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How often do you check your thanks?

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    #122
    liah
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,750 ✭✭✭liah


    I didn't realize I could even check my thanks, never really cared about it all that much tbh, but apparently I've been "Thanked 2,023 Times in 581 Posts."


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    #123
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    whats with all the thanks whoring threads, yes i have been guilty of starting the odd one, but have lost count of all the ones started this week.

    check mine along with checking the new posts in thread i have contributed each time i log in, and am happy with my lot

    ;)


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    #124
    kraggy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭kraggy


    About as often as I check my balls for unwelcome growths. Every 20 mins.


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    #125
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    Beasty wrote: »
    You are both wrong. Timbuk2's calculation is the total number of thanks per posts with thanks.

    The correct way to look at it is total thanks per total posts

    Jumpguy = 1119/2965 = 37.7403%
    Timbuk2 = 769/2079 = 36.9889%

    So Jumpguy wins (just)

    That makes no sense whatsoever.

    I hate hearing 'thanks whoring' throw around, my (and lots of other posters) posts have been the same long before 'thanks' were introduced.

    Same with people who go on about post counts - I'd rather they got rid of post counts so we wouldn't have to listen to these nutballs.


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    #126
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Is there any way that the boards developers can find out if the people who are claiming that they didn't know how to check their thanks or never check my thanks have ever clicked their find all thanked posts link and how often?

    A statistical league of shame with a link to the hypocritical post(s) would be fun.


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    #127
    Atavan-Halen
    Registered Users Posts: 15,183 ✭✭✭✭Atavan-Halen


    Fairly regularly if I'm honest, because as a teenager I must always know how popular I am on the internet.


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    #128
    6th
    Registered Users Posts: 17,247 ✭✭✭✭6th


    after every shower i check my sack for lumps, beard for grey hair and then my boards profile for new thanks.


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    #129
    ToniTuddle
    Registered Users Posts: 8,964 ✭✭✭ToniTuddle


    6th wrote: »
    after every shower i check my sack for lumps, beard for grey hair and then my boards profile for new thanks.

    Fair play for being so healthy!

    :D


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    #130
    Atavan-Halen
    Registered Users Posts: 15,183 ✭✭✭✭Atavan-Halen


    ToniTuddle wrote: »
    Fair play for being so healthy!

    :D

    Well that depends on how often he showers.


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    #131
    Notorious
    Registered Users Posts: 2,167 ✭✭✭Notorious


    jumpguy wrote: »
    If you spent a day on After Hours, you'd know we're all just a bunch of thanks-whores, and that's why this forum is a crazy place.

    IMO this is what has made after-hours suck. The majority of posts take up the structure of: OP, four or five thanks hunters spitting out witty comments and then a load more posts follow which I guess the majority of posters don't bother reading.

    Anyways, I check my thanks every so often. It's nice to see whose in agreeance with me.


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    #132
    Jay P
    Registered Users Posts: 4,944 ✭✭✭Jay P


    I check fairly unregularly. Instead, I check the threads I've commented in for more comments. Much better.


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    #133
    Fighting Irish
    Registered Users Posts: 7,065 ✭✭✭Fighting Irish


    never, the "thanks" thing has made boards a worse place


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    #134
    ToniTuddle
    Registered Users Posts: 8,964 ✭✭✭ToniTuddle


    Fighting Irish wrote: »
    never, the "thanks" thing has made boards a worse place

    Has it not helped people from taking things off topic?
    They just hit the thanks button to show they like a comment
    I'm new enough here and don't know how long the thanks thing has been going?


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    #135
    Fighting Irish
    Registered Users Posts: 7,065 ✭✭✭Fighting Irish


    ToniTuddle wrote: »
    Has it not helped people from taking things off topic?
    They just hit the thanks button to show they like a comment
    I'm new enough here and don't know how long the thanks thing has been going?

    Ye in theory it's good, but on boards it's usually used for people trying to be funny


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    #136
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,096 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Checked it now, ever do disappointed!


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    #137
    jumpguy
    Registered Users Posts: 7,962 ✭✭✭jumpguy


    The-Rigger wrote: »
    That makes no sense whatsoever..
    :confused:
    Fighting Irish wrote: »
    Ye in theory it's good, but on boards it's usually used for people trying to be funny
    After Hours isn't boards. After Hours is one of the few forums where thanks can be seen as a bad thing. In alot of other forums, it's great and rewards helpful or actually funny posts.


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    #138
    Carsinian Thau
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,054 ✭✭✭Carsinian Thau


    I've never checked it. Don't really care enough to.


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    #139
    Fighting Irish
    Registered Users Posts: 7,065 ✭✭✭Fighting Irish


    jumpguy wrote: »
    :confused:


    After Hours isn't boards. After Hours is one of the few forums where thanks can be seen as a bad thing. In alot of other forums, it's great and rewards helpful or actually funny posts.

    It doesn't reward anyone, it gives people with big heads even bigger heads. The thanks button is on par with txt spk


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    #140
    electrogrimey
    Registered Users Posts: 3,791 ✭✭✭electrogrimey


    Fighting Irish wrote: »
    It doesn't reward anyone, it gives people with big heads even bigger heads. The thanks button is on par with txt spk

    Only on AH really, on the other forums I frequent, thanks are just a nice gesture, not an ego thing.

    Is there anyway to see which posts of yours have the most thanks? There should be an option to list the thanks in your stats not by date, but by number of thanks.

    /potters over to feedback.


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    #141
    **Timbuk2**
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 7,395 Mod ✭✭✭✭**Timbuk2**


    I think thanks are a great feature on boards.

    If I'm trying to speed-read a thread, the posts with the most thanks are usually the ones worth reading. In serious forums, the most helpful posts have the most thanks. In the light-hearted forums (Humour, AH, Cool Vids.& Pics) the funniest posts have the most thanks, again speeding up the process of reading threads.

    Those who don't like the thanks button - just don't use it!


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    #142
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    The-Rigger wrote: »
    That makes no sense whatsoever.

    I hate hearing 'thanks whoring' throw around, my (and lots of other posters) posts have been the same long before 'thanks' were introduced.

    Same with people who go on about post counts - I'd rather they got rid of post counts so we wouldn't have to listen to these nutballs.
    A-fucking-men. I wish post count and thanks count were no longer displayed. And I also wish moderators' status was only visible on the forum(s) they moderate.


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    #143
    ToniTuddle
    Registered Users Posts: 8,964 ✭✭✭ToniTuddle


    Dudess wrote: »
    And I also wish moderators' status was only visible on the forum(s) they moderate.

    Now that would be kinda good.
    But at same time the links to their forums are below their names, which helps others check these forums out. I know I found new forums that I didn't realise were there as a result!


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    #144
    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    meh just like post counts i don't really care for them.

    it's just another device for people to stroke their massive egos with tbh.


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    #145
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    ToniTuddle wrote: »
    the links to their forums are below their names, which helps others check these forums out. I know I found new forums that I didn't realise were there as a result!

    Me too.

    More importantly though, 22 more posts for you and partaaaay time ;)


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    #146
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,096 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    Me too.

    More importantly though, 22 more posts for you and partaaaay time ;)

    I don't do anybody with less than 1k posts


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    #147
    ToniTuddle
    Registered Users Posts: 8,964 ✭✭✭ToniTuddle


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    Me too.

    More importantly though, 22 more posts for you and partaaaay time ;)


    Ha! I couldn't figure out what you meant there but I get it now.

    I'll finally hit the 1,000th post tonight.
    Should I make it something profound or just let it be an answer on the Puzzles forum.....?:p

    And people will then look and see I've only joined this site in October and think JAYSUS that doll is addicted to boards!! :eek:

    No folks. I just LOVE to friggin talk to random strangers.
    Mammy never taught me about - Stranger Danger! :p


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    #148
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    Tar.Aldarion wrote: »
    I don't do anybody with less than 1k posts

    That's why I said it'll be 'partaaay time' for her.

    You haven't lived 'till you've been Tar'd ;)


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    #149
    ToniTuddle
    Registered Users Posts: 8,964 ✭✭✭ToniTuddle


    Tar.Aldarion wrote: »
    I don't do anybody with less than 1k posts


    I'm your fiancee! You will do me if I bloody well tell you too!

    *stamps foot*

    *checks Thanks count*


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    #150
    rannerap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,900 ✭✭✭rannerap


    i never check mine,i wonder what its at now


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    #151
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,096 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    ToniTuddle wrote: »
    I'm your fiancee! You will do me if I bloody well tell you too!

    *stamps foot*

    *checks Thanks count*
    Not consumating till you have 1k posts!
    only then will I answer the door :p


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