[alexandercrohde]

So this is one way to do it. But it has its downsides too [and thus I find the webpage slightly pedantic for ignoring the tradeoffs]. I think the "Hello" is like "Syn." Cases where you may want to use hello are

1. You need an immediate response, if they are afk then you don't want to ask them the question at all because you'll ask somebody else.

2. You want to signal that you'd like to talk to them when they're free, but that your message is low priority. Generally I'd take a "hey" off-hours to mean "don't answer this unless you're on slack at your computer. Pong me back when you're in the office"

3. Some people care more about the communication being natural and human interaction than they do responding to the maximal number of things in a day. If we have to sacrifice our ability to enjoy our intercations with other people for our job, I'd ask that we don't sacrifice without a fight.

[sebbean]

staring a slack window after receiving "hey" and not doing the work i was doing before receiving said "hey" is very very aggrivating.

[alexandercrohde]

And I'm not trying to discount your experience, rather I'm trying to show that there are other people who have contradictory preferences... and raise the discussion from a "my way is objectively best!" to a conversation.

[infinite8s]

For 1, I'd rather just go ahead and ask, and if no response is forthcoming, ask someone else and then respond to the original with 'no worries, found out from ...'