How long until we have thanks?

[eBagger]

Again implement a "thanks"

or rep system

or else 

[Bad Company]

A hug system isn't a bad idea...

[mmmmmmmQuestions]

A hug system isn't a bad idea...

hug unit goes hard 

[Molosh]

If there is thanks, it should just be a way to thank posts without the thanks being accumulated and turning into a e-dick contest, while still giving people a way to thank/approve without just making an otherwise empty post. that way people can get their shot of dopamine without people rep whoring

[Siu3d]

Screw thanks. I liked Reputation better.

[STD]

Thanks sucked and a lot of the worst zoklet posters had some of the highest thanks counts (I was in 2009.)

[joe camel]

Fuck thanks. Hopefully never.

[Infinityshock]

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

[DaGuru]

And the OP is a shining example of why the "thanks" system is a failure. Because the exact same kind of person that NEEDS a "thanks" button, is the type of person too stupid, selfish, and attention whoring to post this question on the already existing threads discussing this....instead just spam/flood the forums with more idiocy about discussion topics  that is already taking place elsewhere.

[-SpectraL]

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."

[Idiosyncrasy]

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 by professional, you mean a site done by people whose paid profession it is to create websites, then Facebook, the largest social networking site, has "likes," which essentially is the same as "thanks." If you meant a site for professionals, then LinkedIn has also incorporated "likes" and it is basically Facebook for professionals. If you meant well-established corporations who have professionals working for them, then a lot of major news organizations, such as CNN.com, utilize "up-votes" in their communities of commenters, which are like "likes," but the action also promotes the content to the top of the list.

I'm not saying I'm advocating either way at this time, but I'm just wondering what your point really is with that.

[eBagger]

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

u stupid

we demand thx or rep now 

[STD]

I guess a rep system is nice to know who to trust with your answers about stuff like research chemicals, but I also see the to letting each post stand for itself.

[equanimity]

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."

It never actually got bad at all.

"Psh that poster sucks, he doesn't have as many thanks as some other people!" -said no one ever.

Thanks is fun!  And little else.  Don't make it into a thing when it's really not.

[Arnox]

Haven't received a rebuttal to this yet I think:

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...