I edit a lot of posts every day. I often run across posts with 'Hi' and 'Thanks' on the top and the bottom of the post respectively. I also run across things like:
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Should these items be removed during the editing of the post by an editor?
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Sign up to join this communityI edit a lot of posts every day. I often run across posts with 'Hi' and 'Thanks' on the top and the bottom of the post respectively. I also run across things like:
--User
Should these items be removed during the editing of the post by an editor?
A solution to this problem could be to add a method like code blocks or code span
with backticks, in order to add additional greetings. Thus the greetings could be turned off by a simple switch for users who prefer plain raw questions and left in tact for the users who prefer a more human response.
When asking a query I often write/want to write "thanks for reading". I honestly appreciate and am grateful for someone taking the time to read my query. If they can go on to answer in addition, I'll thank them for that also.
I think it's a disgrace that my warmth and appreciation is being removed and thus my presentation of myself is being violated.
I feel enough like a robot. Please let us feel like human with a little "hi" or "thanks". There is nothing wrong with this I think... No, don't remove; especially askers may use "hi" or "thanks".
Random salutations help add uniqueness and personality to questions. Words such as thank you improve the life of the receivers. (as long as they are located in a common location such as the bottom of a question and we can assume the entire containing sentence can be ignored as it's irrelevant to the post)
I don't think "thank you" or other appreciations should ever be removed. These keep stackexchange sites from being just rock and mortar plain Q/A sites, and they let human love flow through and around. Everyone needs love.
thank you
stuck at the end of a question before people even answer, is to: spend extra time making your question concise and clear, read all answers carefully, vote for the good ones, award the best answer with an extra 15 points, make comments on any new things you've realized that could help future readers, let an answerer know if something's wrong in their answer, etc.thank you
in a comment under an answer is preferable to a undirected thank you in a question that hundreds of thousands of people will read. Suppose that the thank you message in a question distracts each reader for an average of 0.5 seconds and suppose the answer has 100,000 views. 100,000 * 0.5s = 14 hours. So 14 hours have been spent on people reading a thank you message for something they didn't do.thank you
tagline. Stack Exchange is a site for disseminating information. Notice that articles in academic journals don't end withThank you
.