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Should thank counts be temporary and more severe?

PostPosted: Saturday, 21st December 2013, 11:16
by TehDruid
Worth it.

Re: Should thank counts be temporary and more severe?

PostPosted: Saturday, 21st December 2013, 18:20
by moocowmoocow
No, thank counts definitely don't need a nerf, as forum posting difficulty has significantly increased lately. They could use irrelevant features though. I propose more colors in thank message. Giving thanks should alter your password, turning the post you thanked into cipher key to guess your new PW. All users should be secretly assigned friend/enemy lists which they cannot access, and get achievements/punishments for thanking right or wrong. Finally, I think CYC board should have minimum thanks given count to access, to weed out posts that are not up to quality.

Re: Should thank counts be temporary and more severe?

PostPosted: Saturday, 21st December 2013, 20:10
by Grimm
We can change the board settings to allow retraction of thanks but that's really all. I'd like to make thanks transferable, enabling thanks to be traded among members. This would cause them to become a sort of prison currency, like cigarettes.

Re: Should thank counts be temporary and more severe?

PostPosted: Saturday, 21st December 2013, 20:14
by 1010011010
1010011010 wrote:I got some really good advice, but its gonna cost you a couple of thanks

Re: Should thank counts be temporary and more severe?

PostPosted: Saturday, 21st December 2013, 20:33
by Hirsch I
here, I pay one, no more.

Re: Should thank counts be temporary and more severe?

PostPosted: Sunday, 22nd December 2013, 15:06
by Baldu3
A healthy thank economy is an essential component of a happy society. I approve as long as a functional mechanism is put in place to insure upwards mobility of your thanks towards my pockets.

Re: Should thank counts be temporary and more severe?

PostPosted: Sunday, 22nd December 2013, 18:50
by Siegurt
I am clearly a thanks-hoarder, my lack of investment back into the pool is obviously what keeps the thanks-economy stagnant :)

Re: Should thank counts be temporary and more severe?

PostPosted: Sunday, 22nd December 2013, 18:59
by Grimm
There are rumours of BitThanks being developed. That could change the game.

Re: Should thank counts be temporary and more severe?

PostPosted: Sunday, 22nd December 2013, 20:49
by MyOtheHedgeFox
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Re: Should thank counts be temporary and more severe?

PostPosted: Monday, 23rd December 2013, 08:53
by Confidence Interval
In Weimar Crawl, people had to carry round billions of thanks in wheelbarrows. The same spectre looms large over us now.

Re: Should thank counts be temporary and more severe?

PostPosted: Monday, 23rd December 2013, 09:03
by Grimm
Similar conditions obtained some years ago in Dungeon Crawl: Zimbabwe Żurek. They eventually abandoned the local thank and adopted the American thank.

Re: Should thank counts be temporary and more severe?

PostPosted: Monday, 23rd December 2013, 09:23
by Confidence Interval
I thought Crawl exclusively used the Aussie thank?

Re: Should thank counts be temporary and more severe?

PostPosted: Monday, 23rd December 2013, 09:25
by Baldu3
An area of interest so far left unstudied is the control of the means of thank production. To the untrained eye it may appear as if all are free to create their own thanks and market them for their proper value, but imagine if I somehow acquired very many thanks, and traded them for a place as admin. Perhaps those who would refuse to adhere to my rightful periodic thank tribute rule would find their ability to thank stiffened?

I suddenly find myself more and less interested in this subject at the same time.

Re: Should thank counts be temporary and more severe?

PostPosted: Monday, 23rd December 2013, 09:34
by Grimm
Confidence Interval wrote:I thought Crawl exclusively used the Aussie thank?

DC:SS does. It's on a fixed exchange rate with the Angband danke.

Re: Should thank counts be temporary and more severe?

PostPosted: Monday, 23rd December 2013, 09:50
by Confidence Interval
I think we need a "thanks a fucking lot" button, too.

Re: Should thank counts be temporary and more severe?

PostPosted: Monday, 23rd December 2013, 09:58
by Grimm
lol

Re: Should thank counts be temporary and more severe?

PostPosted: Monday, 23rd December 2013, 10:02
by Confidence Interval
If that's not possible then one could thank and then hit the "mockingly retract thanks" button.

Re: Should thank counts be temporary and more severe?

PostPosted: Monday, 23rd December 2013, 10:05
by Grimm

Re: Should thank counts be temporary and more severe?

PostPosted: Monday, 23rd December 2013, 10:06
by Confidence Interval
I was thinking of it more as a form of humiliating insult.

Re: Should thank counts be temporary and more severe?

PostPosted: Monday, 23rd December 2013, 11:51
by MyOtheHedgeFox
In Soviet Russia, you do not need to care about the production of thanks. =)

Re: Should thank counts be temporary and more severe?

PostPosted: Monday, 23rd December 2013, 11:59
by Confidence Interval
MyOtheHedgeFox wrote:In Soviet Russia, you do not need to care about the production of thanks. =)

Because of state control of the means of production of thanks, you mean?

Re: Should thank counts be temporary and more severe?

PostPosted: Monday, 23rd December 2013, 12:39
by MyOtheHedgeFox
Look at my count. Do you think there is any kind of thank control?!

Re: Should thank counts be temporary and more severe?

PostPosted: Monday, 23rd December 2013, 15:46
by Grimm
I would have guessed that it was rather a case of enormous quotas, with MOHF a Stakhanovite among thankers.

Alternatively, the Soviet thank might be one of the better examples of its kind, and be being produced in great numbers in order to bury its opponents. In this view MOHF is overseeing the production of T-34 medium battle thanks.

Re: Should thank counts be temporary and more severe?

PostPosted: Monday, 23rd December 2013, 16:04
by Confidence Interval
Grimm wrote:I would have guessed that it was rather a case of enormous quotas, with MOHF a Stakhanovite among thankers.

Alternatively, the Soviet thank might be one of the better examples of its kind, and be being produced in great numbers in order to bury its opponents. In this view MOHF is overseeing the production of T-34 medium battle thanks.

I think of MyO as the John Henry of the thanking world, fighting against the machine til he dies, a thanks upon his lips.

Re: Should thank counts be temporary and more severe?

PostPosted: Monday, 23rd December 2013, 16:14
by Grimm
He's a little pale for that role.

Re: Should thank counts be temporary and more severe?

PostPosted: Monday, 23rd December 2013, 16:27
by Confidence Interval
Having only heard the song I didn't know that John Henry was thought of as a black man (til I googled it just now).

Re: Should thank counts be temporary and more severe?

PostPosted: Monday, 23rd December 2013, 16:34
by Grimm
It's like a basic American thing, him and Paul Bunyan.

Re: Should thank counts be temporary and more severe?

PostPosted: Monday, 23rd December 2013, 16:44
by Confidence Interval
What I get for not being a basic American. But Bunyan is white, right (or at least looks that way on google images)?

Re: Should thank counts be temporary and more severe?

PostPosted: Monday, 23rd December 2013, 16:50
by Grimm
Yes he's white, I meant that Bunyan and Henry are or were when I was small kind of the two main folk heroes you learn about in school. Just basic knowledge like the Stone of Scone is for you.

Back on topic, I just heard about the success of Dogecoins, so this talk of a thanks currency might turn out not to be so crazy after all.

Re: Should thank counts be temporary and more severe?

PostPosted: Monday, 23rd December 2013, 18:45
by Confidence Interval
Grimm wrote:Dogecoins

A currency based on the Venetian magistracy? Awesome!

Re: Should thank counts be temporary and more severe?

PostPosted: Monday, 23rd December 2013, 18:49
by Grimm
I know right? Like cyberducats.

Re: Should thank counts be temporary and more severe?

PostPosted: Tuesday, 24th December 2013, 09:40
by Confidence Interval
I think cybersestertii would be even better.

Re: Should thank counts be temporary and more severe?

PostPosted: Tuesday, 24th December 2013, 11:39
by Grimm
E-Denarii

Re: Should thank counts be temporary and more severe?

PostPosted: Tuesday, 24th December 2013, 11:59
by Confidence Interval
Render unto Zot that which is Zot's

Re: Should thank counts be temporary and more severe?

PostPosted: Tuesday, 24th December 2013, 12:09
by cerebovssquire
Thanks non olet

Re: Should thank counts be temporary and more severe?

PostPosted: Tuesday, 24th December 2013, 12:29
by Confidence Interval
cerebovssquire wrote:Thanks non olet

That they may sometimes stink seems to have been reflected in the foregoing discussion.

Re: Should thank counts be temporary and more severe?

PostPosted: Wednesday, 25th December 2013, 02:16
by Baldu3
Meeerrryyyyyy thanksmas motherthankers!!!!

Re: Should thank counts be temporary and more severe?

PostPosted: Wednesday, 25th December 2013, 11:15
by MyOtheHedgeFox
Come at me you matureposter! (flexes his sword) I'm gonna thank up your text like there's no database limit!!!