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Thanks! 'Thank you hack' (merged)

Rex_Mundi Posts: 6,312 Forumite

22 March 2005 at 11:34AM in Site feedback and Forum Help

Is there any way of stopping posts that are just 'thank you'?

I've just counted 16 posts in a row from one member in the freebies board. The majority of these were just a thank you and no real contribution to the subject. This is very annoying and has had the effect of taking over more than half the front page of this board with posts that the one member found useful.

We should remember, what is useful for one of us, may not be so useful for others.

Posting like this relegates other posts way down the board. It could cause people to miss an offer that they might otherwise have seen.

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coda Posts: 158 Forumite

22 March 2005 at 1:05PM

there is a VBB hack to manage thanks' posts that i am looking into installing, should be up and running today or tomorrow at most (providing we can find our official VBB username and password for the forums or we can't download it )

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Fran Posts: 11,280 Forumite

22 March 2005 at 1:09PM

How would that work then?

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sra Posts: 4,676 Forumite

22 March 2005 at 1:14PM

Fran wrote:

How would that work then?

look here

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Edinburghlass_2 Posts: 32,680 Forumite

22 March 2005 at 1:26PM

I looked at Sra's link the last time this was brought up and think its a great idea :T

So Thanks, MSE Dimitar

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queensway_boy Posts: 5,990 Forumite

22 March 2005 at 1:29PM

sra555 wrote:

look here

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so will we still be able to say thankyou as we are encouraged to if someone's helped us.

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Glad Posts: 18,954 Senior Ambassador

22 March 2005 at 1:39PM

you will click on a button to say thanks and all those thanks will be put together in one box

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vanoonoo Posts: 1,897 Forumite

22 March 2005 at 1:41PM

great idea - sooner implemented the better imho

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JasonW_2 Posts: 705 Forumite

22 March 2005 at 1:43PM

Thank you

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divadee Posts: 10,609 Forumite

22 March 2005 at 1:44PM

i like this idea. i didnt like the idea of not being able to say thanks but this solves all those problems.

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queensway_boy Posts: 5,990 Forumite

22 March 2005 at 1:45PM

glad wrote:

you will click on a button to say thanks and all those thanks will be put together in one box

Thankyou :T

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