Timeline for Slack culture in fully remote workplace - send "Hello" before asking a question?
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| Feb 21, 2023 at 16:32 | comment | added | SiHa | @ZachLipton Exactly what I do in Teams. | |
| Feb 21, 2023 at 8:26 | comment | added | Zach Lipton | On Slack, you can also type your "hello" greetings, press shift-enter twice to create a paragraph break, type your question, and then send both parts as one single multi-paragraph message. This means the recipient only gets one notification and one message, and your question is visually separated from the greeting so it stands out more | |
| Feb 21, 2023 at 1:56 | comment | added | 0x1mason | Isolated "Hello" is a total anti-pattern. | |
| Feb 20, 2023 at 18:31 | comment | added | ilkkachu | "If you want to say hello, make it part of the main message" -- I have a cheat there. Type the actual question first, then cut it, send the "hello", and then paste the actual question in a different message half a second later. Avoids the downsides but helps if you feel you need to be polite and start with a greeting... | |
| Feb 20, 2023 at 17:14 | comment | added | Olivier Dulac | the 2nd paragraph is the appropriate answer: ask the question and in the same message precede it with the greeting, so that the receving person sees: "hello, I would like to discuss [all context necessary for an answer]" and not just "hello" | |
| Feb 20, 2023 at 10:01 | history | answered | Abigail | CC BY-SA 4.0 |