Async approvals stall when the request only asks for “thoughts”

A remote-work question about writing approval requests with decision, deadline, default outcome, and objection path.

Async approval requests often stall because they ask for “thoughts” when the team actually needs a decision. I prefer naming the decision, approvers, deadline, default outcome, and objection path at the top. That makes it clear whether silence means approval, unread backlog, or a blocker. What fields do you include before treating an async review as done?