Haha I remember at Google, we had an escalating series of go/ links for people's chat preferences: nohello, yeshello, notonlyhello, etc etc. This always just

Haha I remember at Google, we had an escalating series of go/ links for people's chat preferences: nohello, yeshello, notonlyhello, etc etc. This always just seemed like common sense to me, and I say that as someone whose in-person manner of speech is substantially more polite and flowery than most people. There doesn't seem to me to be a big difference in politeness or friendliness between "hello <new IM> [content]" and "hello, [content]".