This is a plea to GitHub product management and developers to consider adding a voting/starring functionality to GitHub issues.

The absence of this crucial feature results in regular comment spam and has become a regular source of frustration for open source contributors and project admins. Every other major bug tracking and issue management system has voting functionality that helps users express their preferences and project admins manage development priorities -- in a simple, transparent and non-intrusive way.

Please implement it and make life of open source contributors a little bit better.