Highly recommended reading for effectively understanding the behavior patterns of bad-faith participants in such exchanges: https://www.scribd.com/document/345154863/Guide-to-Forum-Spi...

If the link goes down, the content is available in many other places across the web under the title "The Gentleman's Guide To Forum Spies (spooks, feds, etc.)"

From the other direction, the ITU-T has a highly regarded presentation on how to actually work with consensus procedures & establish said consensus:

https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/tutorials/202203/Documents/Rein...