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(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 9:17 AM, Chris Keating
<chriskeatingwiki(a)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.
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