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Are Help Vampires related to Attention Vampires? Those folks who message you in chat, “Hi”.

I always wonder how many people they ‘Hi’ at once.



I hate that so very much. There's no problem starting with a salutation, but just hit alt-enter or else I have to wait 5 minutes for you to finish typing out the entirety of "Moby Dick" in chat.


Why wait? Just keep doing your stuff.


Because the people that do that the most need tend to need something urgently that will make me stop what I'm doing and handle their problem anyway. I'd rather just be interrupted all at once than in dribs and drabs.


Share this site with them: https://nohello.net


I like that content but I wish they would update their site so that if one has javascript disabled it either server-side redirects based on accept-language or just defaults to https://nohello.net/en/


I typically just ignore if for 30 minutes. It seems that they do learn eventually!


I usually don’t even reply to those. When I do, it’s simply “Hi” back.




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