Thread:Talk:WikiLove/Proposal: Make the WikiLove tab visible only after a user has made 10 edits/reply

I don't think that adding this restriction would be of much value. I actually think it would operate antithetically to the entire philosophy behind the tool. Requiring "autoconfirmed" statues (which your suggestion effectively does) to anything is normally a bad idea if one is trying to increase the overall atmosphere of inclusion.

I agree that excessive boilerplating is bad practice. We know this to be true from various studies. However, we also know that early expressions of gratitude work well towards promoting new editor retention. This is not the same thing: a WikiLove message is, indeed, a template. However, these are nearly always personalized templates. And the research we have shows that the problem is not "templates" but rather "impersonal templates."