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Comment by decisiveness

10 years ago

Stack Overflow tried preventing +1/-1 comments[1], and the community came to the consensus[2][3] that those comments can be useful.

[1]https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/277314

[2]http://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/277319

[3]http://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/283935

From skimming, they found "+/-1, because REASON" to be valuable, not "+/-1". Indeed, in the open letter, they mention these are valuable, but the current implementation is a pain.