Abuse of the "Thanks System"

[ekool31 2]

The Thanks System was requested by users and we installed it. Since then, a few people who seem to believe that simply because they don't like a feature (or that the feature is susceptible to abuse) it should not be allowed.

I disagree. Almost every feature on this site can be abused by the wrong person, or someone with malicious intent. You can spam threads, posts, pictures, PM's, etc. Obviously most of the regulars here see that this is wrong and use the features and tools as they were intended. Those that do not usually find themselves banned.

Should the thanks system be any different? When used properly it is a valuable tool. You can search for posts by a certain user that other people have thanked him for... when this system is used properly those posts are generally going to be the ones with the most helpful information in them.

When abused, the system becomes worthless.

We are asking you to use the system as it is intended. If you don't like the system, don't use it... don't thank people for worthless posts. Don't thank people just to spam it up. You are ruining a feature for eveyrone else on the site that does use it and enjoy it.

In the future, when we see rampant "thanks" being distributed or requested, we will nuke all the thanks that you have. There is no reason to try and bring down this feature simply because you personally don't like it. Please consider other people's needs and wants and don't put yourself before them. Respect the site and the goals we have here to build a friendly and helpful place... we'll all be better off for it.

 

[Josh66]

You can search for posts by a certain user that other people have thanked him for...

How?

I see the new "Find All Thanked Posts" option in the search menu, but that gives you ALL thanked posts. How do you narrow that down to only those made by one member?


EDIT
I see that you can look it up in the member's profile... Is there a way to do it from the search menu?

 

[ekool31 2]

You can search for posts by a certain user that other people have thanked him for...

How?

I see the new "Find All Thanked Posts" option in the search menu, but that gives you ALL thanked posts. How do you narrow that down to only those made by one member?

The helpful part is to find all the posts by a person that other users have thanked them for. For example, I've been thanked twice... if I happen to make a helpful post to another user, they may say... "Hrmmmm this guy has great info, I wonder what other posts he's made that other people found really helpful" and they can search for that. It beats searching all my posts... some might be off-topic, or not so great... so hopefully the "Find all thanked posts by ekool" narrows down that search for them and speeds up finding whatever they are looking for.

 

[ekool31 2]

EDIT
I see that you can look it up in the member's profile... Is there a way to do it from the search menu?

There is, click on Search and "Find all Thanked Posts"

The Photo Forum - Photography Discussion Forum - Search Results

Once certain people quit throwing them around like candy, that will be a much more useful tool.

 

[Josh66]

EDIT
I see that you can look it up in the member's profile... Is there a way to do it from the search menu?

There is, click on Search and "Find all Thanked Posts"

The Photo Forum - Photography Discussion Forum - Search Results

Once certain people quit throwing them around like candy, that will be a much more useful tool.

Yes, but that gives you ALL of the thanked posts - 234 of them as I type this, I'm sure that number will climb very quickly. Once you get those results, is there a way to narrow it down further?

It doesn't look like there is..., but it would be nice.

 

[ekool31 2]

EDIT
I see that you can look it up in the member's profile... Is there a way to do it from the search menu?

There is, click on Search and "Find all Thanked Posts"

The Photo Forum - Photography Discussion Forum - Search Results

Once certain people quit throwing them around like candy, that will be a much more useful tool.

Yes, but that gives you ALL of the thanked posts - 234 of them as I type this, I'm sure that number will climb very quickly. Once you get those results, is there a way to narrow it down further?

It doesn't look like there is..., but it would be nice.

Nope, just the user profile page and that search link.

 

[Dmitri]

Where did all my thanks go? I was closing in on 100, and now I feel like the ugly girl at the ball...

 

[abraxas]

Thats terrible who will dance with you now?

I still won't.

 

[Dmitri]

lol you typed that before I took it back

lol you still got one last thank you in

I only have three now. That's only one more than ekool... how embarrassing

 

[ekool31 2]

lol you typed that before I took it back

lol you still got one last thank you in

I only have three now. That's only one more than ekool... how embarrassing

Quality > Quantity

 

[Dmitri]

lol you typed that before I took it back

lol you still got one last thank you in

I only have three now. That's only one more than ekool... how embarrassing

Quality > Quantity

If by "quality" you mean the ability to take away others thanks :er:

 

[Dmitri]

I used to just go right down the page and thank everyone equally because I didn't want them to feel left out.

it was sad when some people had only one or two thanks and others had like eighty.

I hear ya. Its like "Be polite and thankful, but not TOO polite and TOO thankful". Our overlord has decreed just how thankful we can be in a day.

 

[Josh220]

I had one but someone took it away.

 

[Dagwood56]

I jumped on board the thanks band wagon as a way to rebel because I am greatly opposed to "labeling" and I feel that is what the thanks system is\or will end up doing. New members will see a high thank you count below a members name and assume that it means the person must know more than someone else and soon members with low thank you counts will fall even farther behind thus causing a type of uneeded social competition.

 

[NateS]

I'm sorry, but I had to post this....I can't help but laugh at the fact that abraxas thanked the original post in this thread. Oh the sweet irony.