Should salutations be removed from questions?

Question

While reviewing suggested edits I noticed that some users sometimes edit others posts and remove salutations like

[Question text which follows the rules]

...

Thanks!

or

[Question text which follows the rules]

...

Thanks a lot

[Name]

Should we remove salutations? I personally wouldn't like it if somebody else edits my posts like that. At least thanking in advance should be ok in my opinion. Begin polite is also part of a community. I'd suggest to only remove extended salutations, e.g. if they more look like these much-beloved 10 line mail signatures.

What is your take on this?

Answer 1

The rules for stackoverflow apply to magento.SE.
See this for reference.
I read some of the answers (I hope I didn't miss something importan) and my conclusion is salutations are kind of a grey area. They are not encouraged but they are not banned.

Signing your posts...a big NO NO. You shouldn't do that.

Answer 2

When editing questions, I always remove "fluff" like that, as it is policy on StackOverflow as well, but I wouldn't go so far to edit questions just to remove "Thank you".

What I consider fluff:

• "thanks"
• salutation and signing
• irrelevant information about the poster (like "I am new to Magento")
• irrelevant information about the problem (like "this is urgent!!!111")

Side note: When reading "Thanks in advance", I always think about the quote:

this connotes an intention not to thank anybody afterwards

Answer 3

"Welcome to Magento.SE!" is a standard I use for first-timers. I think this should be an exception and be allowed.

Answer 4

Say Hi at first and an anticipated Thanks at the end just make it polite and no disturbance for the following readers.

Signing : Agreed with Marius answer, a big no no, simply because no matter what, the post is signed already, so that becomes redundant...