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This might just be me, but I actually hate these things. They always feel forced and corny and seeing the notification in a channel and thinking it is something interesting only to have it be another copy paste good morning message is distracting and annoying.

I fully acknowledge I may be the odd one out here, as I find any repeated action like this quickly becomes either noise that gets ignored or creates a sense of obligation that breeds resentment.

Even discord’s welcome emotes feel super fake and shallow. I’d rather people actually send human messages or not say anything.

Old man rant over.

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You're not alone. I think it depends on what group chat represents for you.

For me, group chats are a way to coordinate with people and share with people. Token or ritual messages do neither of those things and feel like misuse to me. I'd find the GP's group chats to be noisy and obnoxious and I'd be gone in a minute.

Connecting with people is something I do in other ways and by other mediums (and usually involve more mindful effort than token/ritual messages anyway).

Entirely agree with you.

People will walk into the office, say good morning to everyone, then log into their computer and post "good morning" on Slack.

Same routine at end of day. Type "good night", then walk around and actually say good night to people.

90% of our Slack history is just "good morning" and "good night", repeated for 4 years.

(We're all back in office, and don't use Slack for anything cool)

> 90% of our Slack history is just "good morning" and "good night", repeated for 4 years.

Better write a bot for that! Save your company some serious overhead right there =)

Everyone is slightly different.

I am the type that likes saying good morning and telling people to have a good weekend on chat.

This is largely for myself. It makes me feel like I am part of the team. It is how I would interact on any team I am part of.

Most other people on the team don't respond and that is perfectly fine. I would say I am more the odd one out than you though. You sound more like the average person who thinks it is kind of stupid so doesn't respond.

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