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Please Don't Say Just Hello in Chat
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Re: Please Don't Say Just Hello in Chat
#32You can always fill up your copy buffer with a question so as soon as saying hi, you can send the question.
Why not just prepend "Hi, " to your question all in one line?
Re: Please Don't Say Just Hello in Chat
#33You can always fill up your copy buffer with a question so as soon as saying hi, you can send the question.
This.
I'm always afraid they might be presenting or otherwise showing their screen to someone who is not supposed to read my question.
Re: Please Don't Say Just Hello in Chat
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Re: Please Don't Say Just Hello in Chat
#35I originally wrote this text on an internal wiki page at Google. It was short-linked to "go/nohello" and sparked a fair bit of discussion, including another page with exactly the opposite viewpoint. I have no idea who Brandon High is, but he must have copied it from inside Google and posted it publicly.
Re: Please Don't Say Just Hello in Chat
#36So this is one way to do it. But it has its downsides too [and thus I find the webpage slightly pedantic for ignoring the tradeoffs]. I think the "Hello" is like "Syn." Cases where you may want to use hello are 1. You need an immediate response, if they are afk then you don't want to ask them the question at all because you'll ask somebody else. 2. You want to signal that you'd like to talk to them when they're free,…
staring a slack window after receiving "hey" and not doing the work i was doing before receiving said "hey" is very very aggrivating.
And I'm not trying to discount your experience, rather I'm trying to show that there are other people who have contradictory preferences... and raise the discussion from a "my way is objectively best!" to a conversation.
Re: Please Don't Say Just Hello in Chat
#37If 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 whatev…
Yup. I ignore a lot of "hey"s, if you respond then it just incentivizes more later. No one has complained but I'd just complain back about their inefficiency. If it's an emergency, they can call me twice.
Re: Please Don't Say Just Hello in Chat
#38I just wait for the second ping (that usually has the details) before sending an ACK.
Re: Please Don't Say Just Hello in Chat
#39So this is one way to do it. But it has its downsides too [and thus I find the webpage slightly pedantic for ignoring the tradeoffs]. I think the "Hello" is like "Syn." Cases where you may want to use hello are 1. You need an immediate response, if they are afk then you don't want to ask them the question at all because you'll ask somebody else. 2. You want to signal that you'd like to talk to them when they're free,…
For 1, I'd rather just go ahead and ask, and if no response is forthcoming, ask someone else and then respond to the original with 'no worries, found out from ...'
Re: Please Don't Say Just Hello in Chat
#40I originally wrote this text on an internal wiki page at Google. It was short-linked to "go/nohello" and sparked a fair bit of discussion, including another page with exactly the opposite viewpoint. I have no idea who Brandon High is, but he must have copied it from inside Google and posted it publicly.
Was going to say. He could have at least stole the other counter-articles as well.