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Award emojis
Note: This feature was introduced in GitLab 8.2.
When you're collaborating online, you get fewer opportunities for high-fives and thumbs-ups. In order to make virtual celebrations easier, you can now vote on issues and merge requests using emoji!
This makes it much easier to give and receive feedback, without a long comment thread. Any comment that contains only the thumbs up or down emojis is converted to a vote and depicted in the emoji area.
You can then use that functionality to sort issues and merge requests based on popularity.
Sort issues and merge requests on vote count
Note: This feature was introduced in GitLab 8.5.
You can quickly sort the issues or merge requests by the number of votes they have received. The sort option can be found in the right dropdown menu.
Sort by most popular issues/merge requests.
Sort by least popular issues/merge requests.
The number of upvotes and downvotes is not summed up. That means that an issue with 18 upvotes and 5 downvotes is considered more popular than an issue with 17 upvotes and no downvotes.