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Re: Just Wanted to Say Thanks

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

What could have caused you and the other one to not get any votes, at the previous workplace? I'm guessing it was not work performance or anything like that (The votes were publicly announced -- and also who had voted?)

It can be something simple like having work with more visible impact

_Perceived_ impact, if I might add?

Re: Just Wanted to Say Thanks

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post #45

Here is one I received last year: https://github.com/susam/uncap/issues/9 . The comment began with, "I just wanted to say thanks for the wonderful software." It made my day! The GitHub user interface should encourage this as a feature.

The restic issue template has a question about this:

> Did restic help you today? Did it make you happy in any way?

https://github.com/restic/restic/blob/master/.github/ISSUE_T...

Re: Just Wanted to Say Thanks

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There is a Swedish podcast (Snedtänkt) that has a lovely email address for contacting the show (I've translated from Swedish) - preferablyonlypositiveresponse@[email provider].

Not sure if it actually works, but I think it might prime people into a more positive mindset.

On a similar note I loved that emails from Readmill came from pleasereply@readmill.com as a contrast to the usual user hostile noreply addresses most companies use.

Re: Just Wanted to Say Thanks

#206

Github should natively cook in a project/user based tipping system to help people show their appreciation. This feels lazy to say but I know for a fact I would send tips way more frequently if they made tipping a one click experience. I know there are third party tools that let projects cook tip functionality into their projects. With how difficult it is to find time to write open source software alone, time put towa…

The subscription sponsorship like GitHub and OpenCollective offer are nice, but I encounter one-off opportunities much more frequently. There's been so many times I've wanted to just send somebody a tip because they gave a useful answer in a comment, a package's readme was really good, I liked the library but ended up not using it, etc. I know there's a few sites that do this already, but I rarely see them used.

Re: Just Wanted to Say Thanks

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I certainly feel the same way answering support emails for our sites. Understandably most of the emails are due to having some sort of problem, and many of the senders are frustrated. Even the positive ones are usually feature requests. Which is totally fine, and appreciated. But still, that occasional email sent just to say 'thanks' is always a treasure.

Re: Just Wanted to Say Thanks

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post #45

Here is one I received last year: https://github.com/susam/uncap/issues/9 . The comment began with, "I just wanted to say thanks for the wonderful software." It made my day! The GitHub user interface should encourage this as a feature.

Taking this opportunity to say Thank you as well! I've been using it for years on all of my machines, such a great piece of software, didn't expect to see it on here

I am glad you like Uncap. A comment like this provides good motivation to continue working on and maintaining an open source project in my free time. Thank you for posting this comment.

Re: Just Wanted to Say Thanks

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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…

We've got a `gratitude` channel in Slack for this exact thing! Its only purpose is to call out great work and nice gestures coworkers have done. Provides a nice little pick-me-up throughout the week.

Re: Just Wanted to Say Thanks

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post #100

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…

I wonder if the review system is stack ranked?
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