As a mostly silent reader of this list, I'd like to spammingly +1 this message. There's hardly anything more superfluous than these "Welcome from Wikimedia Schleswig-Holstein as well!!!!" mails. Am 13.01.2016 12:12 schrieb "Fæ" <fae...@gmail.com>:
> TL;DR > Can anyone suggest of a better way of publicly logging thanks, hellos > & goodbyes for our public email lists? > > BACKGROUND > Wikimedia lists are probably unique in the number of emails over a > year which 'thankspam'. For example there is a pattern set that an > awful lot of chapter representatives send public welcomes and goodbyes > without conveying any new information. Sometimes when my email > notifier shows about ten of these on the same day, I've made the > effort to block that thread, I don't know of a way of specifically > muting the notifications for these types of emails on my mobile phone. > > Though everyone could chose to send these privately rather than making > a public statement, I understand the motivation for "us too"s to be > noticed by others who are not the intended 'thanked'. On email lists > something like ensuring thank email subject lines have a formulaic > part of the title would help, so that readers can choose to mute them; > equivalent to marking "minor" or "bot" edits on our projects so they > don't get flagged in recent changes. > > This thought stirred by Ad's email, but not against the sentiment he > was aiming for. > > PS For those that recall my meta thanks reports, I hope to get this > online again soon once a related phabricator task is resolved. > > Fae > > On 13 January 2016 at 09:21, Ad Huikeshoven <a...@wikimedia.nl> wrote: > ... > > I failed to welcome incoming directors to the board of the Wikimedia > > Foundation and I failed to thank outgoing directors of the same board for > > the time and effort they have spent. > > > > - that you are sorry about the harm/damage/waste/confusion your > mistake > > caused (being specific would demonstrate understanding); > > > > I'm sorry for this unpolite and rude behavior. > ... > -- > fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
