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

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    #32
    Oink
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 2,150 Mod ✭✭✭✭Oink


    Jmsg wrote: »


    [...]


    What are your thoughts on the matter? Is this a real imperative?


    My thoughts on the matter is that I wouldn't turn up in a new place and start telling people how to run it after just 3 posts while trying to sound like I read at least 2 books last year, if not 3.


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    #33
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,490 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Flyingsnowball wrote: »
    There are three people here who hit refresh on the main page all day hoping to get in on a new thread at the start.
    They make a stupid joke or abuse the original poster. Then they refresh the page checking how many thanks they got all day while checking for new threads to make stupid jokes on.

    Four people.


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    #34
    Pa8301
    Closed Accounts Posts: 543 ✭✭✭Pa8301


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    Four people.

    +1


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    #35
    Berserker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,046 ✭✭✭Berserker


    kneemos wrote: »
    There should be an unthank button to discourage the same gibberish that pops up in every single thread.

    You can remove them.
    GreeBo wrote: »
    Bring back +ive and -ive rep...then see where you are OP!

    Or a dislike button. I'd be hitting that for the OP. Some absolute garbage in his or her post.


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    #36
    gimli2112
    Registered Users Posts: 13,407 ✭✭✭✭gimli2112


    I tend to thank anything I agree with, makes me laugh, educates me or sometimes if it's just responding to something I've said. I tend to overthank but it doesn't concern me just like my other addictions.


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    #37
    Lorelli!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,360 ✭✭✭Lorelli!


    It is right to give thanks and praise.


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    #38
    Squatter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,841 ✭✭✭Squatter


    gimli2112 wrote: »
    I tend to thank anything I agree with, makes me laugh, educates me or sometimes if it's just responding to something I've said. I tend to overthank but it doesn't concern me just like my other addictions.

    +1.2753


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    #39
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    Jmsg wrote: »
    It's my take that the "thanks" system operant not only on this public form in particular but throughout the internet in general should be immediately disabled by those capable of doing so. The only function it serves is to align those with matching divisive ideological tendencies or to gain cheap approval.

    For example, if a post which contained the highest degree of prejudicial/ideological bias possible despite the real value of it's content such as "woman/blacks = victim, man/whites = oppressor", this would be prone to the highest amount of likes, whereas a highly nuanced post taking a myriad of angles on a given issue would receive the lowest.

    I'm not going to pretend that I'm immune to self-aggrandisement and wouldn't tend to habitually check and see if my posts are liked, however I can say I am very much conscious of my tendency towards doing so and the feature is only promoting the reverse kind of greater unconsciousness.

    It seems to me to be no coincidence that this website has formed in the way it has as a a specifically Irish forum. I don't necessarily see other countries, even those comparable in size doing so. I don't think anyone will take it as a controversial or slanderous remark to say that communication on the ground in Ireland tends not lightly towards superficiality and conformity. It's really no surprise why. We don't speak our own native language relative to our ethnic heritage. This means there is always inherent within us a tendency to appeal to what is beyond our own capacity, looking for mere approval rather than internal coherency and consistency. It seems this as a compensation to this situation this public forum has emerged, and I believe it is something we should cherish most dearly. It's value however seems to be being compromised by the aforementioned feature, whatever amount of individual expression positively enabled through the anonymised circumstance being in equal measure stifled by the usual collectivist tendencies native to Ireland in it's current condition.

    What are your thoughts on the matter? Is this a real imperative?

    Someone's not getting enough thanks.

    Why do you even care? It's so irrelevant. "A plea" :D


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    #40
    PARlance
    Registered Users Posts: 21,093 ✭✭✭✭PARlance


    Can we get 100 Thanks for the OP?


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    #41
    alan1963
    Registered Users Posts: 85 ✭✭alan1963


    sometimes I wish there was a thumbs down button.
    if you agree with a post thumbs up.
    if you disagree with a post thumbs down
    if you are neutral about a post do nothing.


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    #42
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Bring back the rep system! (now that was practically facebook before facebook became a swearword)


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    #43
    uncommon_name
    Registered Users Posts: 416 ✭✭uncommon_name


    8-10 wrote: »
    You’ve only just joined the site yesterday. Give it time FFS

    I would put my house on it that he is a member of Boards.ie for years and that this is a second account that was created for the sole purpose of posting this so that he is not losing "Thank You's" on his main account.


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    #44
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    This is just a clever ploy to get thanks. 19 people have been fooled so far. Your mind games aren't going to work on me.


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    #45
    mad muffin
    Registered Users Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxXdE7pBTjQ


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    #46
    Ariadne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,149 ✭✭✭Ariadne


    I totally overthank stuff but sometimes I feel awful if I see that someone has posted something and nobody thanked it, like they're being ignored. Obviously if I don't agree with it I won't thank it but I don't like to see people being left out :o


    I'm also a shameless thanks whore so I love a good thanking :D


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    #47
    valoren
    Registered Users Posts: 5,458 ✭✭✭valoren


    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.


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    #48
    Purgative
    Registered Users Posts: 2,509 ✭✭✭Purgative


    Succubus_ wrote: »
    I totally overthank stuff but sometimes I feel awful if I see that someone has posted something and nobody thanked it, like they're being ignored. Obviously if I don't agree with it I won't thank it but I don't like to see people being left out :o


    I'm also a shameless thanks whore so I love a good thanking :D


    Me too. I feel sorry for apparently ignored but sensible posts.




    I also sometimes, quite cheekily, thank a carded post - I know lock me up and throw away the key.


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    #49
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    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.


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    #50
    Korvanica
    Registered Users Posts: 3,992 ✭✭✭Korvanica


    alan1963 wrote: »
    sometimes I wish there was a thumbs down button.
    if you agree with a post thumbs up.
    if you disagree with a post thumbs down
    if you are neutral about a post do nothing.

    Only if it didn't change the ordering of the posts.


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    #51
    rob316
    Registered Users Posts: 17,956 ✭✭✭✭rob316


    I'm not going to pretend that I'm immune to self-aggrandisement

    WTF does that mean


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    #52
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    rob316 wrote: »
    WTF does that mean

    The act of enhancing or exaggerating your own power or influence. Used incorrectly by the OP, unfortunately, as Thanks are an enhancement, of a post, by others and not one's self.


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    #53
    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    One thing I like to do, but don’t do as often as I should, it thank somebody who disagrees with me politely.

    If we all did that (and I don’t do it enough) would be a better place.


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    #54
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »
    One thing I like to do, but don’t do as often as I should, it thank somebody who disagrees with me politely.

    If we all did that (and I don’t do it enough) would be a better place.

    Has anyone ever done that here?


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    #55
    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    alan1963 wrote: »
    sometimes I wish there was a thumbs down button.
    if you agree with a post thumbs up.
    if you disagree with a post thumbs down
    if you are neutral about a post do nothing.

    No. That definitely creates cliques and if you can see who down voted even worse.


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    #56
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »
    One thing I like to do, but don’t do as often as I should, it thank somebody who disagrees with me politely.

    If we all did that (and I don’t do it enough) would be a better place.

    I used to think that way but when I did so, some time back, I was then ridiculed for agreeing with the sentiment of the post; which of course I didn't.


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    #57
    Flyingsnowball
    Closed Accounts Posts: 391 ✭✭Flyingsnowball


    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.

    Says the fella who posts that’s it I’m out or something along those lines being smart or unwelcoming and having three people thank you on nearly every thread on after hours.


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    #58
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,277 ✭✭✭Your Face


    Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »
    One thing I like to do, but don’t do as often as I should, it thank somebody who disagrees with me politely.

    If we all did that (and I don’t do it enough) would be a better place.

    You should take your own advice.


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    #59
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Politics.ie did away with their thanks function recently.


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    #60
    Keyzer
    Registered Users Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Keyzer


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


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    #61
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users Posts: 17,797 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    Don't do that, it'd ruin some of the bants.


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