[Wikimedia-l] Thanking anonymous users

[Steven Walling]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Risker <risker.wp at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

I don't view Talk page messages and thanks notifications as competing or
detracting from each other, and I think pretty much everyone works on
Thanks would agree. They are additive. It's helpful to have different
levels and types of ways to engage with each other on the wiki.