On 14.01.2014 15:53, David Gerard wrote:
On 14 January 2014 14:42, Yaroslav M. Blanter putevod@mccme.ru wrote:
What does indeed make a difference and creates a sense of human interaction is custom messaging over templated messaging.
It's the human interaction bit. I was *delighted* when I got a "thank you" for an edit, and really wanted to be able to do the same thing for anonymous users - it means "someone has noticed your good edit*, immediate positive feedback. That's why I think we really need to make the "thank you" mechanism work for anons, somehow.
- d.
I am certainly not against the thank you mechanism for IP editors (I still do not quite understand whether it is feasible, but this is a different issue). I also use the thank you mechanism myself, mostly in the cases someone corrected my typo or introduced some minor corrections - I just find it easier, because otherwise I would probably not go to their talk page which may be in watchlists of hundreds of users. For significant improvements I leave a custom message at the talk page. If there is a discussion I certainly believe that one should go and participate rather than thank for the specific messages - first, in this case thenking is more like likes in social media, second, it is not even visible to others. I mean, echo is a cool and useful thing, and I am happy to have it, but it should not replace the watchlist.
Cheers Yaroslav