On 9/27/07, Brent Norris <brent(a)brentnorris.net> wrote:
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 10:26 -0400, David Cantrell wrote:
>> Where did the +1 and -1 trend come from because it's really freaking
annoying.
>
> The earliest I've heard of it happening is on various Apache mailing
> lists, to indicate acceptance or rejection of a change.
>
>
I always thought it was a take off of the Slashdot mod system, but I
guess that could have come from anywhere.
AFAIK it's from the python world. They use {+1, +0, -0, -1} to
describe good feelings, bad feelings or just plain apatheticness.
-Yaakov