[Wikimedia-l] Thanking anonymous users

[Yaroslav M. Blanter]

On 14.01.2014 15:53, David Gerard wrote:
> On 14 January 2014 14:42, Yaroslav M. Blanter <putevod at 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