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Actually, that makes sense to me.. SO tries very hard not to be a forum and therefore everything that resembles footers, signatures etc. should be left out. On
by gizzlon 14y ago
Actually, that makes sense to me.. SO tries very hard not to be a forum and therefore everything that resembles footers, signatures etc. should be left out. On SO you thank people by up-voting and accepting answers, not commenting. Questions should be as "clean" as possible, they are not emails or letters. They should be free of that type of "social etiquette". Or, actually, when I think about it, the social etiquette on SO is to leave all those niceties out.
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- dinkumthinkum 14y agoBut does that really qualify as social etiquette or is it just mindless rule following? Honest question.
- gizzlon 14y agoI think it is.. Remember reading about it (lost the link) and thinking that it made a lot of sense. Also, it seems like mindless rule-following is the definition of etiquette :D "Etiquette: noun a set of rules for behaving correctly in social situations"
- dinkumthinkum 14y agoNo etiquette is not mindless there are reasons that go beyond, "StackOverflow founder said and it was so."