> The way users can vote on issues with "thumbs up", "heart", "rocket", and "fanfare" emojis (instead of simply "up" and "down") is another Those emoji votes r

> The way users can vote on issues with "thumbs up", "heart", "rocket", and "fanfare" emojis (instead of simply "up" and "down") is another Those emoji votes reduced a significant amount of the "+1" and similar low content comments which could take up significant space on a regular repo. We could look at other issue tracking systems such as Redmine. Pulling up a feature that's in the next release https://www.redmine.org/issues/3088 https://www.redmine.org/issues/3088 > +1 It would be very good to get this, as we have to hide our estimations from some roles :( > +1 on this one! > +1 > +1 It would be great to have estimated times integrated in the allover times permissions system. If you look at the comments on GitHub issues from before the expansion of emoji votes to what they are, there are fewer "fluff" comments. The reasoning for this is in https://github.blog/2016-03-10-add-reactions-to-pull-requests-issues-and-comments/ https://github.blog/2016-03-10-add-reactions-to-pull-request... > While people have been able to include emoji in responses for a long time, using them as reactions resulted in a lot of noise. In many cases, especially on popular projects, the result is a long thread full of emoji and not much content, which makes it difficult to have a discussion. With reactions, you can now reduce the noise in these threads.