As a maintainer, the +1s get very annoying and can actually get in the way of useful work being done. At best it makes the comment thread hard to follow. At wo

As a maintainer, the +1s get very annoying and can actually get in the way of useful work being done. At best it makes the comment thread hard to follow. At worst, it causes some people to start filtering their bugmail to /dev/null. This is why some issue trackers have a dedicated voting system. Even then, people will still ignore it and reply with "+1" or "me too". sigh