I agree that thankspam is somewhat irritating, but it is also a good way to make people feel welcome and appreciated. An alternative is to consider moving wikimedia-l to a tool like discourse.org that has (1) built-in likes, which communicate welcome and appreciation without creating noise and (2) ability for all users to mute/ignore specific threads. (Also better moderation tools, and likely somewhat more welcoming to people who don't use email much, or feel overwhelmed by it - both of whom are large groups!)
Obviously that would be somewhat of a big change, but it's something we can look into (low priority! no promises!) if people have interest. Luis On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 6:17 PM, Gergo Tisza <gti...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 9:17 AM, Chris Keating <chriskeatingw...@gmail.com > > > wrote: > > > > To me, "Hello" and "Thank you" are quite under-used words on this list > (in > > the movement generally but particularly here) so I would prefer we didn't > > rule these emails out. > > > > After all, if we remove pile-on positive threads that contain little > > information then pile-on negative threads with equally little information > > will probably still remain. > > +1 > I would much rather filter outrage spam :-) There is more of it, and unlike > thanks, it tends to have a demoralizing effect. > _______________________________________________ > 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> > -- Luis Villa Sr. Director of Community Engagement Wikimedia Foundation *Working towards a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.* _______________________________________________ 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>
