Geoffrey Plourde geo.plrd@yahoo.com wrote: If it would make you happier, the consensus provision can be changed to a 60% majority.
We can rarely achieve a 60% majority consensus for most issues on this list, and its membership is smaller than that of an all-inclusive assembly. Depending on voting also makes numerical superiority more important than meaningful debate, so that a cultural or special-interest minority (likely including en-Wikipedia) would dominate the community through the assembly using numerical superiority. Reaching many bad decisions due to poor representation is worse than reaching few good decisions.