Ask HN: How do you deal with social media pressure on your GitHub project?

Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with social media pressure on you... by waxjar on Sunday July 12, 2015 @03:14PM (#9874547)

I think GitHub needs a "+1" button for issues. It'll give maintainers some insight as to what priority to give an issue, without spamming them with e-mails. Asking users not to comment with comments such as "+1", or even turning off comments, hides this information.

This will solve the issue partly.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with social media pressure on you... by xmj on Sunday July 12, 2015 @09:07PM (#9875793)

> This will solve the issue partly.

On the contrary; it will turn the whole thing into something that can be gamed even better by those who are good at rallying, organizing mobs, and shaming people into doing what the mob organizers can't do on their own.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with social media pressure on you... by sebie on Sunday July 12, 2015 @07:31PM (#9875446)

I think a optional "+1" would be better. And / or something like an optional post format -- if you want a poll you can enable "+1" 's. If not just disable it or change the post format.

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