https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49087
--- Comment #23 from Steven Walling <[email protected]> --- The logs that were built in to Thanks were for accountability. But they were built in to prevent excessive, spam-like blasts of indiscriminate thanks, not control for quality of thanking in relation to the edit. Nemo: Jon's comment from IRC was a sarcastic joke in and of itself. The mobile team pulled a prank on its technical lead creating a bunch of fake to-do items of "high priority" one of which was to investigate "thanks trolling". The thank you message is the same whether you really mean it or not. It is not possible to send a malicious or sarcastic thank you, per se, only one that is confusing (such as if you also leave the person a warning message). Thanks on Wikipedia are just that: a message of gratitude from one user to the other. Who is thanking whom is not really anybody else's business. It's not a public display of gratitude or appreciation for a given edit. Not mentioning which edit was associated with the thank you is very much intentional, to avoid implying that particular edits are better than others because they received thanks. Recently, we removed showing thank yous in Special:Logs by default (bug 52118) based on community request: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Notifications/Thanks&oldid=571964775#Must_we_list_every_Thank_under_.22View_logs.22.3F There is little evidence that Thanks are something used abusively at all, and that they need monitoring in the same way edits or uploads do. Transparency is one of our values yes, but that doesn't mean we completely avoid private messages between users (Cf. Special:EmailUser). -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
