You're quite right - here's the link to his answer [0]. He's talking about removing 'Hi ya' rather than 'thanks'. But it is disheartening when someone edit's

You're quite right - here's the link to his answer [0]. He's talking about removing 'Hi ya' rather than 'thanks'. But it is disheartening when someone edit's your post to make it less friendly. Edit: plus there's an answer from Jon Skeet too [1] who also agrees with removing thanks [0]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/93989 https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/93989 [1]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/2960 https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/2960