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I on the other hand don't enjoy people who write paragraph upon paragraph in a single message. Its chat. Just quickly hammer off your stream of consciousness ra

I on the other hand don't enjoy people who write paragraph upon paragraph in a single message. Its chat. Just quickly hammer off your stream of consciousness rambling into the chat; send an email otherwise. Look at it this way, they're gonna make their point anyway. The sooner you know the better ;)

wruza 5y ago
Sending message after message with no complete point until last one is like holding a mutex to the person’s attention. Annoyance, there is no other way to look at it.
- dukeyukey 5y ago
  As long as it's asynchronous I'm fine with people doing this. It's coworkers who go "Hello dukeyukey" and pause is what annoys me. Being polite is great, but let me know what you want before I decide to drop what I'm working on to chat about it.
  - Macha 5y ago
    Yeah "Yt?" "Yes" "Coworker is typing..." for 20 minutes The above is a way more frustrating interaction because it feels that now the coworker feels I'm obligated to respond to a much longer query than I had anticipated. I'd expected a short query which I could either answer offhand or evaluate its priority to indicate if I had time to handle it. Instead I now need to let someone down that after 20 minutes of explaining their problem, I actually don't have the time or info to help them debug their CI build. It's gotten to the point that I simply stopped answering these naked hellos/yt questions.
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  - johannes1234321 5y ago
    even worth is A: Hello @B! ... waiting ... B: yeah, what's up? A: how are you? B: fine, what's up? A: i have a question B: ... okay ... A: (now the real question comes, whuch then requires lots of clarification ...) B: yes (or "no" and thst's the full answer needed)
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  - Cthulhu_ 5y ago
    You can passive-aggressively link them to https://nohello.net/ https://nohello.net/ or https://nohello.club/ https://nohello.club/, see if they get the message. A worse one yet is where they go "hello?", then an X minutes after you sigh and say 'yeah?' they call you.

wruza 5y ago

Sending message after message with no complete point until last one is like holding a mutex to the person’s attention. Annoyance, there is no other way to look at it.

dukeyukey 5y ago
As long as it's asynchronous I'm fine with people doing this. It's coworkers who go "Hello dukeyukey" and pause is what annoys me. Being polite is great, but let me know what you want before I decide to drop what I'm working on to chat about it.
- Macha 5y ago
  Yeah "Yt?" "Yes" "Coworker is typing..." for 20 minutes The above is a way more frustrating interaction because it feels that now the coworker feels I'm obligated to respond to a much longer query than I had anticipated. I'd expected a short query which I could either answer offhand or evaluate its priority to indicate if I had time to handle it. Instead I now need to let someone down that after 20 minutes of explaining their problem, I actually don't have the time or info to help them debug their CI build. It's gotten to the point that I simply stopped answering these naked hellos/yt questions.
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- johannes1234321 5y ago
  even worth is A: Hello @B! ... waiting ... B: yeah, what's up? A: how are you? B: fine, what's up? A: i have a question B: ... okay ... A: (now the real question comes, whuch then requires lots of clarification ...) B: yes (or "no" and thst's the full answer needed)
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- Cthulhu_ 5y ago
  You can passive-aggressively link them to https://nohello.net/ https://nohello.net/ or https://nohello.club/ https://nohello.club/, see if they get the message. A worse one yet is where they go "hello?", then an X minutes after you sigh and say 'yeah?' they call you.