Timeline for Are thanks-only comments appropriate at this SE site?
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| May 29, 2017 at 9:40 | answer | added | user108682 | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 22, 2017 at 14:28 | comment | added | Chris H | The nice thing about a "thanks" as opposed to an unvote is that the latter are anonymous. So IMO "thanks" goes a little further. That said I wouldn't use a bare "thanks" very often if at all; a "thanks, by the way this also fixed..." or "thanks, it's even better if you..." is much more useful. I'll often add a note of thanks and/or "(+1)" to a comment that disagrees with a minor point in an answer, to make my overall support clearer | |
| May 19, 2017 at 16:07 | comment | added | Steven B. Segletes | In reply to such thanks, I will sometimes add a "you are welcome" comment, but only if I also have something else to add in the comment to improve the quality or provide clarification to what is under discussion. Or to let them know that the biggest "thanks" is an upvote. | |
| May 17, 2017 at 17:29 | vote | accept | Wolf | ||
| May 17, 2017 at 17:19 | comment | added | percusse | it's a lack of foresight. They thought only programmers will hate each other on SO hence the etiquette but then other sites received normal people's attention hence the weird stuff here and there impying social kindness is evil :) And thank you for asking :P | |
| May 17, 2017 at 12:57 | answer | added | Joseph WrightMod | timeline score: 20 | |
| May 17, 2017 at 11:40 | comment | added | Wolf | @clemens thanks for showing me similar questions, I searched before, but I didn't find them. To be a little bit more constructive: Wouldn't it be better to add a constructive remark to the example comment in the tour? (Letting the thanks there.) | |
| May 17, 2017 at 11:37 | comment | added | cgnieder | tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1724 tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1413 | |
| May 17, 2017 at 11:36 | comment | added | cgnieder | I never edit questions to remove a Thank You. I agree that it adds friendliness and nobody can tell me that it does any harm. IMHO: leave as much thank you comment as you want to… | |
| May 17, 2017 at 11:30 | history | asked | Wolf | CC BY-SA 3.0 |