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 gtisza@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 9:17 AM, Chris Keating <chriskeatingwiki@gmail.com
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: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe