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Re:Dear GitHub by Rovanion on Friday January 15, 2016 @06:07AM (#10908494)
If one implemented issue voting then a +1 comment could automatically be converted into a vote.
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Re:Dear GitHub by DouweM on Friday January 15, 2016 @06:18AM (#10908536)
Which is almost exactly what happens on GitLab: https://twitter.com/gitlab/status/687930087057027073

Users can use those buttons to +1 or -1, and any comments that contain nothing but an emoji (like `:+1:`) are automatically converted to emoji awards, as we call them.

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