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Just Wanted to Say Thanks

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Re: Just Wanted to Say Thanks

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Post by eyelidlessness »

corobo wrote: post #175
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.

Mandatory clap time sounds horrible haha. I guess it's nowhere as near as robotic as it sounds in reality

Nothing about it sounds mandatory to me. It sounds like their team/company culture values recognition and openly & sincerely engages it as part of their schedule.

Re: Just Wanted to Say Thanks

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Post by eyelidlessness »

civilized wrote: post #22

Some people are pointing out how rare it is for GitHubbers to express gratitude, but GitHub doesn't exactly encourage it. Doesn't it feel inappropriate to express gratitude as an "issue"? Maybe if there was a natural place for these messages they'd be sent more often. To the extent that there are affordances for it (stars, emojis) it is actually quite popular to praise good work on GitHub.

I think the discussions feature might be a little more comfortable for more people to express gratitude, but like you said even that isn’t explicit enough. I also feel disinclined to post gratitude for fear it’ll register as noise.

IMO since GH tends to be somewhat aware of how people piggyback their platform, a README gratitude badge might be a good place to start. It can be as simple as a button click plus an optional prompt to add commentary. In fact, I might make this a smol project to see if it gets some traction.

Re: Just Wanted to Say Thanks

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Post by zuhayeer »

It feels really great to be on the receiving end of such gratitude, and honestly feels pretty great (if not greater) to give it out too.

One thing I also love to do, is talk people up outside of their presence. It takes nothing to mention how someone may have helped you and it's a great excuse to just spread positive energy.

Re: Just Wanted to Say Thanks

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Post by warent »

adar wrote: post #182
cutemonster wrote: post #165

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This is more "praise in public, when the boss says so, because the boss says so", though?

Nothing's stopping you from praising people at other times, is it?

Nobody is arguing that. The debate is around whether manufactured public praise is tasteless

Re: Just Wanted to Say Thanks

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Post by gfxgirl »

I've thought about trying to start some movement, not sure how to spread the word, that each open source project on github should make a "thank you" issue and pin it as a place for people to say thank you.

AFAIK It's frowned on to say thank you in issues but it also sucks to have projects with 100s or 1000s of stars/forks and not a single thank you what so ever.

Medium has the "claps" but I think it would be even nicer when you clicked it it prompted for a comment.

Re: Just Wanted to Say Thanks

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Post by solarengineer »

cutemonster wrote: post #165
cacois wrote: post #163

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Of course you are entitled to your opinion, but "praise in public, punish in private" is a saying for a reason. Praise is more effective in public, and praising one person on the team publicly benefits the entire team, not just that person.

This is more "praise in public, when the boss says so, because the boss says so", though?

One can praise without the boss having us do so.

Really, it’s about noticing and acknowledging good work or behaviour.

Re: Just Wanted to Say Thanks

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Post by judge2020 »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #74
atoav wrote: post #69

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While opening an issue might be the lowest effort option I think there are two better options: 1. If you just wanna thank them, write an email 2. If you want to do so publicly, do so on a public channel (e.g. Blog post, HN, youtube channel, etc)

#1 only targets one person. #2 possibly won’t even be seen by the target. Opening an issue is seen by the whole team and becomes a place for the community to weigh in. Seems ideal until Github provides better.

> l until Github provides better.

https://github.blog/changelog/2020-12-08-github-discussions-...

Re: Just Wanted to Say Thanks

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Post by mihaifm »

gfxgirl wrote: post #196

I've thought about trying to start some movement, not sure how to spread the word, that each open source project on github should make a "thank you" issue and pin it as a place for people to say thank you. AFAIK It's frowned on to say thank you in issues but it also sucks to have projects with 100s or 1000s of stars/forks and not a single thank you what so ever. Medium has the "claps" but I think it would be even nic…

It always bothered me that Github uses “Issues” for the name of the discussion board, as if encountering problems is the only reason to engage in conversation with the author.
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