It's often not immediately obvious if a request is something a lot of people want but only one person took the time to write up, or if it's a very niche thing t

It's often not immediately obvious if a request is something a lot of people want but only one person took the time to write up, or if it's a very niche thing that only that person cares about. People who +1 an issue are not a great data set, but it's a lot better than nothing and it's basically zero effort to check. If I'm looking for something to work on and there's two issues that look like they'll take similar amounts of time, both seem like good ideas to implement, and I'm not sure which is more valuable, the number of +1s is a pretty decent tiebreaker.