On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 15:45:21 +0200 Sven Bartscher <sven.bartscher@weltraumschlangen.de> wrote: > Greetings everyone, > > I recently started contributing to debian. > Before that, most of my writing with people I don't know personally > through the internet was on Stack Exchange. > On Stack Exchange, messages that only consist of thanking people or > agreement are not considered helpful. High volume mailing lists are often the same. If you're adding "noise", it isn't going to be seen as helpful. +1 and "thanks" are generally regarded as "noise" if there is no other content. (Worse is when those are applied at the end of a very long email without snipping other content.) > This in mind I'm very unsure if I should write messages like that to > someone or if I should avoid them (to not annoy anyone with them), on > Debian mailing lists or bug reports. Bug reports differ somewhat. Reports that a patch or a contribution or a workaround has actually helped someone *are* helpful. Just be certain that you quote enough of the original content that people know what you are talking about when all they see is the email notification of your contribution. > What is your experience with that? > How do you feel if you read such messages? > Maybe more important: How do you feel if you don't get such messages? reportbug has a seldom used kudos feature but a personal thanks is often better received than an automated one. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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