Hi hubbers,
Since the good old Rails days (http://twitter.com/alloy/status/519116631088586752) the +1’s in comments have taken on a life of their own and are nowadays often only a burden to repo collaborators. (They add noise and can be perceived as passive-aggressive nudges.)
As unfortunately very few people read CONTRIBUTING guidelines, this phenomena is hard to combat and can be very tiresome. Therefore I’d like to propose the following feature (which was suggested to me http://twitter.com/StepanHruda/status/519116960446312448):
- As an issue filer, I would like to be able to mark an issue as being open for ‘votes’, so that I can signal to people that +1’s are appreciated and I can easily keep a tally.
- As a repo admin, I would like to be able to disallow +1’s on a repo-wide basis, so that tickets that are not marked as taking votes are kept clean.
While we could possibly make a tool for the automation of the latter ourselves (by deleting such comments), it would probably work better when implemen