every person running a node is voting on what consensus IS...

Nope, sorry. There's no vote going on. Running a node defines what are YOUR consensus rules, nothing else.

And if a bunch of nodes run different consensus, then they are voting to fork the chain.

Nope. They fork the chain because they have different consensus rules. There's no vote anywhere. Are you smoking something? 🤔

You are taking the word vote too literally. It's not a shitcoin with governance. I'm aware of that. They are voting with their freedom to choose their own rules.

Sorry, but it's you insisting every time in the 'vote' word. I'm taking it for what it means, just that. Don't know where you want to go... 🙄 I choose to keep chatting with you and I'm not voting for anything. I choose to use Nostr and I'm not voting for anything. I choose to use bitcoin and I'm not voting for anything. I choose to run a bitcoin node and I'm not voting for anything. Voting systems are for the majority to chose what everyone should do. In bitcoin there's no voting: everyone chooses freely what they want. Consensus is not voting, is an agreement between pairs.

When you run a node you are voting for a free monetary system and against a fiat one. Voting with your actions.

At his point I'm gonna assume that you don't know what voting is. Btw, I'm going to watch a movie at the cinema voting against another one. GN

Ever heard of voting with your wallet... Every time you spend money you're voting... Yes... It's probably the best voting metric in the world.

Vote: - an act of expressing a formal indication of choice. - the choice expressed collectively by a body of electors or by a specified group. There is no better way to indicate your choice than by what you choose to spend money or time on. You've got stuck in your head that there needs to be some formal call and count like an election for it to be voting.

It's great to express your choices, true, but voting is not that. You can use the words as you prefer, of course. But you can't change their meaning on others. Language is similar to Bitcoin: you can do whatever you want with it. You'll be in consensus with the people who have similar choices, and not with the rest. Take care. 🫂

Of course I've heard it several times, but I think it's misleading. Voting is not about expressing your opinion.