Comment Thumbs Up (Score 1) 453
How many people here would take one look at that UI and assume that the + meant 'mod this up'?
But seriously, why a plus sign inside a square? Why not an oblong marked ALARM?
The "+" has an association with numbers and your mod points affect a post's score. A thumbs up/down may have conveyed this more clearly , but then you run into issues with cultural interruptions of hand gestures(go ahead, thumbs up a middle eastern).