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Re:Add Reactions to Pull Requests, Issues, and Comments by hayksaakian on Thursday March 10, 2016 @06:42PM (#11263477)
on facebook they say "like if you want A and share if you want B" obviously this is a 'viral marketing' ploy, but something similar would be simple for github

just write:

thumbs up if you want A smile if you want B

problem solved

Re:Add Reactions to Pull Requests, Issues, and Comments by gkoberger on Thursday March 10, 2016 @06:44PM (#11263493)
Or they could just have a thumbs-down button, and expect a higher level of discourse than Facebook.
Re:Add Reactions to Pull Requests, Issues, and Comments by jdoliner on Thursday March 10, 2016 @08:06PM (#11263916)
Or they could have trigger warnings for thumbs downs like tumblr. Best of all worlds.