Comment on Why people say good morning (or something like that) on chat after a night?
SVcross@lemmy.world 10 months agoIt’s fascinating to see and understand the unwritten rules, and have them written. Sometimes a rule it’s obvious to some, others like me, find them just weird.
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Here’s the thing, it is weird for today technology, because you never truly go away from the chatroom. But back in the IRC times joining a chatroom was very similar to entering a room, you would only see messages sending from then on, so if you wanted to keep track of a chat you were having after you left you needed to leave your computer connected and online, so it was impossible to know when someone was online and when they just had left the computer on to follow up on a thread that was happening when he went to sleep, so it was a common courtesy, just like saying hello when walking into a room. It was a way of telling people “I’am here now”, but most chatrooms today have an away status you can set.
I agree it doesn’t make sense on discord or whatever, which is why I don’t do it there. But it might be one of those things that people just keep perpetuating because it’s what they always did.