The "Thanks" button is gone - Take II.

[Buoyant1]

Thanks CD! I appreciate your time! (and if there was a thanks button....aaahh...skip it )

The Thanks button is not a standard feature of vBulletin. It is an add on or a "hack." As such, it appears to have to be updated separately whenever upgrades are done. When the hack was uninstalled, it appears that something was lost, reset, or

The reinstall appears to be having a configuration problem and I know just enough about this stuff to be dangerous with it. I'm working through it, in my spare time, but it's not going to be an instantaneous fix.

To address Why? it was uninstalled, there were some complaints regarding the whole thanks issue and staff was reviewing these complaints to assess the merit and the course of action. Pete has been busy with other issues and missed most of the discussion, leaving it up to us to come to a consensus. When he came in and checked, his misread part of the discussion and killed the entire hack. He made note of that here:



So no, it was not done as a "control" thing. It was done as a result of a misunderstanding, which we are now working to correct.

Just to be clear, there are several issues that the Thanks! function has caused amongst users. It is not about an individual user, thread, or group. It's about a collective problem which I will not discuss further here.

In response to a few other comments that have been made in the thread:

• Yes, there have actually been complaints.
• No, you don't have to believe that if you don't want to.
• The reason why most of you aren't aware there is a problem is because you're not the ones that the emails, PM's and reports get sent to.
• Just because you can't envision how something can cause a problem for another user doesn't mean that it can't.
• People have the right to disagree on their opinions of the Thanks! or how they use it.
• Things that we consider abuses will be dealt with on an individual basis once it's been reinstalled.
• Expect that there will be some functionality changes and limitations

 

[Buoyant1]

In looking for a suitable MicroManagement picture to post here, I found this???? Is the end game????

Would this be the wrong time to say Beetlejuice?

 

[carrielsal]

Maybe we should have a "F*@k You" button ... betchya that one would get used a lot ... :blinking:

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

This would be an interesting button that I could have used last week.

 

[Jim Lapenta]

I want to see the following buttons:

Darn Tootin!
Damn Straight!
You Rock!
I concur with your conclusions.
You are full of shiite!
Wait, I think, YEP he/she is full of shiite!
Right On!
You tell em ferret face!
and most of all


Boobies, I like em!

 

[ScubaSteve]

I want to see the following buttons:

Darn Tootin!
Damn Straight!
You Rock!
I concur with your conclusions.
You are full of shiite!
Wait, I think, YEP he/she is full of shiite!
Right On!
You tell em ferret face!
and most of all


Boobies, I like em!

I want to add this button to your already comprehensive liust:

- You are depriving a village somewhere of an idiot
- I refuse to carry on this battle of wits with such a twit

oh and also

THANKS

 

[Buoyant1]

I want to see the following buttons:

Darn Tootin!
Damn Straight!
You Rock!
I concur with your conclusions.
You are full of shiite!
Wait, I think, YEP he/she is full of shiite!
Right On!
You tell em ferret face!
and most of all


Boobies, I like em!

+1 on the BOOBIES button!


Maybe we need a "thanks" smilie!

 

[Kevin Carlisle]

+1 for Boobies

 

[lavachickie]

There's no way I can read 37 pages of comments today, so I'll just throw in my two cents. I liked The Thanks Button (TTB). As a new contributor, that feedback was really encouraging to me -- encouraging that while new, I still had something of value to say and add. To see those who I was admiring click that button in response to what I had said... well, it let me know I wasn't as crazy as I was sometimes feeling. =-)

Also, with the plethora of information available out there (and often times a lot of different viewpoints and information in a single thread), I could build my own evaluation based on who else had used TTB. So while I may not be able to factually confirm all the technical information present based on my own knowledge level, I could look at who had thanked, and get an idea of the information's value or accuracy. One picked up quickly on the relations and cliques, and that too is information one can use!

I can't think of a single online community, not to mention one this large, active, and passionate, that doesn't have its fair share of personalities, **** stirrers and even the occasional blow up between otherwise reasonable people. So far... I must've avoided all the nasty stuff people allude to because I haven't seen much like that.

So, I for one will be glad to see it back.

 

[wrybosome]

I want to see the following buttons:

Darn Tootin!
Damn Straight!
You Rock!
I concur with your conclusions.
You are full of shiite!
Wait, I think, YEP he/she is full of shiite!
Right On!
You tell em ferret face!
and most of all


Boobies, I like em!

hahaha +1.

How about:

Asshat!
The following users think you are a crank:
You're going to die!
Chicken Little!

and

Curmudgeon rating button.

 

[merxlin]

I want to see the following buttons:

Darn Tootin!
Damn Straight!
You Rock!
I concur with your conclusions.
You are full of shiite!
Wait, I think, YEP he/she is full of shiite!
Right On!
You tell em ferret face!
and most of all


Boobies, I like em!

+1 on the BOOBIES button!


Maybe we need a "thanks" smilie!

+1 for Boobies

As you wish!