On 9/21/07, David Cantrell <dcantrell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On another note, could we please stop the +1 and -1 garbage replies to people? Just say you agree or disagree. Where did the +1 and -1 trend come from because it's really freaking annoying. > Amateur historian hat on This usage of +1/-1 has been in various places, but seems to have become mainstream sometime in the late 1990's when Slashdot implemented its first karma system. People would ask other people who had karma to +1/-1 an article/comment/etc because they felt it was important etc. It then started being used on other lists as a common meme as anyone who was anyone was reading Slashdot (even if not admitting it). Getting it to stop will be at this point like getting the press not to call criminal software users 'hackers'. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
