I care a lot about what other people think (not good) and if someone tries to help or helps me, I can’t stay without saying thank you. I really want to thank people who comment on my posts. But many times I ask a lot of questions and I thus reply to a lot of comments and try to be polite and show how grateful I am. So, now, I have seen many people abandoning their posts after they get their answer without upvotes or replies or followups, I am pretty sure they are better at time management than I am. Now, what do you think?

What is the right way to behave when you post and random strangers help you? I know you all don’t think about me all the time and if you made a comment you probably will forget about it, so is it ok to just upvote and forget even the people who help you? I have an exam in a few months and I should not be wasting my time rn, what would you do if you were in my place?

Don’t say “dont’ create posts” because I like the people here and the answers they give, but yeah, it’s a hell of a job to reply “satisfactorily”. Again, should I just “upvote and ignore”?

Also, I just want to say that people here are amazing. You guys are very helpful! Like, especially on c/linux! Such helpful communities are one of the things that make Linux great and more usable! Thank you to the folks at c/linux btw

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    1 year ago

    This is extremely childish. I don’t think about my waiter once I leave the restaurant but that doesn’t mean that I won’t be polite while I’m there. There are (usually) real people reading your words. That interaction is real.

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        1 year ago

        It all has meaning if you give it meaning. It has no meaning to you, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have meaning to everyone you’re interacting with. Knowing the internet, you’re probably better off not caring about the opinion of other internet posters so long as you don’t feed that toxicity yourself, not that calling the internet chucklefucks is toxic, I know you’re just messing around