On: Dear GitHub

[russjr08]

Yep. The problem is that some users are not aware of the conventions, and often you see on the Android Google Code repo "+1" or something along the lines of "Google plz fix this".

This becomes heavily apparent when someone posts an Android issue directly onto the Android subreddit. I suspect the same could happen with GitHub issues. When you see others posting "+1", then others follow the same practice.

[caf → russjr08]

It seems to me that it would be a good idea to have a special-case that turns a comment where the only content is "+1" into a star request instead.

[bsimpson → caf]

I believe GitHub translates :+1: into a thumbs-up icon, so you'd probably want to limit your filter so it only applies to non-contributors.

But still, yeah, it would be fairly trivial to require posts to be more than +1, or to display a warning when anyone starts a post with :+1: