I propose “asdasdasdasdas” as the default reason if you do not type or select anything.
Fair enough. We’ve got a request in to move this to the enterprise side of the product 
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I would be happy to provide a reason for shutdown only if its a manual click on the UI button that triggers the prompt for the reason.
My home backup TrueNAS Scale server is scheduled to turn on once a week to pull the snapshots from my main TrueNAS Core server.
The TrueNAS Scale server has a script in a cron job to shut it down when its finished doing the replications.
So as long as I can do that in the CE edition still, I’m not fussed providing a reason to shutdown when doing it manually.
I like the idea of audit logging even on my home equipment…
I’m getting old and I’m over worked with family and work, its good to have the machines remember the reason why I did something, especially when I do it late at night and am not 100% awake 
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I’d also like to put my vote in for being able to turn off the reason for shutdown. It’s annoying as a home user and hobbyist who tends to do testing requiring frequent shutdowns and restarts.
That’s the single leading by far reason why I would want to throw a Windows box out of the window. There’s nothing more annoying in Windows anywhere.
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Not a heavy Windows user I take it?
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Something something ten foot pole … 
I usually just end up choosing some random reason at this point which is even less helpful for developers info.
It isn’t intended for developers’ info, as noted up-thread–the info isn’t sent to iX. It’s for your info. Agree you should have the option to disable it, but if you’re shutting down your system often enough for this to really be an issue, you’re frankly doing it wrong.
I was doing some things here and there where I was shutting it down more frequently. So not doing it wrong. But generally I don’t touch it.
IMHO, the scenario of a “cold backup system” that boots up only to receive replication and shuts down when it’s done is not “doing it wrong”.
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