For those not familiar with the Google Issue Tracker, it allows you to favorite an issue so you both follow its progress and voice your opinion that it should get fixed.
You do this by clicking the little outline of a star next to the issue number. Its next to the issue number, not the comment box. When people want to voice their support for a ticket, what do they do? They head straight for the comment box and write "+1" or "Yes, please fix this!" The result is that everyone who dutifully starred the ticket gets spammed. To cap it all off you get about a 1 in 5 ratio of people replying with "Don't +1, CLICK THE GOD DAMNED STAR!" On popular issues the ratio of stars to comments is about 3 to 1. On any other system such a tiny interface gafe wouldn't even be noticable. When there's 1600 people following an issue it becomes a problem. http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=34 -- Just call me 'Moron Sugar'. http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp05182002.shtml
