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+title: The No Hello Nonsense!
+categories: ["ideas", "rant"]
+---
+
+In a mood to roast the pretentious no-hello movement
+If you are not familiar with the term no-hello, you probably work with nice people
+(Necessary, but not a sufficient condition 🤷). 
+
+--------
+
+# Not just hello! Just ask the question
+
+
+**No-Hello** is a term used widely in the developer communities to mean that they don't want
+to just be greeted with a message that goes "hello" on their messaging platform (Teams, slack,
+whatsapp and so on). Instead, they prefer getting the full context as part of the initial message.
+
+In other words, no-helloers hate the following,
+
+| Normal Person | *Hello!*
+| No-helloer | *Hi!*
+| Normal Person | *I need some help with blah blah blah.. do you know about it blah etc.*
+
+and would instead prefer to have the normal person send their first message this way
+
+| Normal Person | *Hello! I need some help with blah ....*
+
+
+No-helloers allege that the second version is more productive and doesn't waste anyone's time.
+They proudly showcase their ideology as a status message that is shown whenever someone tries
+to message the person. Often they link to a web page such as [https://nohello.net](https://nohello.net).
+They get mad if someone sends just a "Hi". 
+
+The following are the status messages of a couple of no-helloer from my company. Everyone trying to
+send them a message is presented with a small non-intrusive floating dialog box with this message
+
+| https://nohello.net - Please don't say just hello, send the entire message
+| Please write your question in your initial IM (https://nohello.net)
+
+# OK, that's enough 😠
+
+[Instant messaging](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_messaging) apps are designed to be asynchronous.
+The sender can send a message and it is not necessary for the receiver to immediately respond to the said message.
+No-helloers completely miss the point of these softwares.
+
+There are some genuine reasons why starting a chat with a simple "Hi!" or a friendly matter makes sense. 
+
+- Sender wants to make sure that you are available and can respond to this chat before they proceed
+with sharing the complete context.
+- Sender is new to the team and is nervous starting a conversation.
+- Sender is not a machine to avoid such polite expressions.
+
+As a receiver of a "Hi" message, you can
+
+- **Send a "Hi" back** and go back to doing what you were doing. As simple as that. If you care too much about
+your time - at the millisecond level, to not do this, then you can use the other option below.
+- **Ignore the message** and go back to what you were doing. If the sender never comes back, you have
+one less thing to worry about. If the sender does respond with a new message with details, respond to that.
+
+Considering the fact that simple options to deal with this behavior exists, antagonizing
+the behavior of just sending "Hello" is plain ridiculous. The only person losing time is the person asking you 
+a question and while asking them to directly come to the point might be in their best interests, it is pretentious
+to ask them to do this while interacting with **YOU** as an IM status message as opposed to asking them
+to do this while interacting with anyone in general.
+
+Personally, I would stick to option 1 in most cases, and switch to option 2, when I feel like I might end up
+[suffering a fool](https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/not+suffer+fools).

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