A conductor who understands how annoying strings can be?
? I don't believe you
If he has persuaded them to stop that, has he had any success in stopping the incredibly pretentious looking wafting of the bow that string players seem to think counts as applauding, when a conductor or soloist comes on?
I have seen this from both the audience side and the playing side and I still think it looks pretentious not to mention quite stupid, if you don't know that this is what string players do. It surely isn't impossible for them to put one hand against another in rapid repetition?