[Wikimedia-l] Thanking anonymous users

[Steven Walling]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Risker <risker.wp at gmail.com> 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.