Crikey, balance, spam, dont contribute, very little contribution, +1 pile on (though we dont see many -1 pile ons).....
we are society/community that works because we collaborate we assume good faith int he actions of others, we know that while we speak(email) in english many of us have different levels of understanding, hey even those fluent in english dont necessarily understand what each other is saying. Fae is right there could be a better ways to communicate we should explore how to achieve that and we should keep going back to that very question from time to time improve how we do things. the most important point that is; Its just good manners to welcome people, and to say thank you. Consider the advice to send a message off list, would you really like to be on the receiving end of a 100 thank you emails, or 100 welcome emails all saying similar but possibly different things wow talk of creating spam, then that person would feel obliged to answer every one of them individually. The beauty of the list is we all see and acknowledge an appreciation of what someone has achieved or to welcome them to the group and they only have to respond once or twice to the group. When you distill it down all sharing an equal burden of the odd extra email, is still a better way to support the communities growth than making one individual accept a heavy burden so we dont have to see that practice people exercising courtesy and good manners publicly On 14 January 2016 at 15:13, Lodewijk <[email protected]> wrote: > I do agree in general that generic '+1' emails contribute very little. If > you really want to thank someone, or welcome them, it probably makes a > better impression if you write a little more than that. Say a few lines to > introduce the list, give them a tip or offer them to show them around. > > Personally, I prefer to send those mails offlist by the way - but I can > feel with people that with all the dramaspam (how important and justified > it sometimes may be/feel) you kinda feel a need to balance that out ;) > > Lodewijk > > On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 3:17 AM, Gergo Tisza <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 9:17 AM, Chris Keating < > [email protected] > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > To me, "Hello" and "Thank you" are quite under-used words on this list > > (in > > > the movement generally but particularly here) so I would prefer we > didn't > > > rule these emails out. > > > > > > After all, if we remove pile-on positive threads that contain little > > > information then pile-on negative threads with equally little > information > > > will probably still remain. > > > > +1 > > I would much rather filter outrage spam :-) There is more of it, and > unlike > > thanks, it tends to have a demoralizing effect. > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > New messages to: [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > -- GN. President Wikimedia Australia WMAU: http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/User:Gnangarra Photo Gallery: http://gnangarra.redbubble.com _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
