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Re:Collaborate with kindness: Etiquette tips in Slack by forbiddenvoid on Monday March 28, 2022 @06:02PM (#30836165)
"Scared of public channels" often means "doesn't have the psychological safety to say something out loud that might end up being perceived negatively or as though they don't know what they're doing."
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Re:Collaborate with kindness: Etiquette tips in Slack by gbjw on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @12:35AM (#30838799)
Sure -- or people don't want to clog up channels with what they perceive to be minutiae or very context-specific questions requiring some back-and-forth.
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Re:Collaborate with kindness: Etiquette tips in Slack by Cthulhu_ on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @05:00AM (#30840341)
Which is fair, as long as it's concrete, the addressee is actually available and on the clock, and the question can only be answered by that person.

I'm active on a programming language Slack space, what sometimes happens is that people are DMed directly with a generic / open question that dozens of others could also answer.

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Re:Collaborate with kindness: Etiquette tips in Slack by watwut on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @02:17AM (#30839413)
For which, I am thankful to them. Nothing better then dozens of irrelevant chat messages in larger group chats I am member of that I cant mute, because once in a while there is something important.
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Re:Collaborate with kindness: Etiquette tips in Slack by tomp on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @03:54AM (#30839963)
You should use threads for that.
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Re:Collaborate with kindness: Etiquette tips in Slack by BeFlatXIII on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @04:04AM (#30840027)
I mute them anyway because I won’t see the important message among all the chit-chat notifications, so I cut the middleman.
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Re:Collaborate with kindness: Etiquette tips in Slack by kedmi on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @06:25AM (#30840813)
Couldn't phrase it better.

I know for a fact that anonymity can be used to encourage diversity of thought and honesty on public channels - this is the feedback I get from customers of a service I run (https://AnonymityBot.com).

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Re:Collaborate with kindness: Etiquette tips in Slack by manmal on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @01:45AM (#30839189)
I personally don’t have a problem with posting in public, but I can imagine that for many people it would remind them of being singled out in a school class.
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