On 14.01.2014 15:53, David Gerard wrote:
On 14 January 2014 14:42, Yaroslav M. Blanter <pute...@mccme.ru>
wrote:
What does indeed make a difference and creates a sense of human
interaction
is custom messaging over templated messaging.
It's the human interaction bit. I was *delighted* when I got a "thank
you" for an edit, and really wanted to be able to do the same thing
for anonymous users - it means "someone has noticed your good edit*,
immediate positive feedback. That's why I think we really need to make
the "thank you" mechanism work for anons, somehow.
- d.
I am certainly not against the thank you mechanism for IP editors (I
still do not quite understand whether it is feasible, but this is a
different issue). I also use the thank you mechanism myself, mostly in
the cases someone corrected my typo or introduced some minor corrections
- I just find it easier, because otherwise I would probably not go to
their talk page which may be in watchlists of hundreds of users. For
significant improvements I leave a custom message at the talk page. If
there is a discussion I certainly believe that one should go and
participate rather than thank for the specific messages - first, in this
case thenking is more like likes in social media, second, it is not even
visible to others. I mean, echo is a cool and useful thing, and I am
happy to have it, but it should not replace the watchlist.
Cheers
Yaroslav
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