Recent discussion about discussions

[Jakob Ovrum]

On Friday, 14 March 2014 at 19:04:17 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev 
wrote:
> 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.

If the point is to avoid +1's, I don't think that's possible in a 
way that isn't either equally intrusive or leaves NNTP users in 
the dark.