The highest number of 'Thanks' for a post

_Brian wrote: »

People count this stuff??

They do. And the last time we had this thread I checked my most thanked post and I was so embarrassed by it that I asked all thankers to go and unthank it.

Which - predictably for after hours - resulted in people going and thanking it more

Menas wrote: »

The trouble with the 'thanks' function is that it attracts the thanks whores.

I have seen worse. There is another version of the software this forum uses where you get "reputation" rather than thanks for one post. Thanks Whores get forgotten as soon as the thread dies - but with reputation people whore continuously across many threads - and even try to link back to their more popular posts in every later post they make. It can be horrific.

If memory serves - as I have not gone back there due to the horrifically bad moderation - politics.ie uses such a system. The City Data forum I post heavily on does too.

And I used to post on three forums, like isgodimaginary.com where they have a system where you can vote a user up OR down on any post which they called "kharma" and you could see on any users post how much ups and downs they have been given. And this was TERRIBLE. People used to whore like mad things - but also genuinely interesting threads would suddenly get derailed into mud slinging accusations about who was "downing" who the whole time.

So in the greater scheme of things the "whoring" on boards.ie is far from the worst. You either can not see - or have to go to some effort to see - any statistics related to a users "thank" history. And I think this is a good thing.