Voting for forum posts

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On Thursday, 1 April 2021 at 08:40:10 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev 
wrote:
>
> - The only way I can think of to translate the votes to the 
> NNTP/email medium is either converting them to messages which 
> have nothing but a +1 (which is very spammy), or not doing it 
> at all. Neither is ideal.

Every time a new feature for the newsgroup comes up, and it gets 
shot down because it wouldn't work for people using email, I 
immediately think of https://xkcd.com/1782.