Add Reactions to Pull Requests, Issues, and Comments

Re:Add Reactions to Pull Requests, Issues, and Comments by jahewson on Thursday March 10, 2016 @11:40PM (#11264679)

My experience of open source projects is that people dish out +1's freely and are reluctant to -1 as it signifies conflict. +1 is arguably the more ambiguous for that reason as it can mean "I didn't read the issue but I like you and what you're saying at a glance looks non-insane" or "meh" or "I love it". You're really underestimating the ammount of politics that can factor into these things, people will +1 something that they 90% disagree with because of who's saying it, don't kid yourself otherwise.

Nobody really cares if you +1 something crazy, maybe you were just feeling agreeable that day, or you misunderstood the comment. But if you -1 sensible things you're going to get a bad reputation pretty quickly.

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Re:Add Reactions to Pull Requests, Issues, and Comments by joeyespo on Friday March 11, 2016 @12:04AM (#11264752)

> are reluctant to -1 as it signifies conflict

That's because people don't tend to write "-1", but rather disagree with a comment explaining why. GitHub is full of disagreement. We'd be in a much worse place if that was all expressed through downvotes instead of comments (unless of course, an issue is explicitly opting in to a vote).

> people will +1 something that they 90% disagree with because of who's saying it, don't kid yourself otherwise.

Ok yeah, you're right about the politics. Bad example. But in open source, I've seen much more comment-based pushback regardless of author.

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Re:Add Reactions to Pull Requests, Issues, and Comments by gardano on Friday March 11, 2016 @04:17AM (#11265576)

> what you're saying at a glance looks non-insane

That's like 90% of the PR's I look at.

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