On 9/26/07, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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'. +1 -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
