[WikiEN-l] Voting and "!voting", what's the difference?

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/8/28 Emily Monroe <bluecaliocean at 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.