Recently, let's say in the past year, I saw a growing number of email messages on the KDE lists with the following content only:
+1
This is getting annoying for me. I get a nice notification from KMail about the messages arrived, and if I saw that it came to some folder that I'm interested in, I look at the message. And many times it contains nothing, but a +1. I can understand the urge to express support for an idea, a person, but please, think about it twice before doing so. These days it is not about abusing my / the worlds bandwidth, as we use more to share "stuff", it is about abusing the time of the readers.
Thanks for reading.
PS: Although I never lived in the US and missed the early times of internet chats, I still remember the AOL! jargon.
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me too
me too
plus one
+1. Sort of an overflow from IRC IIAC...
Wouldn't a lengthier reply
Wouldn't a lengthier reply expressing exactly the same as "+1" abuse your time even more?
There are circumstances where people are required to give their thumbs up/down for something to move forward, and that's a concise way to do it.
Longer replies
Yes, if it doesn't add value.
Do you always say "me too" in a group when somebody says something you agree with? What would happen if just half of subscribers to a mailing list would say +1 for every mail they agree with?
This is nothing more, but common sense. If I don't add value to a post, I rather shut up, instead of writing a single +1. The worse is when the +1 in somewhere "hidden" in the mail, between the previous replies.
PS: Of course there are certain cases when just expressing your agreement makes sense, but in most cases I read it did not.
+1
+1, Would read again.