How does a poster get thanked so much?

isofa

gooner045 wrote: »

Its like a little gang thing mate, then you find them thanking each other for thanking them in the first place !!

Thanks for thanking me have another thanks.

Then have a close look at their posts and its a load of old ****

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1999683 a good example of saying thanks for saying Hi !!!!!!, a lot of them put very little into the site in the way of help

Anyway thanks for asking that question OP

I think you may be right! That thread you mention is only a month old yet there are 3762 posts on it by this morning, and littered with people saying thanks for saying hi, they clearly have nothing better to do. Mind you without that distraction they'd be watching (or perhaps starring in) daytime tv...

A virtual pub, oh puuurlease...

jinky67

isofa wrote: »

I think you may be right! That thread you mention is only a month old yet there are 3762 posts on it by this morning, and littered with people saying thanks for saying hi, they clearly have nothing better to do. Mind you without that distraction they'd be watching (or perhaps starring in) daytime tv...

A virtual pub, oh puuurlease...

Having posted in that thread and other threads of this type, most of us use the thanks button as a way of finding where our last read point was NOT to suck up people's !!!!!!:rolleyes:
Because in actual fact most normal people couldn't care less about their post count or thanks count:cool:

aliEnRIK

spakkker wrote: »

I just read this thread and noticed that the poster had been thanked over 30 times for each post.
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=2036087
I am curious how this is possible, as looking at a few prev. posts doesn't bear this out. I suspect a site glitch.

That particular poster posts on the techie forum with 'updates' of programs purely to get extra thanks (All he gets off me is a click on the SPAM button)

DatabaseError

Before I start - please DON'T click the thanks button, as I'm not touting for any!

The way I see it the button should be used if someone helped 'you', not if they said something funny, or if they hit the thanks button 1st, or if you're 'mates'.
The button should be a way of gauging if the advice offered by the member has any merit, sadly that's not what it does..Just looking at the 1st post in this thread, 4 lots of thanks for asking a question, it just further devalues the stat

isofa

jinky67 wrote: »

Having posted in that thread and other threads of this type, most of us use the thanks button as a way of finding where our last read point was NOT to suck up people's !!!!!!:rolleyes:
Because in actual fact most normal people couldn't care less about their post count or thanks count:cool:

Well that suggests you aren't using it in the spirit it was design by the people that wrote the vBulletin software... Perhaps if you understood the search tools and how they worked, you'd not click "thanks" to find where your last read point was . However as you are posting on average 810 posts a month (27 per day), I guess you have a lot to read...

I agree with aliEnRIK and DatabaseError, the idea of thanks is to thank someone for some helpful advice or tips they've given to solving a problem or, given the forum title, saving money. I'm glad there are some sensible people around here.

Looking at the dross on many of these forums (as with most internet forums) it suggests people really do have too much time on their hands

There are three types of poster on MSE: those who ask questions, those who give helpful replies and/or discuss them, and those who post everything else that doesn't match those two categories... (As per gooner045's example and a quick advance search brought up similar: http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=2049259)

Personally I don't care about the thanks count, but on forums where knowledge is important, such as tech, investments and so forth, it goes go some way to show the good posters against the newbies and/or those who don't post good advice.

aliEnRIK

isofa wrote: »

There are three types of poster on MSE: those who ask questions, those who give helpful replies and/or discuss them, and those who post everything else that doesn't match those two categories

haha

Spot on that mate

AirCooledHeaven

gooner045 wrote: »

Its like a little gang thing mate, then you find them thanking each other for thanking them in the first place !!

Thanks for thanking me have another thanks.

Then have a close look at their posts and its a load of old ****

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1999683 a good example of saying thanks for saying Hi !!!!!!, a lot of them put very little into the site in the way of help

Anyway thanks for asking that question OP

Thanks! Just wanted to let you know i've thanked you for your 'thanks' post. Thanks.

AirCooledHeaven

willa wrote: »

You are so right Gooner. Have a look over on the benefits and tax credits boards!
There is a right gang there who thank each other for EVERYTHING each other says, one of them has been promoted to board guide now possibly because she is so 'respected' (by the gang) and has so many thanks votes!
The thing about this gang is well is that they say really judgemental and abusive things to questioners sometimes and this is fine, but anybody who isn't in the gang will get jumped on for one slight wrong move! Bleurrgghh! They are sad pathetic little authoritarians who like brown-nosing and being in positions of 'power'. There's probably similar little bully gangs on other boards, just as there are in real life and sadly these people tend to weedle their way into positions of 'power'. I bet they are key jangling manager types in real life, who do sfa but pontificate about how much they do and how good they are.
I pointed their double standards out earlier today and my post was removed within minutes. Whoops think I may be on the board guide's 'naughty list'. Let's see how long this one stays on.
Cheers!
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DatabaseError

Times like this I wish I wielded the Ban 'ammer here as well as elsewhere...It would be swinging

jinky67

isofa wrote: »

Well that suggests you aren't using it in the spirit it was design by the people that wrote the vBulletin software... Perhaps if you understood the search tools and how they worked, you'd not click "thanks" to find where your last read point was . However as you are posting on average 810 posts a month (27 per day), I guess you have a lot to read...
thanks for that, but it really doesnt interest me


(As per gooner045's example and a quick advance search brought up similar: http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=2049259)
and another thread I go on where we all post for encouragement to get on with sorting ourselves out, you picking on me?:mad::p
Personally I don't care about the thanks count, but on forums where knowledge is important, such as tech, investments and so forth, it goes go some way to show the good posters against the newbies and/or those who don't post good advice.

Newbies can post good advice as well though, just because they dont have high thanks/post count doesnt mean they are any less knowledgable;). Having said that I have a fair idea of who I would trust with the kind of things you refer to