Thanks Are Back
Posted: Sunday, 3rd April 2016, 05:58
I don't think Thanks-on-OP-only worked. It's possible that some of the benefits of Thanks removal would only reveal themselves after everyone got tired of meme'ing about it, but a) I don't think it encouraged people to chime in with more constructive posts and b) I don't think it really cut back on anything we'd like to see less of. It just seems to annoy a lot of people who were using it in good faith.
There are interesting arguments on both sides of the fence w/r/t Thanks, and it's possible we'll give this experiment another go with full Thanks removal in the future. But I can't see any particularly compelling reason to keep this current system up, as it's trivially bypassed and has become a distraction in and of itself. Thanks for being patient while we tried it out, and let me know if I'm missing some crucial evidence of Thanksless Tavern being a better place.
There are interesting arguments on both sides of the fence w/r/t Thanks, and it's possible we'll give this experiment another go with full Thanks removal in the future. But I can't see any particularly compelling reason to keep this current system up, as it's trivially bypassed and has become a distraction in and of itself. Thanks for being patient while we tried it out, and let me know if I'm missing some crucial evidence of Thanksless Tavern being a better place.