You can now Thank LQ Members

richs-lxh · 12-15-2008, 11:20 AM

This is something we have always had at Dreamlinuxforums, and I think it is a great idea for showing your appreciation when somebody has helped you. The "Thanked X Times" on the user profile also shows the member that their help is appreciated. It's a nice incentive.

I especially like the 'pop-under' that appears and shows you who has thanked you. We haven't got that at DLF. Damn!

richs-lxh

pusrob · 12-15-2008, 12:11 PM

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Originally Posted by tunez

Hi!! I don't think we need a system to observe how much we thank each other.

I think it is needed. Many people just don't say a word if I/we give a suggestion on a problem, so I/we don't know if we solved it. From now on they don't even need to say anything. They just need to press the button and that's all. This method not only eliminates the mentioned dilemma, but also elimiates the "thanks" and "thank you" posts (these don't contain any info, so these are not so useful posts). I wonder how many of these are out there... This method also lets me/us know if our post helped in the future.

ronlau9 · 12-15-2008, 01:07 PM

I do not like it remains me to much when I was still in active in ICT
If somebody thanks me I always said well I get pay for it .
And now my payment is just fun to help people IF I CAN.

PaulSaenz · 12-15-2008, 11:55 PM

I always want to thank the person who helps me, but it is always a pain to click on a reply link, and then type a thank you message. This way, all I have to do is click on the thumbs up. It accomplishes the same thing, and it is so much faster and easier.
Thanks

jschiwal · 12-19-2008, 02:00 PM

I hope that Jeremy doesn't add a "Thumbs down" feature. Imagine if your user cp displayed:
Thanked: 7
Damned: 8

Not so sure how I would tally.

ncsuapex · 12-19-2008, 02:41 PM

I like this feature but I do see some negative side affects.

Say multiple people gave advice in a thread.. And the thread starter thanks 1 person but didn't thank the others who gave advice, even if the advice didn't help fix the problem they still took time to be helpful. The others that didn't get thanked may resent that and over time people who didn't get thanked may quit helping.

I know.. may be a little far fetched but I can see that happening.

billymayday · 12-19-2008, 03:00 PM

You get a fair bit of that with thank you posts in any case. I simply never respond to that poster again when it happens to me.

jschiwal · 12-19-2008, 05:56 PM

If you recommend using mencoder to transcode a video, and I recommend ffmpeg. The advice that the original poster gets working will probably be the one thanked. A user could instead post back to indicate success and say thanks to everyone.

One of my pet peeves is when a thread goes on for a while but you don't know if the OP got it working or not. I'd rather see that the advice worked.

ButterflyMelissa · 12-21-2008, 12:59 PM

I love it!

Click-happy as I am, I gave it a whack right away... ;-)

Yet annother way to bring the community together, and a way a measure the help given...

Thumbs up!!!

Thor

alan_ri · 12-21-2008, 04:08 PM

This is something that I've suggested a long time ago,so it's nice to see that we now have this options.
Thank you Jeremy for making LQ better,I really appreciate it.

arubin · 12-22-2008, 03:34 AM

I notice that my 'Thanked' counter has been incremented to 1. How do I find out who has thanked me and for what?

colucix · 12-22-2008, 04:11 AM

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Originally Posted by arubin

I notice that my 'Thanked' counter has been incremented to 1. How do I find out who has thanked me and for what?

Go to your profile page and click on the "Statistics" tab, scroll down to the "Total Thanks" section and click "Find all thanked posts by arubin".

dmail · 12-22-2008, 06:34 AM

"the ability to completely opt out would be available during the initial roll out"
Bring on the roll out then, this is currently having the effect of me not posting.

jeremy · 12-22-2008, 07:45 AM

I mentioned before that the comment you quoted pertained to the reputation system (which no decision has been made on yet). I'd be interested to hear why the possibility to get thanked would prevent you from posting (especially keeping in mind that we already actively encouraged members to manually post a "thanks" for years).

--jeremy

dmail · 12-22-2008, 09:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jeremy

I mentioned before that the comment you quoted pertained to the reputation system (which no decision has been made on yet). I'd be interested to hear why the possibility to get thanked would prevent you from posting (especially keeping in mind that we already actively encouraged members to manually post a "thanks" for years).

--jeremy

I have already explained this Jeremy. A thanks posted in the forum is not stored on your profile. I do not want this and you are forcing it upon me so please remove my account.