@LightnessRacesInOrbit, no offence but I must respectfully disagree with you. You made some very good points in your argument above, particularly about rules vs. conventions, and the other person definitely took it too far by constantly reverting your edits (I would never do that), but I've always hated this aspect of SO, and here's why:

1. "Thank you" is a basic human courtesy. It separates us from animals and mindless robots that only care about having "a [perfectly-clean] knowledge resource". Once again, no offence intended to you or anyone else with your viewpoint.
2. It takes me a good hour or so to formulate what I hope to be a clear, concise question that will help others in the future as well as myself. I don't have the time to contribute any more than that (i.e. answering or editing), so putting a bit more effort into my questions is how I try to make up for that. As such, I feel as though anyone who does the same by answering my question well, deserves MTIA.
3. It's not even that noisy...it's nine extra characters for Pete's sake! Or eight in my case, since I usually say "MTIA :-)".

I doubt I'm the only person who feels this way among the mods (obviously I'm not one of you but I mean that a few of you probably share my viewpoint...or at least I hope so).

Update 17 hours later: I just watched Jeff's Opening Keynote at Iterate 2018 and I finally get it. I wish it weren't the case so I could ramble on about how much this incredible man has changed my life for the better, but that would obviously be wrong for this site. I apologise, but it's the last time I'll say that here. Or "the words that shall never be spoken (for all the right reasons)".

@LightnessRacesInOrbit, no offence, but I must respectfully disagree with you. You made some very good points in your argument, particularly about rules vs. conventions, and the other person definitely took it too far by constantly reverting your edits (I would never do that), but I've always hated this aspect of Stack Overflow, and here's why:

1. "Thank you" is a basic human courtesy. It separates us from animals and mindless robots that only care about having "a [perfectly-clean] knowledge resource". Once again, no offence intended to you or anyone else with your viewpoint.
2. It takes me a good hour or so to formulate what I hope to be a clear, concise question that will help others in the future as well as myself. I don't have the time to contribute any more than that (i.e. answering or editing), so putting a bit more effort into my questions is how I try to make up for that. As such, I feel as though anyone who does the same by answering my question well, deserves MTIA.
3. It's not even that noisy...it's nine extra characters for Pete's sake! Or eight in my case, since I usually say "MTIA :-)".

I doubt I'm the only person who feels this way among the moderators (obviously I'm not one of you, but I mean that a few of you probably share my viewpoint...or at least I hope so).

Update 17 hours later: I just watched Jeff's Opening Keynote at Iterate 2018 and I finally get it. I wish it weren't the case so I could ramble on about how much this incredible man has changed my life for the better, but that would obviously be wrong for this site. I apologise, but it's the last time I'll say that here. Or "the words that shall never be spoken (for all the right reasons)".

@LightnessRacesInOrbit, no offence but I must respectfully disagree with you. You made some very good points in your argument above, particularly about rules vs. conventions, and the other person definitely took it too far by constantly reverting your edits (I would never do that), but I've always hated this aspect of SO, and here's why:

1. "Thank you" is a basic human courtesy. It separates us from animals and mindless robots that only care about having "a [perfectly-clean] knowledge resource". Once again, no offence intended to you or anyone else with your viewpoint.
2. It takes me a good hour or so to formulate what I hope to be a clear, concise question that will help others in the future as well as myself. I don't have the time to contribute any more than that (i.e. answering or editing), so putting a bit more effort into my questions is how I try to make up for that. As such, I feel as though anyone who does the same by answering my question well, deserves MTIA.
3. It's not even that noisy...it's nine extra characters for Pete's sake! Or eight in my case, since I usually say "MTIA :-)".

I doubt I'm the only person who feels this way among the mods (obviously I'm not one of you but I mean that a few of you probably share my viewpoint...or at least I hope so).

@LightnessRacesInOrbit, no offence but I must respectfully disagree with you. You made some very good points in your argument above, particularly about rules vs. conventions, and the other person definitely took it too far by constantly reverting your edits (I would never do that), but I've always hated this aspect of SO, and here's why:

1. "Thank you" is a basic human courtesy. It separates us from animals and mindless robots that only care about having "a [perfectly-clean] knowledge resource". Once again, no offence intended to you or anyone else with your viewpoint.
2. It takes me a good hour or so to formulate what I hope to be a clear, concise question that will help others in the future as well as myself. I don't have the time to contribute any more than that (i.e. answering or editing), so putting a bit more effort into my questions is how I try to make up for that. As such, I feel as though anyone who does the same by answering my question well, deserves MTIA.
3. It's not even that noisy...it's nine extra characters for Pete's sake! Or eight in my case, since I usually say "MTIA :-)".

I doubt I'm the only person who feels this way among the mods (obviously I'm not one of you but I mean that a few of you probably share my viewpoint...or at least I hope so).

Update 17 hours later: I just watched Jeff's Opening Keynote at Iterate 2018 and I finally get it. I wish it weren't the case so I could ramble on about how much this incredible man has changed my life for the better, but that would obviously be wrong for this site. I apologise, but it's the last time I'll say that here. Or "the words that shall never be spoken (for all the right reasons)".