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
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
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.