On Oct 9, 2013, at 1:30 AM, Melinda Shore <melinda.shore@xxxxxxxxx> 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."