The Thanks Function

[RisiR]

Nope. I'm fine.

[mmmmmmmQuestions]

also going to pass on another crazymike cat story.

inb4 "it was going to be a cute and positive one this time"

[millionsofdeadcats]

inb4 "it was going to be a cute and positive one this time"

Heh no

[Arnox]

Just a reminder that if a Thanks system gets implemented, it will not count someone's total thanks at all. Thanks will be contained to threads.

[Ninja]

Just a reminder that if a Thanks system gets implemented, it will not count someone's total thanks at all. Thanks will be contained to threads.

But, I was trying to suck dicks so I could be the most Thanked guy on the forum.  How will I ever find stardom now?

[zok jr.]

thanks is the only reason i get up in the morning

[John Smith]

Arnox, just in case you do cave in to the slobber herd.....is there a way to opt out of the thanks feature? Meaning a user has a choice to disable having their posts thanked, kind of a way to separate the adults from the little children?

I like this idea, it would satisfy more people and have wider support.

and I'm pretty sure vizier had the highest (actual) count on the site.

And generally people didn't see him as a poster who generally contributed good detailed material, or particularly intellectual, anyone who had become a regular on the forum generally recognized him as a poster who was good at making apt puns/comments in threads, the voice of the common man, and having a high post count, which is where his rep came from. I don't think most people are dumb enough to look at thanks and assume that it means a poster must be good or intelligent, you develop your views by observing their writing over time.

Thanks are generally just for fun, to encourage to produce more material like this/of this quality, show agreement, thank for posting something that you enjoyed in some manner, and some other silly insignificant things. It really isn't particularly negative, it depends on the users, and those users will still be of the same quality with or without it. Think about it, anyone who changes their posting habits significantly due to thanks is bound to be a dumbass. Let them have it.

[Jedi Moped]

I don't really care much, I think doing without is a good way to encourage just good general conversation as opposed to just thanking the closest opinion you agree with then fucking off - something I regularly did back on &z.

I thing instead of a thanks system this board should have a sports car.

[Jedi Moped]

As I've said in other threads....all thanks does is encourage, attract and motivate the WRONG kind of poster. Do you want mindless button clickers that actually need some cheesy validation by strangers while chasing a meaningless statistic? Or do you want intelligent adults with great discussion and debate skills? This really isn't about what makes a handful of people good for a few seconds, instead the BIGGER PICTURE of the long term future of this website. Period.

Arnox, just in case you do cave in to the slobber herd.....is there a way to opt out of the thanks feature? Meaning a user has a choice to disable having their posts thanked, kind of a way to separate the adults from the little children?

Well you certainly are not a mindless button clicker but you are neither and adult or in possession of discussion/debate skills. And you certainly don't want to separate adults from children based on your self professed predilection for post pubescent females. So what is your position on the OP's topic exactly?

[Michael Myers]

No. We don't need one.

[SupremeGentleman]

I agree, its just a meaningless form of competition

[DaGuru]

I thing instead of a thanks system this board should have a sports car.

Well you certainly are not a mindless button clicker but you are neither and adult or in possession of discussion/debate skills. And you certainly don't want to separate adults from children based on your self professed predilection for post pubescent females. So what is your position on the OP's topic exactly?

Poor Rodent....the guy still can't contain his butthurt or emotional impulses and stay on topic. Instead just keep on spamming and fail-flaming his usual derailing bullshit, all the while people are trying to have productive discourse.

[Proots]

I voted "No" because truly, it isn't something we need.

Also, I find it interesting that the total amount of votes far eclipses the amount of consistent, regular posters we have on this site. If there's any way to tell who voted for what, Arnox - maybe you should look into it to make sure no dummy accounts artificially inflated the Yes/No votes.

[FON]

So a thanked shitpost doesn't encourage more shitposts because the person that thanked the shitpost was a shitposter?

No it doesn't it's the same thing as a shit poster posting rekt right afterward you guys are acting like a thank system brings in more shit posters but your only examples are of poor users already encouraging a base of more poor users being shit heads together. You're the one giving their thanked post any weight. 

you're also implying that someone can only agree or thank certain things that line up with your own view point it sounds to me like you want a site full of specialists not a site without a thank system make better threads and encourage better posters and guess what you'll have less shit posters.

Of course it does. The 'thanks' system rewards people for certain types of posting. There was a lot of shitposters on zoklet who encouraged each other with this sort of thing. The whole culture of the site was starting to form around shitposting.

And some people act like if we implement a thanks system the site will somehow miraculously improve, despite the fact that it encourages low quality posts.

No.  Where do you get this shit from?  People want it because they are used to it, it serves a purpose (i.e. if you want to reply in a thread, but someone already typed what you wanna say, you can still be involved with the thread, among other uses for 'thanks'), it's fun, and apparently it is pretty popular.  Who are these 'some people who act like if we implement thanks the site will improve miraculously?'  I wanna know.

Well, you - for one - apparently think it should be on the site. According to you it improves the site because it allows people to acknowledge a post without saying anything, because it's fun and because it's popular.

However, I think these are all shit reasons.

1. Who cares if you can't acknowledge a post? Are people really so starved of validation that this is necessary? Do others feel the need so bad to have their name seen on the page that this is necessary? Is it possible that by removing this aspect we might encourage people to put some thought in and make an actual response? Stop being a little bitch.

2. Fun? Are you some sort of fucking retard?

3. Shitposting was also popular on zoklet.

None of these pose even a significant improvement, other than avoiding a few faggots like you complaining in B&M about how you can't circle-jerk each other into homosexual oblivion anymore. We should try the forum without a system that didn't do much other than encourage shitposts and give me the occasional dopamine rush.

[Spectre]

So a thanked shitpost doesn't encourage more shitposts because the person that thanked the shitpost was a shitposter?

No it doesn't it's the same thing as a shit poster posting rekt right afterward you guys are acting like a thank system brings in more shit posters but your only examples are of poor users already encouraging a base of more poor users being shit heads together. You're the one giving their thanked post any weight. 

you're also implying that someone can only agree or thank certain things that line up with your own view point it sounds to me like you want a site full of specialists not a site without a thank system make better threads and encourage better posters and guess what you'll have less shit posters.

Of course it does. The 'thanks' system rewards people for certain types of posting. There was a lot of shitposters on zoklet who encouraged each other with this sort of thing. The whole culture of the site was starting to form around shitposting.

I really don't see how you're using this as an argument. If zoklet was filled with shit posters it was because zoklet was filled with shit posters, the thanks system worked fine the community thanked what they liked. What you're saying is that shit posters are surprise gonna be shit posters thanks aren't going to change that in anyway. Your argument against thanks is one that the site is full of shit posters and they'll use it to encourage each other (as if they need it) thanks aren't going to attract anyone and they aren't going to drive anyone away, they are a meaningless statistic that allows you to agree with someone without having to type out a bullshit I agree post and potentially clogging up a good thread. Get your head out of your ass if you want more people to post better shit than maybe you should start posting better shit and if no one acknowledges it then boo fucking hoo find a different site that fits your needs.

Arnox wants to run a site where people spew shit all the time a thanks system would make it where you don't have to go wading through it constantly to support the one post out of many you agree with