Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-10733658-20160308081004/@comment-24494906-20160314020027

^ (Rough) Consensus is not unanimity. It's also not a matter of voting. (That is why I dislike it when such discussions are titled "vote". They are not.)

Consensus is the usual way to make decisions, especially major ones (and a site-wide change is certainly a major one), on wikis. Wikipedia uses it, for example (see Wikipedia:Consensus). We have also used it previously (for example the Mutsuki gender discussion).

If there is no consensus, the usual solution is to negotiate - maybe there's a solution that is at least acceptable for everyone. But because this discussion is titled "vote", nobody is trying to find such a middle ground.

Well, I won't be the one to make the call if consensus has been reached (since I participated in this discussion), but I'm pessimistic.