The info of the discussion tag here on Meta reads:
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
How do we define “consensus” when it comes to meta discussions?
It’s obviously complicated, so let’s just imagine a discussion with only two literal answers “Yes” and “No”. TheI suppose the easiest way to reach consensus is obviously counting the votes, but:
- How exactly do we count? Do
Do only upvotes count, or do we take the displayed vote score (upvotes-downvotes)? If the latter, what if a user upvotes one answer and downvotes the other one? - When do we call it a community consensus? Does
Does the highest voted answer reflect the community’s opinion from the moment the question is posted on? Or does an answer need a certain vote count? Which?
What do we do with questions with just one answer, does this automatically become consensus when it reaches a certain vote count? Which?
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