When I started out on EE.SE I asked a couple of questions with the "Thanks for help" line at the end because I wanted to express my genuine appreciation for people taking the time to answer my questions - only to find after 5 minutes people snagging it off.
Could I ask why this is? For the sake of appreciation and sacrificing one line, it seems pointless (except for those looking to earn the "editor" badge).
There are people, not being me, who think extra lines like that cause clutter.
I see the point of "Hello, ..." and "I have a very specific problem..." being removed, though the latter seems to be invulnerable to such scrutiny the last months. Those initial lines with no information make the overview/excerpt system pointless.
Personally, however, I do not see the point of removing final thanks. Maybe some international (to me) element finds it clutter through inherent societal apathy. Whatever it be, someone decided to make it a rule (officially), for some reason, that such ends also do not belong.
