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I don't get why people don't just subscribe to the issue instead of +1. Google's issue trackers have the same issue: they support starring but people insist on

by fmorel 11y ago

I don't get why people don't just subscribe to the issue instead of +1. Google's issue trackers have the same issue: they support starring but people insist on doing "me too" posts.

masklinn 11y ago
> I don't get why people don't just subscribe to the issue instead of +1 Because subscribing does not show interest/support: the repository owner does not see how many people have subscribed to the issue. Furthermore, supporting the resolution of an issue does not mean you want to be spammed with updates to said issue. > Google's issue trackers have the same issue: they support starring but people insist on doing "me too" posts. Google's issue tracker has the same issue to a lower extent: while everybody can see the number of stars on an issue (which is good), starring an issue requires following it and being spammed by it (which is bad). Then again, people are by and large idiots, even on e.g. youtrack (which has non-subscripting voting) +1 comments abound: http://blog.jetbrains.com/youtrack/2013/01/making-1-mean-what-it-really-means/ http://blog.jetbrains.com/youtrack/2013/01/making-1-mean-wha... Only way I see to mitigate that is assuming the tracker has orthogonal subscription and voting ruthless moderation and removal of worthless "+1" comments.
- hk__2 11y ago
  > Furthermore, supporting the resolution of an issue does not mean you want to be spammed with updates to said issue. Commenting on the issue automatically subscribes you to it. You have to manually unsubscribe if you don’t want to be spammed.
  - masklinn 11y ago
    Of course, but the point is you can have commented ("voted") and not subscribed (/unsubscribed) from the issue. Although commenting subcribes by default (which does make sense) they are orthogonal.
dansman 11y ago
Subscribing to this issues will spam your inbox. 42 updates just in the last 2h.

by fmorel 11y ago

I don't get why people don't just subscribe to the issue instead of +1. Google's issue trackers have the same issue: they support starring but people insist on doing "me too" posts.

masklinn 11y ago

> I don't get why people don't just subscribe to the issue instead of +1 Because subscribing does not show interest/support: the repository owner does not see how many people have subscribed to the issue. Furthermore, supporting the resolution of an issue does not mean you want to be spammed with updates to said issue. > Google's issue trackers have the same issue: they support starring but people insist on doing "me too" posts. Google's issue tracker has the same issue to a lower extent: while everybody can see the number of stars on an issue (which is good), starring an issue requires following it and being spammed by it (which is bad). Then again, people are by and large idiots, even on e.g. youtrack (which has non-subscripting voting) +1 comments abound: http://blog.jetbrains.com/youtrack/2013/01/making-1-mean-what-it-really-means/ http://blog.jetbrains.com/youtrack/2013/01/making-1-mean-wha... Only way I see to mitigate that is assuming the tracker has orthogonal subscription and voting ruthless moderation and removal of worthless "+1" comments.

hk__2 11y ago
> Furthermore, supporting the resolution of an issue does not mean you want to be spammed with updates to said issue. Commenting on the issue automatically subscribes you to it. You have to manually unsubscribe if you don’t want to be spammed.
- masklinn 11y ago
  Of course, but the point is you can have commented ("voted") and not subscribed (/unsubscribed) from the issue. Although commenting subcribes by default (which does make sense) they are orthogonal.

dansman 11y ago

Subscribing to this issues will spam your inbox. 42 updates just in the last 2h.