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It's a personal choice.
I lift weights practically silently, except maybe when attempting a max effort when I will occassionally WOOOO in triumph after hitting it. I make no noises when lifting, and I put away the bar as gently and quietly as possible, as though it were made of porcelain.
Mrs. FiveHour, by contrast, lifts half as much weight as though she's trying to make as much noise as possible. When she took up lifting, I finally bought decent squat stands, because the rickety old ones I had been using for ten years weren't equal to her abuse.
On the other hand, when I was in grad school, I got lectured by the woman running the girl's lifting club in the school gym about dropping the bar. She said the noise intimidated the girls. I pointed out that the bumper plates were meant to be dropped from overhead, and that I only dropped the bar when doing so was the safest way to get out of the position, or occasionally on warm ups to a max to get in the groove, and that noise was part of the gym experience and that I didn't criticize them for any noises they were making.
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