Solved the Mystery!!!
 

You will NEVER EVER see a "Thanks" button on your OWN posts -- only on the posts of others. You can't thank yourself, only others!! - Teri

Teri, "You will NEVER EVER see a "Thanks" button on your OWN posts -- only on the posts of others," explains it all. Now I understand. Boy oh boy, I need to go to bed now! Thank you lady.

Jo55, thank you I now understand. I am kind of dense tonight. Time for bed!:D

I have mixed feelings about the "Thank You" button feature...

I think in our currently society, it is more than ever to say "thanks" because so much is dwell on the negatives and the irreverent. Politeness such as "thank you's" are definitely needed, imho...

however, having also been around for a long time around the forums. I can see the "thank you" button creating problems for those that have low self-esteem that may not have any or as many thanks that some other members would receive?

A lot of the times, a forum can spiral downwards simply due to someone mentioning "clique" or when someone feels "left out"

And it can escalate into oblivion that really just drive people away...

I am not sure if it would be too much trouble or not, but can the thank you button be seen privately??

In other words, let's say I was to thank "Doc John" for his post. And I click on the "thank you" button...only Doc John can see it and he has to log in to see it.

That way, people get thanked privately, people don't have to worry about being "left out" and I also find scrolling down through the thank you's a bit distracting from the main posts...

just my $ 0.45 opinion(due to inflation..LOL)

cheerio......

tis good to have this fine forum to come to, nonetheless...I personally greatly appreciate it....:OuttaHere:

*my 10 cents~
 

I do like it!

because w/ Parkinson's disease, when you shake, and really need the info,
but can't do much more than read, I think it is a kindness, needed...
PS:
the reason -I have 10 cents instead of the usual 2 cents, is because
my rates went up... :D
LOL!

LOLOL Lavelulu, always trying to undercut my prices!! LOLOLOL!

Great to see you!

(((HUGS)))

:cool:

Hi all,

I just noticed the "Remove your thanks" line that comes up when you thank someone....now, that does look a little odd. Who "removes" their thanks, why would anyone do that???? Can't ever remember saying "thank you" to someone then saying "Oh no, sorry, I take that back"..just doesn't ever come up in real life - does it?? :Hum:

all the best!

I don't officially know why the "remove thanks" is part of the feature, but my best guess is that whomever created the "thanks" feature included the "remove" button in case someone hit the 'thanks' button by accident.

The "thanks" button is fairly close to the "reply with quote" button, so there are probably people who hit the wrong button by accident - and the 'remove' part of the feature was probably added so that if anyone hit the button by accident they can fix their mistake without a lot of hassle.

That's my best guess. We can remove our 'thanks' the same way we can edit our own posts when we make a typo :)

Thanks Button!
 

I guess being new here, I did not realize there was a post count. For me it is simply a way of saying thanks for those posts that help. I have not used the button as of yet, but would if I found something particularly helpful. It's a supportive gesture, a gesture of manners that has been nurtured in most people. Since when did saying Thank you, Please, etc become a numbers game?

Septmystic

I really have enjoyed this thread, plus I've greatly enjoyed the thanks button. It is greatly appreciated for those moments when I want to thank someone for their post, but I'm just too tired or maybe too busy to actually post a thank you. As has been stated, you don't have to use it if you don't want to. Of course, there would be no problem at all if only the originator of the post being thanked could see the thanks. I did think of that as a possible solution.
I like the new smilies, there were some comments about them awhile back in this thread. But I wish someone could explain the simple hug one to me: :hug:
I can get the group hug, but the plain hug to me looks kinda like the pinkish smilie is about to sock the greenish smilie in the chops. What am I not getting?
Hugs,

Virtual hugs would be way cool!

I was just testing the feature out using all the different themes. The one I usually use is the chestnut and it seems to me to be the one where people might be more likely to press the thanks button rather than the quote just because of the colours. On the other themes, the colours tend to stand out more and wouldn't be so difficult to press the wrong button. I guess the remove thanks button is useful if someone accidentally presses that instead of the "quote" like I just did LOL

I voted in the beginning of the poll when the number of thanks were tallied and visible on the screen, before that was moved to only show in profile. It seemed totally superfluous. Works perfectly fine in a user's profile as far as I am concerned. After reading all the responses again, I am guessing some people didn't see it when it was like that.

Anyway, I'm thinking that I probably should have waited longer before I voted. I'd still prefer to post a message or send a private message myself, but can totally understand that the thanks button might be useful for other users here, as Lavlou and others have stated. I think I've posted this before on this thread or maybe the other one, but really wanted to post about the appearance of the *thanks* in the different themes.

take care,
Lara
:)

Yes, of course I realize the "remove" button is there in case of accident; it's the placing of it that worries me - too much "in-your-face", should be smaller at the bottom. As it is, you thank someone and when it comes up it sits there, first, big and obvious, shouting "Did you mean that? Are you sure? Don't you really want to take it away?" - it kind of works like a big suggestion, rather than a "side tool". (I'm a designer, I notice these things...:Painting: ... ;) )

Whoever designed the vbulletin layout got most of it right, just needs some tweaking...
all the best!

yikes...yes I just tested it, artist, by giving you thanks for your post and then removing it :rocket:

hafta confess I personally do not like this feature:rolleyes:
I find typing a quick thank you or clicking on a few of the appropiate smilies to be more to my liking :Thanx: :I-Agree:

geepers. so you can take a thank you back? :eek: after how long? does it just show it gone or leave a record which thank you was taken back? ( on the profile..if you check who thanked you?)


i'm warning y'all..you give me choccy...no taking it back..unless you want your hand bitten :p

Well, yes! Curious you ain't getting any choccy or cookies back, oh no, no how, no way....:winky:

I'm just talking about the "remove thanks" button here (although I'm not keen on automated thanks at all)....

I can see the "remove thanks" feature becoming an expression of resentment; there are people who remove their posts if they're miffed, so this will definitely be a tool in the "someone really upset me" armament...

Maybe the mods should remove misplaced thanks if contacted - although I can't see that inadvertently thanking someone is such a terrible problem, unless it's a troll...everyone likes thanks. If you press the button on the wrong post...so what?? - leave it there and thank the other person too. In fact, the more I think about it, the less point I can see to this particular "tool".

On balance, I think it'll do more harm if left there than otherwise. It does look mighty peculiar.

My 0.2c worth!
all the best :)

virtual hug is good? :) yes,I like that one.

hello everybody, its been a long time.I have missed y'all very much:grouphug:

I'm still trying to figure out what the thanks and #'s all mean.? Do I have numbers? :eek: Julia

hi jo...coffee is waiting for you in the caregivers forum. :)

the numbers were showing up under peoples names. right now they are in your profile.

Thanks Curious, how did you know I needed that coffee so much?:confused:

now I have lost the thank you feature so I guess it doesn't much matter to me:p Tis true it has been a long time since I was here last and I'm having a heck of a time understanding this first thread I started reading in:winky: I like all the new icons that I'm finding. Julia

well you told me to take my thanks back so here it is. go hunt it:p

Jo is Joking, I hope you know:)

:p hehehe jo

the thank you button shows up only on other peoples posts. you can't see it on your own. so if you want to thank somebody for a certain post....you click on the thank button on their post.

have i confused you now? :D

good to see you. all the new smileys are fun.

oh, like that? why you sweet mama monkme.:hug: how have you been? I thought for a min. there I was lost forever . Gotta go do dinner for Mr. Jo, will be back later. may I say thank you again:D Jo

Sometimes I wish I could thank myself. :D Or a nice little pat on the back. *pat *pat

We must have a V-Bulletin board different from Braintalk? I like it that Doc John watches over us and gives us options. And especially that he answers so promptly.

http://brain.hastypastry.net/forums/...ead.php?t=7719

:eek: doody..you got a bad case of cornfusled. you even posted a link to bt. ;)

:p me thinks doc is pretty up on the vb software. whatcha think?:winky:

:::pats doody on the back:::

Yeth, Doody is very cornfusled. Ask anyone who knows her. :D :Hum:

So the "yay's" have it, 48 to 44. But we will remove any numbers related to this functionality, so there will be no tracking it or such.

Thank you for your votes and feedback, it is very much appreciated!
John

Okeydoke, the crowd has spoken... just one request.

If the "see all thanked posts by username" is shown in the profile, can the order be reversed in that list so it comes last. Unless I'm completely unusual, I do often use the "see all posts by", less often the "see all threads by" and will probably (out of sheer curiosity one bored evening maybe) take a gander at their thanked posts, but very seldom. SO "see posts" first, "see threads" next, "see thanks" last.

Make sense? Hope so...I'm almost unable to type with tiredness...what do others think?? I'm going off to :Zzzz: tis 2a.m. my time...zzzzzzzzz

all the best :)

I hope the thanks tally is completely removed from profile too :o

giving thanks is nice...but keeping a record of it.................hmmmmm....

*poof*

it's gone. doc sure is good at pushing those buttons. :D

thanks docjohn