Hello :),
I try to improve the code of conduct based on my experience and feelings.
My first suggestion would be to ask people to at least say Hello when they post and reply:
I think there is something really wrong on the Internet.
In my opinion, you cannot be respectful when you don’t say Hello.
When we are very young our parents teach us to say Hello.
Because otherwise, for dogs and wolves, only the weak “say hello” to the strong.
When I say and repeat “Hello/Best regards” from the start and after,
and someone doesn’t his instincts go to alpha male and mine go to beta-male and it is bad,
and should be avoided…
Thousands of years to teach little humans “Say Hello”, a few decades of Internet and everyone becomes rude.
I know I’m right because I see that the instincts are still there and not only for me.
But like I said, I’m accustomed to this and I do efforts, I keep saying Hello/Best regards, unless it is on StackOverflow because it is explictly forbidden and posts are edited there when you do (it’s fine, it’s Q&A, not chat).
I understand you may not have my opinion.
But I hope I made you realize something with this paragraph.
Best regards,
Laurent Lyaudet
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Laurent, thank you for the idea.
I understand what you are saying, but can you imagine billions upon billions of posts and comments all starting with “Hello” and ending with “Best regards”? It would be overwhelming clutter.
This really isn’t how the internet works, and it’s not rude to avoid doing this on forums.
You are welcome to continue to do it. Some people might enjoy it, some people might find it quaint, and I strongly doubt that anyone would be offended. I’m not going to do it, because, as I say, it just becomes overwhelming clutter.
Most forums are designed for transmitting information, and it can be helpful to (politely) get to the point. People don’t have an awful lot of time especially on support forums such as this.
I’ll leave that sort of thing to emails and letters, which tend to be more personal and have fewer communication transactions.
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Hello @paddylandau 
Thanks for answering frankly :).
“quaint” I just looked at this word here:
https://www.wordreference.com/enfr/quaint
I didn’t know. “Hereafter, I shall be quaint.” XD
Quite frankly, I read and write a lot and what makes me lose my time is clearly not “Hello/Best regards”. Compared to bikeshedding and clouding the issue because of fast answers without enough understanding of the request/demand, saying Hello is not an issue.
In my opinion, we drop useful basics, to quote the gospel we stop the mosquito with a sieve and eat the camel.
I like to occasionally be lazy but saying hello has never been something too demanding for me.
Best regards,
Laurent Lyaudet
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P.-S. : Not saying hello is some kind of irrelevant micro-optimization to me. I’ll quote Knuth “Premature optimization is the root of all evil.” 