I agree that thankspam is somewhat irritating, but it is also a good way to make people feel welcome and appreciated. An alternative is to consider moving wikimedia-l to a tool like discourse.org that has (1) built-in likes, which communicate welcome and appreciation without creating noise and (2) ability for all users to mute/ignore specific threads. (Also better moderation tools, and likely somewhat more welcoming to people who don't use email much, or feel overwhelmed by it - both of whom are large groups!)
Obviously that would be somewhat of a big change, but it's something we can look into (low priority! no promises!) if people have interest.
Luis
On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 6:17 PM, 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