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Turnig off notificwtions wouldn't solve it for me. With email I read through what others thought was important enough to include me. Even on mailing lists I can

Turnig off notificwtions wouldn't solve it for me. With email I read through what others thought was important enough to include me. Even on mailing lists I can mute threads I'm not interested in With slack I have to read everything. It's like having to read through not just my inbox but also everyone else's inbox and on top of that no way to mute threads period. Sure I can not follow a channel. That equivalent to a unsubscribing from a mailing list. But, like I said above, a mailing list has threads so I can mute or ignore any threads I'm not interested in. With slack I have to read it all

solipsism 10y ago
No. You don't have to read it all. Treat Slack like a hallway conversation. Do you insist on being there for every hallway conversation? Of course not. If you miss one that's okay because people know to put anything important in an email or on a wiki, after the hallway conversation is done. Treat Slack the same way. If it's the only place any important conversation lives you're doing it wrong.
- voidlogic 10y ago
  >Do you insist on being there for every hallway conversation? Of course not. Lots of people have a pathological fear of being left out / not in the know. Just the other day a co-worker was lamenting how much time he spends checking all the channels just because he didn't want to miss something... Because slack hallway conversations have a lower barrier than real ones, therefore it can be more taxing on people than real life, or other forms of communication, would be.
- greggman 10y ago
  Slack isn't treated that way. It's not the same as a hallway conversion. There's no record of a hallway conversation and no way to search or reference a hallway conversation. It's therefore impossible for anyone in a hallway conversion to think other people could do those things and therefore they don't act as though others could do those things. Slack on the other hand those things are possible and because they are possible many people expect their conversations on slack will be/must be referenced. You can claim all you want that's not what they should do but it's empirically what a large percentage of slack users actually do
  - solipsism 10y ago
    That's fine. They can do that, and then complain about it. If they happen to listen to me they'll be happier and not annoy everyone by complaining about features.

solipsism 10y ago

No. You don't have to read it all. Treat Slack like a hallway conversation. Do you insist on being there for every hallway conversation? Of course not. If you miss one that's okay because people know to put anything important in an email or on a wiki, after the hallway conversation is done. Treat Slack the same way. If it's the only place any important conversation lives you're doing it wrong.

voidlogic 10y ago
>Do you insist on being there for every hallway conversation? Of course not. Lots of people have a pathological fear of being left out / not in the know. Just the other day a co-worker was lamenting how much time he spends checking all the channels just because he didn't want to miss something... Because slack hallway conversations have a lower barrier than real ones, therefore it can be more taxing on people than real life, or other forms of communication, would be.
greggman 10y ago
Slack isn't treated that way. It's not the same as a hallway conversion. There's no record of a hallway conversation and no way to search or reference a hallway conversation. It's therefore impossible for anyone in a hallway conversion to think other people could do those things and therefore they don't act as though others could do those things. Slack on the other hand those things are possible and because they are possible many people expect their conversations on slack will be/must be referenced. You can claim all you want that's not what they should do but it's empirically what a large percentage of slack users actually do
- solipsism 10y ago
  That's fine. They can do that, and then complain about it. If they happen to listen to me they'll be happier and not annoy everyone by complaining about features.