Add a mention about people saying 'I need help' or similar

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Add a mention about people saying 'I need help' or similar #115

Open ElonSatoshi opened 1 year ago

ElonSatoshi commented 1 year ago

I've had some people on Matrix channels say "Help" or "Need help" or something like that. I've been linking them to this site because even though they're saying 'help' instead of 'hello', I feel like it creates a similar problem.

ParagDoke commented 1 year ago

More variations:

Need to speak to you
Quick call?
Are you there?
Busy?

And then there are more who split even simple sentences into a few words per message:

Wanted to talk
about XYZ issue
when you are free

AlfredoSequeida commented 6 months ago

@ElonSatoshi @ParagDoke I had the same idea, so I made a website inspired by no hello that lets you make your own variation.Still work in progress, but here it is: https://goodpractice.info/

ParagDoke commented 2 months ago

@AlfredoSequeida This is a good one. Thank you for sharing!

I'm wondering if you have moderators for your site. I came across one with a really strong opinion: https://www.goodpractice.info/dont-sleep-everyday

Without moderation, it is not long until pretty "creative" and/or "relevant only to some" stuff shows up there. But again, your intent is great and attempt is even better!

One idea is asking people to commit to a git repo for a github hosted site maybe, where PRs for the main branch can be reviewed. 'Coz without that, the practices are likely to snowball into anything ... even geopolitical opinions. Whereas I thought we wanted to address workplace digital conversations ... and leave alone most of the other stuff.

AlfredoSequeida commented 2 months ago

@ParagDoke Hey I think this is a great suggestion, I have thought the same myself. However, the reason I have not implemented moderation is because

Not a lot of people are using the site, so it has not been too much of an issue yet.
Most people will simply link directly to their good practice, so the other practices might never be seen by others.
I don't want to confine someone to a platform they must know how to use to contribute. In other words, using GitHub would provide too much friction encouraging users not to use the site/contribute as not everyone might know how / want to use GitHub.

Maybe in the future, I can add a downvote feature to bring attention to bad posts and later decide what to do with those posts.