Questions tagged [thanks]
Questions related to saying thanks and other forms of gratitude, whether in comments or at the end of posts, or a Meta Stack Exchange thread dedicated to waving an employee who is leaving goodbye. Questions about the 'Thanks' reaction on Stack Overflow are OFF TOPIC and should be asked at Meta Stack Overflow instead.
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Farewell Yaakov and thanks for the haiku!
You may soon notice one fewer diamond around the site. The amazing developer, tech lead, and community advocate Yaakov Ellis - user 51(!) - has taken an opportunity elsewhere and today, December 7th, ...
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Thank You, V2Blast
V2Blast is one of those folks who - to me represented a rare mix of skills. I knew him before he was hired and I often found he was a tireless advocate of the places he community managed at and ...
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Thank you, Catija
I've had the pleasure of working with some great community managers here. Cat is one of those folks who's always been cheerful, and deeply cared about this spot. We often nagged her to go to sleep ...
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Is flagging a bunch of "thanks" comments OK?
I made a SEDE query to find all the comments that contained thank, the @ character, weren't saying yes/no to something, and were less than 20 characters. The query is here. It returned over 1400 ...
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Thank you, Marc Gravell!
Today, valued associate #6 Marc Gravell announced he's leaving the company:
Excited, scared, happysad.
The end of a personal era; after over 11 years (https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/06/09/welcome-...
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Thank you, Jarrod Dixon
Jarrod Dixon, Stack Overflow Valued Associate #00002, announced yesterday that he is no longer working at Stack Overflow:
@jarrod_dixon: After over 13 years at @StackOverflow, today is my last day :(
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Farewell, Brian!
Thursday we said goodbye to Brian Nickel, the dev largely responsible for the (sadly, now de-listed) Stack Exchange iOS app... but he's done much more than that in his time here as a valued member of ...
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So long, and thanks for all the fish Nick Craver!
Some folks tend to leave an indelible impression on the spaces they've been in, whether or not they're noticed. While admittedly, most of my interactions with Nick have been off the sites proper - ...
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Automatic reply or dialog for "thanks, this solves my issue" comments [duplicate]
I've stumbled upon many answers which had OP comments such as "thanks, this solves it" but OP forgot to accept (or possibly upvote) the answer.
I noted that if I flag such comments some of ...
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How do I thank Stack Exchange users in my thesis?
I am a graduate student of mathematics. I find the math.stackexchange.com site very useful in my understanding of mathematics. (I never used the site without mentioning about it in my homework, etc.)
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A big thank you, Tim Post
As you may have seen, this was Tim Post’s last week at Stack Overflow. To say that he has been a staple of this company for a very long time is an understatement. Tim has served as a community manager,...
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Thank you, Tim Post [duplicate]
https://twitter.com/tinkertim/status/1326989993928237057
Tomorrow is my last day at @StackOverflow. I can't begin to say how grateful I am to everyone that made the last (almost) 8 years of my career ...
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Is there any way to thank editors of my questions? [duplicate]
I recently asked a handful of questions. Since my native language isn't English some of my text isn't on par with what some users are used to reading.
While I always try to learn from other users' ...
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Thank you, Geoff
It seems that after 11 years, Geoff Dalgas - "Valued Associate #00003" - has decided to hang up his hat as a developer at Stack Exchange.
That deserves... Some recognition and gratitude!
Let'...
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The new thanks feature on Stack Overflow is terrible.
But there's a reasonable problem that has been identified: non-signed-in users don't get to say anything. For obvious reasons, we have avoided ...
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