Thanks in AH

Hail 2 Da Chimp · 21-08-2009 9:49am

No

Dudess wrote: »

H2DC, the very same stuff was happening before the thanks system - when the reward was "+1", "LOL", "LMAO", "ROFL" and/or a row of ":D".

I know what AH was like before the thanks system was around but my point is, the thanks system hasn't improved AH and in my opinion has made the problem worse.
Do you remember what Feedback was like WITH the thanks system?
Some smart effective modding and no thanks system seems to have straightened it out!

ibarelycare wrote: »

Ah you gotta love the puns!

NO I DON'T!!! AAAHhhhhHHHhhhhh :pac:

stovelid · 21-08-2009 2:12pm

Hail 2 Da Chimp wrote: »

Do you remember what Feedback was like WITH the thanks system?
Some smart effective modding and no thanks system seems to have straightened it out!

Why blame the thanks on that?

I think it was far more to do with cracking down on the lol-cats and gang-ups?

The help-desk has also removed a lot of the contentious type of feedback threads.

Hail 2 Da Chimp · 21-08-2009 2:33pm

No

stovelid wrote: »

Why blame the thanks on that?

I think it was far more to do with cracking down on the lol-cats and gang-ups?

The help-desk has also removed a lot of the contentious type of feedback threads.

From that perspective I'd almost put the thanks on par with lol-cats.
As soon as a new thread starts, someone pipes in with a smart-arse answer just for the sake of getting thanks, there was a spate of these type of posts in feedback (even after the lol-cat clean up and extra moderation).

Basically, as long as the thanks system is in AH, people will always jump into new threads and try to get the first smart-arsed reply, which leaves the first page of a potentially good thread a total mess. I believe the thanks system encourages this type of posting / spamming.

stovelid · 21-08-2009 2:41pm

Hail 2 Da Chimp wrote: »

From that perspective I'd almost put the thanks on par with lol-cats.
As soon as a new thread starts, someone pipes in with a smart-arse answer just for the sake of getting thanks, there was a spate of these type of posts in feedback (even after the lol-cat clean up and extra moderation).

Basically, as long as the thanks system is in AH, people will always jump into new threads and try to get the first smart-arsed reply, which leaves the first page of a potentially good thread a total mess. I believe the thanks system encourages this type of posting / spamming.

For what it's worth, I like the no-thanks rule in Feedback.

I still don't really see the issue in AH.

For me, smart-arse replies, puns and levity have always been the hallmark of AH. I also don't think that kind of humour kills off discussion. There's plenty of examples of discussion surviving.

Nerin · 21-08-2009 2:43pm

Hail 2 Da Chimp wrote: »

From that perspective I'd almost put the thanks on par with lol-cats.
As soon as a new thread starts, someone pipes in with a smart-arse answer just for the sake of getting thanks, there was a spate of these type of posts in feedback (even after the lol-cat clean up and extra moderation).

Basically, as long as the thanks system is in AH, people will always jump into new threads and try to get the first smart-arsed reply, which leaves the first page of a potentially good thread a total mess. I believe the thanks system encourages this type of posting / spamming.

Hmmm,i kinda see why you think that,but then why doesn't it happen on every forum?
Ah is the more laidback place on boards. Feedback used to be more relaxed too.
Feedback got less relaxed,and thanks was still here,and it worked. Thanks only disappeared from feedback a while after the crack down.

So how does it appear to me?
Well,if we go by the logic that thanks encourages people to be smart assed twats,then why isn't every forum on boards that has thanks on it like that?

I'll let someone else work that out

Captain Darling · 21-08-2009 2:52pm

tbh wrote: »

please can we have thanks in the dome please? There's the odd good one.

+1

It would be very interesting to see how that'd pan out.

K-9 · 21-08-2009 4:20pm

stovelid wrote: »

I miss the old pre-thanks AH.

Always so full of incisive social commentary, intelligent debate and serious issues.

No puns; no jokes.

It was the golden AH era for me until thanks ruined it all.

Damn, No thanks button.

Hail 2 Da Chimp wrote: »

From that perspective I'd almost put the thanks on par with lol-cats.
As soon as a new thread starts, someone pipes in with a smart-arse answer just for the sake of getting thanks, there was a spate of these type of posts in feedback (even after the lol-cat clean up and extra moderation).

Basically, as long as the thanks system is in AH, people will always jump into new threads and try to get the first smart-arsed reply, which leaves the first page of a potentially good thread a total mess. I believe the thanks system encourages this type of posting / spamming.

So, no thanks button is going to stop or reduce this? It is AH, it isn't a serious forum for discussion with strict rules like Politics. If a topic is worthy of debate, after a few pages the smart replies filter out.

stovelid · 21-08-2009 5:19pm

The real issue here, as ever, is the constant campaign of current months to cleanse AH of non-serious/'offensive' content and turn it into a politics/humanities-lite forum, albeit one with a bigger footfall and where you don't have to back up your assertions.

Mr. Presentable · 21-08-2009 6:48pm

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Ah why can't I thank anyone's fecking posts here?!!!
/rips hair out.

Thanks

Terry · 22-08-2009 1:53pm

5starpool wrote: »

I don't like Man Utd. Can we ban discussion of them from boards too?

This is the thread for suggesting things we want that other won't want, isn't it?

Well we have banned discussion of that team from AH. I'm sure you and your fellow mods could come up with a similar rule for the forums you mod.

Sarky wrote: »

It's just Karma and Reputation all over again. The only reason it hasn't blown up like those two features yet (and I do stress yet) is becuse there's no "anti-thanks" to directly upset people. I'd like to see it gone altogether. Spammy +1 posts might increase, but that's what moderators have a delete button for, right?

Right.
And sort of wrong.

I personally do not like the thanks thingy in AH.
It has already been stated that it just increases really ****ing retarded replies.
I mean it has always had retarded posts, but the thanks thingy just increased that ten fold.*

Some people seem to mistake AH as boards version of /b/ or something awful. It is not. It never was and it never will be.
It's my belief that the thanks thingy just brought more of the juvenile crap from those forum to AH. If anything, they belong in tCN. The thing about tCN is that it doesn't have thanks or post count +1, so you get the post whores and the thanks whores and the post/thanks whore all converging in AH and trying to be funny. The thing is, they rarely are.

I don't think I can state clearly enough that AH is not there for the lulz (or whatever the meme of the day is). It's a general discussion forum. It's for stuff that doesn't belong anywhere else on boards.
Yes, there is plenty of room for lighthearted discussion, but that doesn't mean turning a thread about 500 people losing their jobs into a punfest.

On the other hand, it seems that most people want that, so what's a man to do?

*estimation. I haven't counted them.

Bonavox · 22-08-2009 5:44pm

No

I voted yes because I believe it would cut down on silly replies. Thanks is for constructive and helpful replies, not for funny posts

jumpguy · 22-08-2009 6:25pm

I think it has a lot of bad points but alot of good too, which I think outweighs the bad.

kumate_champ07 · 29-08-2009 4:50am

Pygmalion wrote: »

If you think this measure would reduce these stupid replies then I'm fully against it.

Im fully against your ma, right now.

Stark · 29-08-2009 11:12am

Bono Vox wrote: »

I voted yes because I believe it would cut down on silly replies. Thanks is for constructive and helpful replies, not for funny posts

What's wrong with the latter? I come to boards for a good laugh as much as anything else, especially in the social forums.

meditraitor · 29-08-2009 11:15am

Thanks is not a problem in after hours, its the serious business gobsheens trying to stop the lighthearted nonsense that makes after hours such a cool forum.

My advise to those who dont like Thanks/Yor Ma/ penis/gee references/ shit talk, taxi driver bashing threads is to bugger off back to the humanities or god fobid_ economics forum.

I think there should be an automatic ban for anyone who compalins about after hours :P
On a serios note, why is there two sticking out tongue smilies?

Mimikyu · 29-08-2009 12:43pm

No

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Terry · 30-08-2009 1:48am

Stark wrote: »

What's wrong with the latter? I come to boards for a good laugh as much as anything else, especially in the social forums.

AH is about as social as O'Connell street on a Saturday night.

thomond2006 · 30-08-2009 11:25am

Terry wrote: »

AH is about as social as O'Connell street on a Saturday night.

That post is a good example of why there should be thanks in Feedback.

Hank Scorpio · 04-09-2009 11:48pm

No

My name is URL wrote: »

Maybe there could be a button where members can disable thanks when they're starting a new thread..?

Then people can make threads without worrying about any whoring posts

:pac:

My name is URL · 04-09-2009 11:54pm

nuxxx wrote: »

:pac:

dr.bollocko · 05-09-2009 1:02am

My name is URL wrote: »

Green eyed monster I reckon.

05-09-2009 12:09pm

No

Every second post in a new thread has many thanks as its normally a smart arse comment.

dr.bollocko · 05-09-2009 12:27pm

LittleNipper wrote: »

Every second post in a new thread has many thanks as its normally a smart arse comment.

You've got a Hitler smiley face for your avatar. My username is Dr.Bollocko. People in glass houses and all that.

05-09-2009 1:51pm

No

dr.bollocko wrote: »

You've got a Hitler smiley face for your avatar. My username is Dr.Bollocko. People in glass houses and all that.

Never said it was a bad thing:)

Fink Goddie · 08-09-2009 12:52pm

Awww If there was no thanks in AH what would all the tell tail, mod @ss lickers who thank bannings do.
Other than that thanks is good, the smart comments is what makes AH.

dr.bollocko · 08-09-2009 1:00pm

Fink Goddie wrote: »

Awww If there was no thanks in AH what would all the tell tail, mod @ss lickers who thank bannings do.
Other than that thanks is good, the smart comments is what makes AH.

Keep on fighting that powah!

Fink Goddie · 08-09-2009 2:32pm

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Keep on fighting that powah!

Ah knew you'd reply, you cant help yourself, i think you secretly love me really.

orestes · 08-09-2009 2:58pm

Fink Goddie wrote: »

Awww If there was no thanks in AH what would all the tell tail, mod @ss lickers who thank bannings do.
Other than that thanks is good, the smart comments is what makes AH.

Please, for your own sakes, just stop, seriously

Fink Goddie · 08-09-2009 3:15pm

orestes wrote: »

Please, for your own sakes, just stop, seriously

Bite me.

Beruthiel · 08-09-2009 3:21pm

Fink Goddie wrote: »

Bite me.

Less of that thanks.
B

Thanks in AH

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