Here's the relevant Meta SO post about that [0] and the main meta SE discussion about it [1]. The guy posting [0] has 145k in reputation and writes comments alo

Here's the relevant Meta SO post about that [0] and the main meta SE discussion about it [1]. The guy posting [0] has 145k in reputation and writes comments along these lines: > So I started to remove "Thanks in advanced", which in addition to being inappropriate for Stack Exchange, is a corruption of the English language, and needs to be stamped out before too many people decide that it's correct English (thus making it into correct English). Basically hostile combined with lots of power in SO. Edit: I've just seen that an answer to the Meta SO question above [0] got 12 down votes [2] is specifically suggesting what the Stack Overflow blog is - that we have to be more inclusive If SO does want to be inclusive the pedants with power are going to get pretty annoyed. But they're the ones that do a ton of the work so I'm interested to see how it works out. I still think that I should defend SO, it's the most transparent place I know on the internet. They've done a good job trying to keep it inclusive but it's a ridiculously hard job especially on the scale of Stack Exchange. [0]: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/288160/no-thanks-damn-it https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/288160/no-thanks-da... [1]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2950/should-hi-thanks-taglines-and-salutations-be-removed-from-posts https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2950/should-hi-than... [2]: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/288204/327074 https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/288204/327074