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A plea to abolish the "thanks" system on this site

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    #62
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,085 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    Politics.ie did away with their thanks function recently.
    Most likely because their Sinclair ZX81 broke down.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



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    #63
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Wibbs wrote: »
    Most likely because their Sinclair ZX81 broke down.

    I was going to thank that but, in the spirit of the thread, I'll just say; I liked that post.


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    #64
    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    Your Face wrote: »
    You should take your own advice.

    That’s what I said.


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    #65
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    Politics.ie did away with their thanks function recently.

    Never knew there was one. Is it linked to here?


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    #66
    super_furry
    Registered Users Posts: 27,321 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Anne Better Monster wrote: »
    Without a thanks option to indicate agreement or support for a comment, we would be inundated with repetitions as posters voiced said opinion for themselves. You'll find the most ardent opposition to Thanks comes from those who don't like that all these Thanks are applauding a post contrary to their own view or perhaps putting them, usually rightly, under pressure to justify a statement or premise.

    +1 to this.


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    #67
    Zorya
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,194 ✭✭✭Zorya


    All I want is a puking emoji. That's all.


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    #68
    Trigger Happy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,077 ✭✭✭Trigger Happy


    Keyzer wrote: »
    I've seen some worthless threads in my time on boards but this one has to be rock bottom.

    I would thank this 100 times if I could.


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    #69
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Zorya wrote: »
    All I want is a puking emoji. That's all.

    🤮


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    #70
    SBPhoto
    Registered Users Posts: 544 ✭✭✭SBPhoto


    This tread is total bull**** and Trolling


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    #71
    The Enbalmer
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,001 ✭✭✭The Enbalmer


    Jmsg wrote: »
    It's absurd to deny that there is an ethnic schism most prevalent in the psyches of Irish people today. The connection with speaking English might seem rather vague if one wishes to nitpick what I said but really I was pointing to the underlying history itself as most fundamental rather than the the corresponding surface level expressions that are the use of language.

    God I hate students. :rolleyes:


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    #72
    retro:electro
    Registered Users Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    valoren wrote: »
    How else are we to determine if posts that have walls of text are a worthwhile read?
    The more thanks a post get's the more likely you'll be to read it.

    I sometimes look to see who has thanked the post before I determine if I’ll bother reading it :cool:


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    #73
    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,175 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    TL;DR - "I really need to get me some poontang".


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    #74
    Zorya
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,194 ✭✭✭Zorya


    Anne Better Monster wrote: »
    🤮

    Nooooooooooo! Nothing showed up except a square box!!! Gaaahhh!!! :(


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    #75
    retro:electro
    Registered Users Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    Zorya wrote: »
    All I want is a puking emoji. That's all.

    And a middle finger one


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    #76
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    Can anyone tell me how this has managed to get over 900 thanks? If you thanked it, what possessed you to do so? Do you genuinely find it funny?

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=3244909


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    #77
    Baggly
    Registered Users Posts: 35,024 ✭✭✭✭Baggly


    It was 2005. It was a different time. Getting kicked in the face was just what we did back then.


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    #78
    Oink
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 2,151 Mod ✭✭✭✭Oink


    retro:electro wrote: »
    And a middle finger one

    I would also need a meh button. Then I can be proactively apathetic about a post.

    @Irish guitarist: please watch your tone when you speaketh of the Kicker of Faces (unbanned be his account).


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    #79
    loyatemu
    Registered Users Posts: 14,781 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    literally the OP's 2nd post on Boards. Is he just disappointed that hardly anyone thanked his 1st post?


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    #80
    retro:electro
    Registered Users Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    Thank this if you agree the thanks button should stay.



    :pac:


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    #81
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    retro:electro wrote: »
    Thank this if you agree the thanks button should stay.



    :pac:

    Liked and shared. The kittens shall survive.


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    #82
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    I didn't read the BS OP, I just pressed the thanks button. Hope that's ok.


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    #83
    pleas advice
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,492 ✭✭✭pleas advice


    Pter wrote: »
    It was 2005. It was a different time. Getting kicked in the face was just what we did back then.

    I think they only brought in 'thanks' in 2006 or 07, before that there was a kind of karma system, and then for a while there was nothing at all,
    nothing at all


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    #84
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    Oink wrote: »
    I would also need a meh button. Then I can be proactively apathetic about a post.

    @Irish guitarist: please watch your tone when you speaketh of the Kicker of Faces (unbanned be his account).


    Your hero is a charlatan. I bet he's never kicked a face in his life.


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    #85
    kowloon
    Registered Users Posts: 13,311 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    Pac1Man wrote: »
    If someone writes a post with a thesaurus, I'm definitely not thanking it.

    Yours sincerely,
    Baby Kangaroo Tribbiani.

    State of ya with yer fancy words.


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    #86
    Patlanta
    Registered Users Posts: 17 ✭Patlanta


    From reading the thread I can understand why Boards brought in the thumbs-up button to eliminate the excessive '+1' posts but they should have simultaneously brought in a thumbs-down button; if you are able to 'like' a post then you should be also be able to 'dislike' a post with a single button click.


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    #87
    Muckka
    Registered Users Posts: 498 ✭✭Muckka


    You'll get no thanks for it that's for sure.

    Posting on board's is thankless.


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    #88
    Baggly
    Registered Users Posts: 35,024 ✭✭✭✭Baggly


    Lies.


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    #89
    Arghus
    Registered Users Posts: 14,359 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    The original OP lost me at "highly nuanced."


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    #90
    Patlanta
    Registered Users Posts: 17 ✭Patlanta


    Deleted User wrote: »
    -1
    Took you more than a single button click though


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    #91
    BBFAN
    Registered Users Posts: 2,228 ✭✭✭BBFAN


    I get that this whole thread was started by a new poster but the whole likes thing does piss me off. Without dislikes what does it mean really? It just means that people who are in the same field as you (far right, far left or whatever you're called nowadays) think you're hilarious.

    Even extremely racist, homophobic, straight out genocide supporters are liked on here but not subjected to any dislikes.

    It's like Boards is an echo chamber. Strange don't you think?


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