I miss thanks because I used it as a way to keep track of posts I liked (sometimes with links/pics/videos that I wanted to look at again later- now I can't do this).
Any tips how to work-around? Or are we getting thanks stats back??
when we finally do get Thanks stats back it's gonna take us all at least a couple of days to catch up on checking how awesome we are. even if the search function is optimized we'll still probably break it by sheer volume of usage.
I think people forget what some posts were like prior to "thanks". You'd have half a dozen "I agree" or "good post" etc etc. Thanks just made it easier and cut down on those types of posts.
Hell now what's really annoying is when someone runs out of thanks, which I've been guilty of too, is quoting the post and simple saying "Out of thanks!" to acknowledge a good post. The thanks button eliminates half a page of useless posts.
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I think people forget what some posts were like prior to "thanks". You'd have half a dozen "I agree" or "good post" etc etc. Thanks just made it easier and cut down on those types of posts.
Hell now what's really annoying is when someone runs out of thanks, which I've been guilty of too, is quoting the post and simple saying "Out of thanks!" to acknowledge a good post. The thanks button eliminates half a page of useless posts.
Agreed.
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I think people forget what some posts were like prior to "thanks". You'd have half a dozen "I agree" or "good post" etc etc. Thanks just made it easier and cut down on those types of posts.
Hell now what's really annoying is when someone runs out of thanks, which I've been guilty of too, is quoting the post and simple saying "Out of thanks!" to acknowledge a good post. The thanks button eliminates half a page of useless posts.
That's a good point and a lot of how I use 'thanks'.
However, I think it's more participatory to maybe try to come up with something that is more than "yes I agree", to grow the discussion rather than stating your allegiance.
I think people forget what some posts were like prior to "thanks". You'd have half a dozen "I agree" or "good post" etc etc. Thanks just made it easier and cut down on those types of posts.
Hell now what's really annoying is when someone runs out of thanks, which I've been guilty of too, is quoting the post and simple saying "Out of thanks!" to acknowledge a good post. The thanks button eliminates half a page of useless posts.
I am all for getting rid of thanks altogether. Since thanks was introduced everyone just tries to be a comedian and PGTs are essentially unreadable because there is no discussion, people only post animated GIFs.
There were too many "I agree" type posts, but there are still too many posts where people post things just to post. Go into any recent signing thread and you will have to scroll through a couple pages of people posting "Great signing" "Wow good signing" etc.
CP needs to do the anti-twitter and impose a minimum character count.
