On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Risker <risker...@gmail.com> wrote: > I dunno, guys. I certainly would take a talk page message over a > mechanical "thank" any day of the week. More particularly, I notice a > significant trend in using "thank" notifications to express agreement with > people without having to actually say "yeah, I agree" somewhere. > > That the loss of human contact, replacing it with another technological > whizbang, is considered a net positive...well, I guess that's what can be > expected from Wikimedia. >
I don't view Talk page messages and thanks notifications as competing or detracting from each other, and I think pretty much everyone works on Thanks would agree. They are additive. It's helpful to have different levels and types of ways to engage with each other on the wiki. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
