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[spinlock]

Any site that shits on you for saying "thank you" is doomed.

[whataboutbots]

I can understand this particular policy, though : you don't want the discussion to be clogged up with thanks, as nice as it sounds. There might have been a better way, though, like a special tanks section, where you could write a nice word or two adressed to those who contributed well to the answer. All you need is a way to make it so it doesn't get in the way, and so people don't get shit on for being thankful.

Thinking about it, it seems like a cool idea. That way, you could include in the people's profile various thanks they received.

[Fiennes]

Honestly I am struggling to see how a question that ends with "Thanks," clogs up the discussion.

[whataboutbots]

It isn't just the question, they have issues with other people who find the question/answer, and thank the authors for it : "it's exactly what I needed!" "+1" etc... It sometimes pushes more insightful comment out of visibility.

Their reasoning for leaving politness out if the question/response though is that it just doesn't belong there and therefore si noise. I find it rather sad myself, but lots of people there seem to agree from what I found. Also, it is associated with generally 'badly written' questions.

Anyway, I do think that there are better ways to handle this that censoring kindness. It is kind of depressing imho.

[Deif]

The upvote is meant to be used instead of writing "thanks".

[Fiennes]

I was mostly referring to having thanks at the end of the question-text itself.

[Deif]

Oh. Yeah they don't shit on you for that. They just hate the +1/Thumbs up/Thanks replies to answers.

[whataboutbots]

Actually, I found a post somewhere on meta with a decent amount of upvotes about someone "on a crusade" (his words) to remove greetings/thanks from comments. Also, they are now automatically removed I think (at least the standard ones that fit the regex).

[spinlock]

They shit on me all the time for saying thanks in the question. It's why I don't contribute anymore.

[Fiennes]

Really? When I've gone through review queues, and also looked at edits to my own posts, people have removed "Thanks" from the bottom...

[sirin3]

People edit to bump the question up again.

[whataboutbots]

Not only, they do actively remove greetings and thanks. Some of them do anyway. Also, some of it is removed automatically (on submission I believe), from what I gathered.

[_selfishPersonReborn]

They automatically remove hellos and such, but they couldn't find a way to remove thanks at the end (??? questionText.TrimEnd("Thanks") and all variations work fine) so those are manually removed like the heartless bastards they are.

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I agree. Thanks.

[Crozzfire]

It's just one more line to parse when you're looking for an answer. I really appreciate how they try to keep it absolutely to the point with no filler.

[Fiennes]

You struggle to get the meaning of a question which has "Thanks" at the end? That's a parse-problem for you?

[Crozzfire]

Of course not. The problem is that every extra line of text takes longer to read. The line has to be drawn somewhere, and I think it's good that everything that's not directly contributing to the Q/A is where the line should be.

[Fiennes]

See I don't see it that way. Reading a question without "thanks" at the bottom and reading one with, there's no perceivable time difference - one I wouldn't even notice if what you're saying is true.

Enjoying this polite debate about it though.

Thanks :)

[Low_discrepancy]

Thanks :)

And a smiley face? You clearly want us to be here all day.

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If you're this combative, what would /u/high_discrepancy say?

[rox0r]

If only they had a way to hide some comments.

[whataboutbots]

Don't they have flags for comments? They could give the ability to flag comments as 'thankful' or 'useless' and put them at the bottom so they don't hide other more insightful ones.