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| Wallace Gasiewicz:
Cerebus has committed an unforgivable cultural misappropriation. A dog (Cerebus, the dog that guards the gates of hell) Should not be allowed appropriate feline culture I do like the picture however, very nice. |
| MK14:
--- Quote from: Bud on February 19, 2022, 02:11:32 pm --- --- Quote from: MK14 on February 19, 2022, 10:43:19 am ---The Tea thread can be interesting, but in a proper technical way, it is more of a quick chat, post a picture and get lots of thanks counts for it, type of thread. --- End quote --- It is a THERAPY thread. If people say thank it means the post achieved its therapeutic goal ! :box: --- End quote --- I can think of good things about the Tea thread. They seem nice and friendly to each other, and it seems a fun place to hang out. It just seems crazy, that some of the most prominent, 'help others', forum users here, especially in the beginners section. Only get a relatively tiny percentage of the thanks (i.e. don't reach the forums top 10 most thanked people list), or end up last in it. Whereas the people who do reach the top ten list, with unimaginably high thank counts. Seem to have got it, from the Tea thread, mostly. Analogy: It's like a competition, where the people who get in the top 10 table of that sport, get there, NOT because of being good at that sport (i.e. helpful posts in the beginners thread), but because of getting points for appearing on TV interviews, and sports CHAT shows (i.e. the Tea thread and so on). tl;dr The thanks total may be measuring the wrong parameters. So making it show up on everyone's forum icon post thing. Is just rubbing salt into the wounds. |
| Cerebus:
--- Quote from: thinkfat on February 19, 2022, 09:58:23 am ---IMHO, a public display of the "thanks" counter can be a valuable contribution to overall forum climate. As it is public, people will in general seek to increase it. And I think they will find out it helps not to be a total jack-ass. An option to disable the public display for one's personal profile, for those who absolutely despise it, would be welcome. --- End quote --- How often, in real life, is the jack-ass highly popular with their particular in-crowd? Think of the loud rugby/hockey/whatever player at college who was cheered on in their idiocy by by all the other players while the rest of the world went "Oh no, not him again!" as he bellowed his way into the bar? Their friends would up-vote them and with no countering down-vote they would appear universally popular. So, no, there's no reason that the total jack-asses will be kept in check by a public display of "thanks". |
| PlainName:
Just to add my voice to a solution: the thanks system is almost perfectly OK, with the big fault that it is 'thanks'. For what? For answering, for not going off-piste, for thanking my post? IMO, 'thanks' is not appropriate because it's too wishy-washy and undescriptive. I would vote for ed.k's 'valuable' suggestion. I would be very much happier to mark a post as 'valuable' than give the poster arbitrary and unknowable thanks. Make it like Stack Exchange where the rightness of an answer (or just some off-topic off-the-wall post) is, well, valuable. 'Valuable' has meaning where 'thanks' does not. There have been many posts where I would have liked to say "this is a great post" but 'thanks' is not the way to do that. Marking them valuable would have been a no-brainer. |
| Cerebus:
--- Quote from: Nominal Animal on February 19, 2022, 06:08:06 am --- --- Quote from: eti on February 19, 2022, 05:33:50 am ---Someone actually referred to you as “Nominal Animal”, on a note, in ACTUAL REAL LIFE?! --- End quote --- No. I wrote it in italics, to indicate that in real life, it had my actual first name instead. The other option would have been to write "[Nominal Animal], one of the ..." Apparently, I chose a poor way to indicate this replacement. Apologies. --- End quote --- It was perfectly clear to the rest of us. |
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