Recent discussion about discussions

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Friday, 14 March 2014 at 08:27:11 UTC, Jakob Ovrum wrote:
> On Friday, 14 March 2014 at 08:23:39 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev 
> wrote:
>> This approach would mean that mailing list users would get an 
>> email every time someone upvotes something.
>>
>> I don't think this will work very well in practice.
>
> I'm not suggesting an upvote button. Hopefully it would work 
> just like now, where people usually leave explanatory comments 
> with their +1's.

Oh, sorry - somehow missed that part of your post.

Well, this suggestion carries the problem of turning "+1" into 
actual syntax recognized by some software and thus encouraging 
using them :) anyway, I thought the point of voting was to avoid 
+1 posts in the first place.