This THANKS thing

olcoolone,

Have a look at thread #100633.

It will explain all and how to stop getting the emails.


Wayne

Prepackaged communications systems, now that's a novel idea.
Soon we'll be able to take Foxtel/a dvd player/ laptop Solitaire on the Gibb River Road.
Mount a camera outside and watch the world from the comfort of our insulated cocoon.
We won't have to talk to anyone anymore.

Progress.

I really appreciate getting notifications of a reply complete with text, which means unless i need to reply i do not need to go to the forum - a great time and download saver particularly when travelling. I find being notified of "thanks" button being pressed less than useful and of nuisance value in emails. Can the choice of what to be notified be split?

While it may be a requested innovation, pressing the thanks button is impersonal and meaningless. Not so hard to come on and say briefly "thanks to the advice particularly from XXX and YYY i did ----- and this worked" or what ever - just a bit of feedback. I do not expect it to be on every single reply in a long thread.

Motherhen

hi olcoolone
no your not on your own
this sight is slowly getting parellel to facebook and i personelly think this new -thanks -thing is a lazy way of saying thanks but will suit a lot of people who are in such a hurry and love the quick click systems and think facebook is the greatest thing since sliced bread i personely wont go near f/book
but then who are we to criticise we are not a majority
and i always say you can please some of the people some of the time
but you cant please all of the people all of the time
so i guess we just have to suck it up and move on
lol --just my thoughts on it

Easiest way is just to write posts that no-one thanks you for :-)
Some have it down pat...

Hi ,
I'm not sure that I like it, it took me 5 hits to get it to work!
I know why it has been done. Good in one way, bad in another. Sometimes an explanation is very handy.
Take care, safe travels. Ma.

Yes the thanks button was created in response to your requests (our audience). We'll give it a try for a few months and see how it goes I guess for you. In many cases, it will probably be of most use to the original poster who has asked a question, received a ton of replies and wishes to quickly acknowledge all the respondents. We could have installed it so only the person who wrote the post could see/use the button but then why do that, when not all posts are questions and some posts are information to all that others might find useful? Thanks for your feedback everyone on this topic.

Michelle, I think a good button would be an "Agree" button.

There are so many threads where 5+ people have replied with the same answer for a simple question.

The problem I see with the "Thanks" button is it stops people entering into a conversation where someone has taken the time to reply to a post.... all the other person has to do is hit a button ending the conversation; loosing that personal one on one connection.

The other way I look at it is why should I spend time replying to a specific persons post when that person can not be bothered to type a small reply back to my post...... sure the "Thanks" button might fix it but if there is no continuing conversation it makes dull and boring reading for others.

It might be the future of on line forums much the same as text has overtaken voice on mobile phones..... in another 5 years the younger generation will not know how to enter into a conversation unless texteding and then they will only be able to do up to 160 characters... at all the fast food places there will be a number they can text their orders through to and a text will come back asking " do you want fries with that or up sized".

Maybe it's just change and in another few years we will aceot it and not think any different.

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One good point to the 'Thanks' button that has not been touched on yet is........


. It puts an end to bad spelling! LOL