First post on StackOverflow... I wanna say thank you for a solution and get a fucking public flogging for it.

Yeah, welcome to our community newbie. Know your place. Fuck you Yunnosch & fuck you StackOverflow

Yeah, that's right. Answers section is for answers, and if everyone starts writing "thank you" it easily becomes a mess, it would only add noise.

StackOverflow is not a forum, it's more like a Q/A repository

@Jason "thank you" is not allowed as a comment either. It's been discussed in the meta, in the end the community decided that it adds nothing since there are upvotes for that

"Me, follow the rules? I don't think so!" - 90% of people complaining about Stack Overflow

@msdsk this is a great case of RTFM : https://stackoverflow.com/help/...

You got an answer by SO and you got a polite explanation from Yunnosch for why you should not write "thank you" answers. He probably wasn’t even the one who downvoted.

And then you say Fuck you to SO and to that Yunnosch guy.

Dipshits like you are the problem.

@Jason well maybe a new user who is UNABLE TO READ THE FUCKING MANUAL before posting _shouldn't_ add a comment at all?

@Goldfishrock - read the fucking manual for things before using things, and maybe people won't call you out for not reading the fucking manual. also can you provide a link please? i want to add my downvote.

Guess that's me told! Thanks chaps 🤣

New users can only post questions, post answers, and accept answers. They cannot write comments. They cannot vote. If they add noise to the platform by accidentally posting a thanks post, more noise will follow suit in the comments.

Reading the manual is fine, but so is good and helpful UX. "Are you trying to post a thank you comment? Here is why you shouldn't". But that's not SO style. Ironic, but true: devrant is a mostly friendly and respectful place, although (or because ) the rules allow to be rude and noisy.

@Lensflare "the problem" 😂

People like the OP are the real culprits for all the many bad things going on in the world today.

THE PROBLEM

@fraktalisman well, judging by how very, very, very few people actually do read the rules after being asked to do so, i doubt that such a warning message would have any significant effect.

@tosensei the message should go beyond "Warning! Something is wrong. Please consult the manual!"

@fraktalisman
Have you tried to post a question on SO? Have you seen how much effort they put into communicating the rules there? And yet half of the questions are still "help my anus doesn't work: http://my.anus". You get to learn to be a snarky asshole after the fiftieth.

@msdsk I tried and did, but probably I don't see most of the new messages as I'm no new user and clicked away any onboarding notices.

I never tried to post a "thank you" answer there, so if there is a hint I did not see it.

Why not simply let people draft their thanks post, let them express their feelings, and once the system detects a "thank you" pattern, prevent people posting? Or anything like that.

I am no UX expert, but if there are already many notices and still "people don't understand the software and use it in the wrong way" maybe there is something wrong about the right way, anyway.