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Thanks Are Back

PostPosted: Sunday, 3rd April 2016, 05:58
by archaeo
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.

Re: Thanks Are Back

PostPosted: Sunday, 3rd April 2016, 09:19
by duvessa
but how will we live without thank counts below our avatars?

Re: Thanks Are Back

PostPosted: Sunday, 3rd April 2016, 15:40
by archaeo
It's in your user profile, if you just want to stare at those numbers and feel good about the quantification of how much people really like you duvessa

Re: Thanks Are Back

PostPosted: Sunday, 3rd April 2016, 18:14
by ZipZipskins
Thank goodness finally something to work towards again

PostPosted: Tuesday, 5th April 2016, 10:46
by Turukano
archaeo wrote: 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.

The last point is an important reason imo. Most people use thanks in good faith. I doubt you can educate people by changing forum features. And I'd like to comment on one thing you posted in Remove the thank feature :

archaeo wrote:As njvack said above, we're hoping that people can be reasonable about giving this change a try instead of requiring us to remove their protest posts, something that we will likely have to start doing if people persist.

This was an unfortunate post and I doubt you can make things better by threatening anybody.


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As you probably know I made a poll about the thank button removal some weeks ago. I was surprised how many people voted against it! In the meantime I think the removal was interesting because of two reasons:

  • the idea of making people talk to each other instead of hitting buttons
  • the idea of avoiding "thank hunting" - just writing whatever stuff to get thanks and brag with it
So it was maybe a good idea but... And the but is the point why I like to have thanks back, we had enough arguments for it.

Re: Thanks Are Back

PostPosted: Wednesday, 6th April 2016, 15:34
by ZipZipskins
It's not really a threat for moderators to say that they'll enforce new forum rules, even if they're experimental, so that's a pretty unfair characterization

and I was even one of those "protestors" although tepid is a pretty solid descriptor

Re: Thanks Are Back

PostPosted: Saturday, 16th December 2017, 02:43
by TotallynotGrimm
Thanks