[nmeofthestate]

>they start conversations and are interrupted

It's not about interruption really, it's about a style of using chat apps that wastes peoples' attention and is easily avoided.

> they receive hundreds of notifications

okay, so this nohello thing is good advice to help reduce the noise.

[pas]

not to mention that if someone is supposed to be a professional coordinator, they would benefit from being a good communicator. starting a discussion with "hi" and disappearing for minutes is absolutely disrespectful and shitty, not to mention the opposite of efficient.

they need to work on their time management.

[SOLAR_FIELDS]

I mean, maybe I’m rude but if someone just messages me Hi on slack I simply ignore it until they send something more substantial.

[TeMPOraL]

It's fine unless the other person is your superior. Too many managers are oblivious to the fact that their authority over other people's futures makes every interaction threatening by default.

[ryandrake]

I've always liked the band Kraftwerk's [past] strategy for dealing with interruptions, from their Wiki page[1]:

"... anyone trying to contact the band for collaboration would be told the studio telephone did not have a ringer since, while recording, the band did not like to hear any kind of noise pollution. Instead, callers were instructed to phone the studio precisely at a certain time, whereupon the phone would be answered by Ralf Hütter, despite never hearing the phone ring."

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraftwerk