I dunno, guys. I certainly would take a talk page message over a mechanical "thank" any day of the week. More particularly, I notice a significant trend in using "thank" notifications to express agreement with people without having to actually say "yeah, I agree" somewhere.
That the loss of human contact, replacing it with another technological whizbang, is considered a net positive...well, I guess that's what can be expected from Wikimedia. Risker On 13 January 2014 17:36, Oliver Keyes <[email protected]> wrote: > Indeed. I see a user's awesome edit, via a diff. I hit "thank". I hit > "okay". > > I see a user's awesome edit, via a diff. I hit the "talk" link, I hit the > "new section" button, I fill in my message, I save my message. > > Ultimately, though, this compares apples to oranges; nobody is > "technologizing" this kind of user interaction because nobody is removing > the ability to leave thankful talk page messages - indeed, I think they > still serve a very useful purpose. I tend to thank people when they've made > an edit I appreciate; I head over to their talkpage and give barnstars when > this is indicative of wider good work on their part, or it's a /really/ > great edit. All we've done is added some granularity to the system, > reducing the barrier for small amounts of thanks. > > > On 13 January 2014 14:24, Steven Walling <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Risker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I'm not entirely certain it's a good idea to "technologize" such very > > basic > > > user interactions. It takes as much work to "thank" someone using > > > notifications as it does to leave them a talk page message. > > > > > > > That's empirically not true. > > > > If I am on a page history or list of user contributions, it's takes just > > two clicks and you don't leave the page. To leave someone a Talk page > > message takes several new page loads and steps. > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > > > -- > Oliver Keyes > Product Analyst > Wikimedia Foundation > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
