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MK14:

--- Quote from: Algoma on February 17, 2022, 05:53:25 pm ---"helpful" Reaction type emoji's that can be "awarded" to the headers of significant posts in a thread to highlight them. Basically see Reddit "awards" for reference, these can also become a source of financial support for the forum operations to give them more actual value.

 :horse: :-/O   :scared:

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To check my understanding. It means users of a forum (or similar), can pay money, which then is an additional/another income stream, for the forum/channel/entity. Which allows the user to buy, virtual coins, which they can then award to helpful members.
Hence you can't just go around handing out thanks clicks, just like candy. As they have to be bought.
But since they support a popular forum/channel (Youtube), I can understand why that would be an interesting idea.

https://www.reddit.com/coins

--- Quote ---What are coins?
Coins are our virtual good, and you can use them to award exceptional posts or comments, giving them Silver, Gold, or Platinum. We'll be adding cool new ways to spend your coins in the future.
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EDIT What worries me about the system I just described (virtual coins). Is forum members finances vary, e.g. a young electronics hobbyist, who has difficulty buying stuff at the moment. So I don't like the idea of any thanking/ranking/trophy system being connected to financially purchasable tokens.

Looking at the top of this forum:

--- Quote ---A Free & Open Forum For Electronics Enthusiasts & Professionals
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Wouldn't then apply, in my opinion. Even the suggested 'expert' system, in my view, means the Open and Free bits would need to be removed or amended.

Nominal Animal:
What about combining Thanks with Agreed, instead? (As in Thank/Agree, instead of just Thank, and similarly in the statistics.)

It seems to match the current use of Thanks, especially across topics and sub-forums.  It might defuse some of the social gaming aspects ("score"), too.

rstofer:

--- Quote from: jpanhalt on February 17, 2022, 05:23:16 pm ---
--- Quote from: rstofer on February 17, 2022, 04:53:06 pm ---
Sure we do!  I'll thank all of your posts if you thank all of mine and we'll be the overachievers of the Thanks system.

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And I suspect you know that is exactly what happens on another forum, not to mention names.  Except, that forum now gives trophies.

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And I haven't been back since the day I discovered the change.  I'm far too old to get 'trophies'.  Hell, I've been retired for 18 years and my only claim to 'expertism' is that I live comfortably despite not having a commute.  Silicon Gulch was good while it lasted.  I don't miss it a bit!

fourfathom:
Only somewhat related to the "expert" tag, but more about helping beginners:

On occasion I jump in to help where there is a fairly simple question.  Sometimes I make the first reply.  Sometimes I nail it, or at least get so close that nobody else cares to add anything (even if I ask for additional comments or opinions).  I'm not looking for someone to compliment me on my amazing use of Ohm's law, and I certainly hope to be corrected if I get it wrong, but I think it would be helpful for the beginner to see a confirmation.  For all they know, I'm just some random idiot.

Nominal Animal:

--- Quote from: fourfathom on February 17, 2022, 06:24:55 pm ---Only somewhat related to the "expert" tag, but more about helping beginners:

On occasion I jump in to help where there is a fairly simple question.  Sometimes I make the first reply.  Sometimes I nail it, or at least get so close that nobody else cares to add anything (even if I ask for additional comments or opinions).  I'm not looking for someone to compliment me on my amazing use of Ohm's law, and I certainly hope to be corrected if I get it wrong, but I think it would be helpful for the beginner to see a confirmation.  For all they know, I'm just some random idiot.

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This is exactly the situation when I wish there was an Agree button, instead of a Thanks one.

Then again, the Thanks button itself does have it uses, just different.  Which is why I do not think the two would "collide" if combined into the same.  It just means that the reader needs to consider the post itself, and which aspect of the Thanks/Agreed applies.  But its very presence is useful for new members, as indication confirming the post somehow; that somehow being quantifiable only by reading the post and examining the posting history of those who thanked/agreed with it.

I must say, having ones post somehow "end" the thread with no response or acknowledgement feels nasty.  It happens to me often, and I never know whether the thread came to a natural end, or if others just got fed up with my verbosity, and chose not to engage any further.  I sometimes do avoid posting for exactly that reason, especially in the Beginner forum; I do not want to be the only one giving advice.

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