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  • 28-11-2011 12:17am
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    strobe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭


    Hi, was just wondering if the 'thanks' function is a boards.ie original thing, or if it's a rarely utilised vBulletin dealy, or is it adopted from some other site, or what's the deal there?


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    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,893 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    I don't think it's purely a vB thing. Another site I'm on uses the same function on phpBB.

    One of the tech guys might be able to tell you how it came into use here though.


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    Hal Emmerich
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,078 ✭✭✭Hal Emmerich


    Na, good few others use it, came across one last night where most of the Posters had a signature asking for OPs to click their "KUDOS" button if their reply was worth it, I meant to check and see what if anything the Kudos were worth.....


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    Boards.ie: Danny
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,609 ✭✭✭Boards.ie: Danny


    'Thanks' is not a native vBulletin feature, not in 3.x or 4.x. However there is a user over on vBulletin.org who has created a modification for thanking posts.

    It has it's share of issues and has been modified from the code there but in essence that is what we use :)


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    xsiborg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,635 ✭✭✭xsiborg


    that explains that one then, i thought it had come from facebook "like" system, the way recent "follow thread, follow forum" changes were introduced.

    actually some other forums still use the "rep" system, which i find handy on the likes of phone modding forums as its a good indicator of a poster who knows their stuff or is a helpful poster.

    cant see that working on boards though, especially in AH:

    <if condition="user_post_thanks[100] == 'Thanks_Whore'"> Show This</if> :D


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