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Re: Just Wanted to Say Thanks

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Post by m_sahaf »

compumike wrote: post #2

I was surprised to find that someone left a brief "thank you" issue on one of my open source projects (a Kubernetes hairpin proxy to fix issues with cert-manager and LoadBalancers) and it feels great to know that the right people are finding it and resolving the same problem that led me to build it. I humbly hope that sharing this might inspire more humanity and gratitude in the open source community.

Your Circuit Lab project was great and really helpful when I studied circuit analysis. That's the project I've known you for. Thank you for that!

Re: Just Wanted to Say Thanks

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Post by [deleted] »

nicbou wrote: post #51

I've been on the receiving end of such gratitude, and it always brightens my day. It's easy to think your hard work isn't noticed, until you realize how seldom you acknowledge other people's work. Unfortunately, explicit gratitude is very rare. Donations are even rarer. The "ask a question" and "support this site" buttons on my website are next to each other. I get 15 questions for every donation. About 30€ per 100 0…

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Re: Just Wanted to Say Thanks

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Post by nicbou »

corobo wrote: post #110
nicbou wrote: post #51

I've been on the receiving end of such gratitude, and it always brightens my day. It's easy to think your hard work isn't noticed, until you realize how seldom you acknowledge other people's work. Unfortunately, explicit gratitude is very rare. Donations are even rarer. The "ask a question" and "support this site" buttons on my website are next to each other. I get 15 questions for every donation. About 30€ per 100 0…

Just out of interest have you ever tried rewording the support button? When I see 'support' on a website I think tech support not money support and blank it if I'm not looking for support. Might be just me, course!

Yes. All variants are similarly ineffective

Re: Just Wanted to Say Thanks

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Post by nmlpx »

6gvONxR4sf7o wrote: post #90

I’ve learned that when I have a positive thought about someone, it’s generally worth communicating it. If I think a coworker saved me on some project, I tell them. If my partner is making me feel warm and fuzzy, I tell her. If someone impresses me, I say so. I don’t think people express these things nearly as often as they feel them, and I expect that many of the positive things that do end up communicated have anoth…

In theory that is great. I stopped praising colleagues after I found out that several people behaved as if they owned me afterwards.

Also, I had a manager who would move everyone I praised off the team. He was paranoid about cliques.

Re: Just Wanted to Say Thanks

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Post by r00fus »

rualca wrote: post #100
6gvONxR4sf7o wrote: post #90

I’ve learned that when I have a positive thought about someone, it’s generally worth communicating it. If I think a coworker saved me on some project, I tell them. If my partner is making me feel warm and fuzzy, I tell her. If someone impresses me, I say so. I don’t think people express these things nearly as often as they feel them, and I expect that many of the positive things that do end up communicated have anoth…

> I don’t think people express these things nearly as often as they feel them, and I expect that many of the positive things that do end up communicated have another motive behind them. I have the displeasure of working with a team member who does the exact opposite: at every chance he gets, he expressed his displeasure regarding other team members to management. Once I confronted him about that behavior and he state…

It’s possible this individual has a personal experience or upbringing where reciprocal behaviors were not respected. It’s possible he’s correct in certain workplaces.

I’d hate to work with such an individual; I’d avoid them like the plague.

To me “good culture” is the de-emphasis of these kinds of mindsets (and emphasis of the opposite). To the point where it’s justification for hire/fire.

Re: Just Wanted to Say Thanks

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Post by c_s_guy »

yiyus wrote: post #129
kostarelo wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On every retrospective session we do, every other week, there is an additional column called “stars” or “heros” and we add a note each there giving praises to someone else for something they did those two weeks. We then read them all out followed by a round of applause for each one of them. It brings great positivity to the team.

> We then read them all out followed by a round of applause for each one of them That may be good for team building and make some people feel better but, personally, I would find that situation very uncomfortable.

I imagine it might also cause adverse effects if someone happens to be missed.

Re: Just Wanted to Say Thanks

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Post by gist »

The magic of a story on HN at the top and not having a clue why. Would be a nice feature to HN to a pinned summary field at the top (and no don't call it 'tl;dr' either that is another 'what does that mean' to many people').

Not to mention that to an outsider the actual post in itself does not appear to be anything remarkable in any way. Who is vito botta, who is compumike? Why are they so special? Are they special?

To much info to consume in this day an age...

Re: Just Wanted to Say Thanks

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Post by adamwathan »

This thread motivated me to add a new "kind words" category to the Tailwind CSS discussions area on GitHub — maybe other projects can do the same:

https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/discussions/cate...

Managing OSS stuff really is brutal, and the amount of negative stuff you hear is hugely disproportionate to the amount of positive stuff. Anything to encourage the happy users to speak up once in a while can go a long way toward preventing OSS maintainers from burning out.

Re: Just Wanted to Say Thanks

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Post by the_arun »

corobo wrote: post #117
the_arun wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wouldn’t “star” express gratitude?

Saying "thank you" expresses an infinite amount more gratitude than someone taking half a second to click a button. Please don't boil positivity down into just another dopamine fix. It's so fucking fake. Star too, donate too, whatever you'd like to do normally too but nothing beats actually using your words

If you put it that way, I think GitHub could enable a platform feature to collect finance contributions from fans/users. Heck, even licensing costs. That makes open source programmers earn some money as well - of course along with a text field to say “thanks”.

Re: Just Wanted to Say Thanks

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Post by ImaCake »

Here is another example of some gratitude supplied to someone who wrote a useful python library for a very painful exercise in bioinformatics [0]. Scroll to the comments to see the thankyou notes left by grateful scientists. I have personally used this because I found the other tools available to be a bit fickle about the files they needed while this simple python script was a breeze to use for me (since I know python already).

Github page is here [1] for those who need to remap an arbitrary list of human genome coordinates and don't want to bother with the UCSC tool.

0. http://fouryears.eu/2013/02/25/the-curse-of-genomic-coordina... 1. https://github.com/konstantint/pyliftover

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