[silviogutierrez]

I always link them to nohello.com

The full post explains how to avoid being rude.

[dvtrn]

It's funny you link that because as soon as my fingers hit reply on my first comment, I began looking for blog posts to see if anyone had written about how frustratingly distracting the 'naked hello' (as I call it to my office mate) is.

Definitely putting this in my slack status right now. Thanks

[wffurr]

It's almost too stereotypical for the chat examples on that page to look like IRC.