On Oct 9, 2013, at 1:30 AM, Melinda Shore
<melinda(_dot_)shore(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
Rough consensus - An agreement by almost everyone that the proposed
That's a lot like voting, I think.
It's worse than voting, because it encourages people to invite their friends to
sway the consensus. At least with voting you have the transparency of knowing
who the electorate is. So if this were what "rough consensus" meant, rough
consensus would most often be won by whoever has the most friends, which in
practice is probably whoever works for the biggest company. So whatever "rough
consensus" means, it can't mean "only a few people disagree."