Thanks Button Gone [Merged]

rdwarr

Exactly! Thanks, if there at all, should be for the benefit of the giver to save wasting a post saying "Thank you". Your point implied that you were "pi**ed" that you missed out on a few as a recipient.

black-saturn

I for one are missing the thanks button. I used to enjoy thanking people for giving me advice and I used to enjoy giving advice and being thanked. On some posts I spend a lot of time finding the answers for people and one of the things I looked forward to was coming home and seeing that I had been thanked. It made me feel more worthwhile. Please tell me its coming back?

nelly_2

As if youd be arsed if you had more thanks then someone else.

I like getting thanked for my stupid comments and jokes, at least then I can see they are apreciated but I couldnt care less if someone gets more or less than me.

and in the spirit of lazyness its so much easier clicking a mouse than typing a message that amounts to the same thing.

purplegirluk1

I miss it, its a quick way to see who found yr message helpful or nice, its also a good way of letting someone know u read their post without having to type, very good for those of us that are not always up to typeing.

Come back 'ickle button

f3lix

Seems like MSE is not alone

http://www.iphone-forum.org/showthread.php?p=824033

trafalgar_2

This means that the following questions will not be tolerated:



WHY WAS THANK U BUTTON REMOVED
WHERE IS THANK U BUTTON
WHEN WILL THE THANK U BUTTON BE BACK


that has a familiar ring :rotfl:

f3lix

trafalgar wrote:

This means that the following questions will not be tolerated:



WHY WAS THANK U BUTTON REMOVED
WHERE IS THANK U BUTTON
WHEN WILL THE THANK U BUTTON BE BACK


that has a familiar ring :rotfl:

to that then

melodytoon

Quasar wrote:

I prefer it like this. I have said elsewhere that the thanks button is more trouble than it's worth. No more whinging about people getting thanked for "non money saving" posts.

Same here. I've posted thanks or sent a PM for a post, only to have people contact me & ask me to click the 'thanks' counter as well! Some have been OK about it, but some have made me feel like I'm being bullied into doing it. :sad: It's supposed to be up to you whether you use it or not, so as long as I say thanks somewhere, does it really matter that much whether I use the counter or not?

sassybird

If there is no thanks button, I'll only end up typing a thank you message anyway - therefore the threads will end up twice as long as it would have been and VERY monotinous to read through!

One of the basic rules is to have some manners - who cares about the thanks count? - I'm more concerned on thanking someone for the time-out they've taken to give my questions some thought and actually replying with info.

Keep the thanks button, but cut out the thanks count - that way everybody's happy.;)

mich_city

Have already expressed my views on the 'thanks button' - the main reason I don't like it is posters that 'demand' to be thanked and make people feel bad for not doing so...

I posted an offer on the grabbit thread and someone later mentioned a money off code that was on the codes and vouchers thread to get it even cheaper...

The poster of this code (who took it from another forum) had a tantrum in a number of posts as they didn't receive as many 'thanks' as I had for the offer I posted.. they then deleted the code and at one stage even went on to declare "if people cant say thanks for that then their just a load of greedy vultures"

A tad extreme I thought.. It wouldn't have bothered me if no one pressed 'thanks'.. I didn't post it for that.. Its not the end of the world if someone forgets to say 'thanks' for something really is it?

Finally.. the suggestion that a poster with a high 'thanks' tally respects more "weight" for their views is just plain ridiculous IMO

as sassybird mentions above...

Keep the thanks button, but cut out the thanks count - that way everybody's happy.