almost always ended up "no consensus keep", unless the count produced an overwhelming result.
So y'can reconsider the absolutes. Of course, in *principle* you may be correct, I'm not sure yet. If so, well, I look forward to your comments on my RfC in approximately two weeks' time.
Cheers,