This argument has been beaten to death. People are not robots. Stop being obnoxious.
this helps them understand they are being obnoxious. i don't think they were aware
Please Don't Say Just Hello in Chat
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Re: Please Don't Say Just Hello in Chat
#22The reason why it's natural to do this is most of us don't want to waste time typing out a long-winded question if there's no one on the other side.
you can copy and paste that single question to the next person in the chain.. actually makes the workflow a bit easier
Re: Please Don't Say Just Hello in Chat
#232010-07-19 12:00:00 co-worker: Hi 2010-07-19 12:00:30 me: Hello 2010-07-19 12:10:00 co-worker: I have a question about Facebook. Are you the right person to ask? 2010-07-19 12:10:25 me: May be. What's your question? 2010-07-19 12:20:25 co-worker: I want to know ... 2010-07-19 12:21:10 me: No, sorry. For that, you need to contact ... Fast version: 2010-07-19 12:00:00 co-worker: Hi. I don't know if you are the right qu…
So basically just skip hitting Enter..
Re: Please Don't Say Just Hello in Chat
#24I strive to respect other people's time/concentration and I appreciate the same. So I typically start chats with, "Hey, do you have a minute?" to give them the chance to say no.
Re: Please Don't Say Just Hello in Chat
#25I strive to respect other people's time/concentration and I appreciate the same. So I typically start chats with, "Hey, do you have a minute?" to give them the chance to say no.
You already interrupted them. Whether they have a minute depends on what you want.
Re: Please Don't Say Just Hello in Chat
#26Perhaps the client could help here? :-)
Other user types any of the common greetings alone (hi/hello/hey)
Client responds with: "this is an automated response - your greeting has been blocked until you provide a more meaningful reply"
Then filter out some rude/idiotic replies and keep filtering until the response's entropy is above a threshold and the sentence has some basic structure or presence of a couple of POS (eg a verb and noun)
Re: Please Don't Say Just Hello in Chat
#27Seems like a problem that a scriptable chat client should solve: if it's the first message in a long time and it's short, debounce notifications for 30sec~1min.
Not a silver bullet but it might solve it in many cases
It reminds me of my old mIRC scripting days
Re: Please Don't Say Just Hello in Chat
#28Seems like a problem that a scriptable chat client should solve: if it's the first message in a long time and it's short, debounce notifications for 30sec~1min. Not a silver bullet but it might solve it in many cases It reminds me of my old mIRC scripting days
Snap! Great suggestion there
Re: Please Don't Say Just Hello in Chat
#29Perhaps the client could help here? :-) Other user types any of the common greetings alone (hi/hello/hey) Client responds with: "this is an automated response - your greeting has been blocked until you provide a more meaningful reply" Then filter out some rude/idiotic replies and keep filtering until the response's entropy is above a threshold and the sentence has some basic structure or presence of a couple of POS (…
Snap! Great suggestion there :)
Re: Please Don't Say Just Hello in Chat
#30If it bugs you just don't respond to the hello. If someone complains just say you were waiting for the actual content (no one just says hello on chat for no reason). You assumed that the hello was just to warn you that something longer was being typed and that you shouldn't immediately leave.
The nice feature of this approach is that you can immediately leave if you know that you really don't want to deal with whatever it is that is coming and can legitimately say you never saw it.