Re: "thanks" messages on mailing lists/bug reports
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 03:41:50PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
> 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.)
+1
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"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people
who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the
oppressing." --- Malcolm X
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