They should be called blowjobs.
"The following users give this poster a blowjob:
Jeff Hunter, Zok, Al Gore"
Thanks is just harmless fun. It's not like a system with downvoting where you're given more ways to express your hurt feelings and bad attitude.
I think we should call them hugs here.
The following users send e-hugs for this post! So warm and fuzzy! <33
lol, gay.
Thanks were a failed representation of poster value. Vizier had the most thanks I believe, and he was complete garbage. If you want thanks, go to facebook you fucking faggot - there 's plenty of opportunities to feed off of outside approval there.
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lol, gay.
Oh, I thought I crushed you earlier. Guess not - you 're on my shit list now, bitch .
Thanks were a failed representation of poster value. Vizier had the most thanks I believe, and he was complete garbage. If you want thanks, go to facebook you fucking faggot - there 's plenty of opportunities to feed off of outside approval there.
Please read the question dealing with a Thanks/Rep system first if you haven't already here: http://www.intosanctuary.com/index.php?topic=5
I guess I'll put it in if people really want it but I really don't approve of such.
I really hope you stick to your guns here. Thanks and ratings and down/upvoting is just noise we don't need. Though IMO, so are avatars and signatures. Hopefully I can turn them off.
A hug system isn't a bad idea...
Its a stupid idea...period. 'thanks' are for ghetto amateur sites where posters with low self esteem get their jollies by othe posters with low self esteem.
Not one professional site that im on or know about has a 'thanks' setup
If u fucks need validation so badly send a pm and include as much detail on how you appreciate whatever post it was you're so excited about. Even better...meet them somewhere and give them a nice warm blow job
Its a stupid idea...period. 'thanks' are for ghetto amateur sites where posters with low self esteem get their jollies by othe posters with low self esteem.
Not one professional site that im on or know about has a 'thanks' setup
If u fucks need validation so badly send a pm and include as much detail on how you appreciate whatever post it was you're so excited about. Even better...meet them somewhere and give them a nice warm blow job
If you really want to truly understand the folly of a "Thanks" system, just read The Sneeches, or even Bartholomew Cubbins and the Oobleck, for that matter.
"The Sneetches"
"...a group of yellow creatures called Sneetches, some of whom have a green star on their bellies. At the beginning of the story, Sneetches with stars discriminate against and shun those without. A mischievously scheming "fix-it-up chappie" named Sylvester McMonkey McBean appears offers the Sneetches without stars the chance to have them with his Star-On machine, for three dollars. The treatment is instantly popular, but this upsets the original star-bellied Sneetches, as they are in danger of losing their special status. Mr. McBean then tells them about his Star-Off machine, costing ten dollars, and the Sneetches who originally had stars happily pay the money to have them removed in order to remain special. However, McBean does not share the prejudices of the Sneetches, and allows the recently starred Sneetches through this machine as well. Ultimately this escalates, with the Sneetches running from one of the two machines to the other and back again...
"...changing their stars, every minute or two.
They kept paying money; they kept running through,
until neither the Plain nor the Star-Bellies knew
whether this one was that one... or that one was this one...
or which one was what one... or what one was who."
This continues until the Sneetches are penniless and Mr. McBean departs as a rich man, amused by their folly. Despite his assertion that "you can't teach a Sneetch", the Sneetches learn from this experience that neither plain-belly nor star-belly Sneetches are superior, and they are able to get along and become friends.
"The Sneetches" was intended by Seuss as a satire of discrimination between races and cultures, and was specifically inspired by his opposition to antisemitism."
Q: Can we have a Thanks/Reputation system here?
A: I have seen a whole lot of rep systems in my time on the 'netz and all of them have been retarded. A normal rep system where it keeps a total of all the rep you earned leads to reputation spam. A thanks system where it only keeps track of the thanks given to each post is hardly better.
What it leads to is friends upvoting each other just because they're friends, funny posts getting thanked instead of the more smart and thoughtful posts, posts getting upvoted because it tells people what they want to hear instead of what they should be hearing, and posts deserving of upvotes not getting them simply because they're on the last page of posts and some users TL;DRing all posts past the first or second pages. Not to mention the small amounts of drama it causes when someone gets a lot of or all the upvotes and another doesn't, no matter how intelligent or well they conduct themselves simply because of something that happened in the past and people are holding a grudge...
Haven't received a rebuttal to this yet I think:Quote from: Site FAQ v2.0Q: Can we have a Thanks/Reputation system here?
A: I have seen a whole lot of rep systems in my time on the 'netz and all of them have been retarded. A normal rep system where it keeps a total of all the rep you earned leads to reputation spam. A thanks system where it only keeps track of the thanks given to each post is hardly better.
What it leads to is friends upvoting each other just because they're friends, funny posts getting thanked instead of the more smart and thoughtful posts, posts getting upvoted because it tells people what they want to hear instead of what they should be hearing, and posts deserving of upvotes not getting them simply because they're on the last page of posts and some users TL;DRing all posts past the first or second pages. Not to mention the small amounts of drama it causes when someone gets a lot of or all the upvotes and another doesn't, no matter how intelligent or well they conduct themselves simply because of something that happened in the past and people are holding a grudge...
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Please read the question dealing with a Thanks/Rep system first if you haven't already here: http://www.intosanctuary.com/index.php?topic=5
I guess I'll put it in if people really want it but I really don't approve of such.
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gross.
If I were you Arnox I'd run half-assed "social experiments" with us as your guinea pigs. Introduce a rep system where the top like 3 posters are given special colored names and fancy user titles, and the bottom 60% has to use captchas each time they post. Only for like a week or two, just to see how that would play out.
Make cursing against the rules.
No rules Tuesdays.
Man I'm full of good ideas.
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gross.
If I were you Arnox I'd run half-assed "social experiments" with us as your guinea pigs. Introduce a rep system where the top like 3 posters are given special colored names and fancy user titles, and the bottom 60% has to use captchas each time they post. Only for like a week or two, just to see how that would play out.
Make cursing against the rules.
No rules Tuesdays.
Man I'm full of good ideas.
This actually sounds like an interesting idea.
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gross.
If I were you Arnox I'd run half-assed "social experiments" with us as your guinea pigs. Introduce a rep system where the top like 3 posters are given special colored names and fancy user titles, and the bottom 60% has to use captchas each time they post. Only for like a week or two, just to see how that would play out.
Make cursing against the rules.
No rules Tuesdays.
Man I'm full of good ideas.
This actually sounds like an interesting idea.
This actually sounds like an interesting idea.
If you like that, then how about once a month we give a random user admin rights and let them go to town on the forum for five minutes? Ban users, change forum names, close registrations, etc. And whatever changes that user does in those five minutes will stay implemented for a week.
This actually sounds like an interesting idea.
If you like that, then how about once a month we give a random user admin rights and let them go to town on the forum for five minutes? Ban users, change forum names, close registrations, etc. And whatever changes that user does in those five minutes will stay implemented for a week.
That's a great retarded idea!
This actually sounds like an interesting idea.
If you like that, then how about once a month we give a random user admin rights and let them go to town on the forum for five minutes? Ban users, change forum names, close registrations, etc. And whatever changes that user does in those five minutes will stay implemented for a week.
That's a great retarded idea!
Here is an idea. Since you know so much about running a community and since you are a l337 haxor way don't you start a community and show everyone how right you are instead of rage typing about it for years on end?
Everybody is full of so many interesting ideas.
This actually sounds like an interesting idea.
If you like that, then how about once a month we give a random user admin rights and let them go to town on the forum for five minutes? Ban users, change forum names, close registrations, etc. And whatever changes that user does in those five minutes will stay implemented for a week.
That's a great retarded idea!
Here is an idea. Since you know so much about running a community and since you are a l337 haxor way don't you start a community and show everyone how right you are instead of rage typing about it for years on end?
Here's an idea. Why don't you go stick your ugly, empty head into an industrial meat grinder?
Why not use... blah, blah, blahhh.. duck & dive.. blah, blah, blahhh...
Why not use... blah, blah, blahhh.. duck & dive.. blah, blah, blahhh...
And like I said, why not use your ugly, empty head to stick into an industrial meat grinder?
Thanks is fun! And little else. Don't make it into a thing when it's really not.Ha, this, though.
I accept your surrender.SpoilerNow go make me a sandwich bitch!
lol why was that shitlord banned?
Thanks and rep are for insecure people whose life revolves around attention. Prime examples being eBagger and Zek, epitomes of desperation and sadness.
Want to make a forum better? Less is more. Color schemes, custom smilies, avatars, signatures, get rid of all of this and see your user base vastly improved. Not in quantity, very likely the opposite, but in quality. Add an ignore function, restrict access to specialized fora, and impose hell bans instead of full bans. Much more effective, and infinitely more hilarious.
If you want a place that attracts people with low attention spans and even lower intelligence, hand out more candy and toys. Make your place a bit more strict and mature and see content vastly improved.
I accept your surrender.SpoilerNow go make me a sandwich bitch!
Thanks for playing.
p.s
I'd just like to Thank this one post.
If we implement this thanks system, will we still be able to upgrade our forum software?
On Zoklet they never updated their vbulletin because they said it would fuck up all the modifications they did.