"Thanked x times in y posts" has already been changed. PM's are only enabled for a *very* small fraction of members, so that's not a viable alternative. Many members turn email contact off as well. Thanks for the feedback, keep it coming.

--jeremy

I've got to say, I went looking for how to post a "thanks", and it's pretty hard to find. I finally stumbled on the thumbs-up icon, but not what I'd call intuitive. A button thart says "thanks the poster" would be better.

Side question - how many "thanks" have been made site wide?

I have two basic thoughts on this.

First, the optional nature carries the problems associated with any voluntary polling, and these tend to lead to meaningless results.

Second, I find that a significant portion of members don't even bother posting a quick "it worked, thanks" message, let alone finding a rating system. Then again, a lot of posters can't be bothered reading the rules of using meaningful thread titles either.

I don't really care either way, but I don't think I'd spend too much time on it myself.

A quick straw poll of this thread:

Total posters - 18
Total posts by posters - 92,795
Total thanks to those posters - 12
Thanks to those posters on this thread - 9
Thanks to non-mod/admin - 1

can we get a thanks button on the blogs?

billymayday, to be fair the posters have had eight *years* to make the 92,795 posts and closer to 4 hours for the thanks. It's possible we'll switch the thanks button to something different.

--jeremy

I've started a thread about the thanks system here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...embers-689458/

Any further feedback about "Thanks" should be posted in that thread. Any discussion about the possibility of enabling a recognition system here at LQ should remain in this thread.

--jeremy

Actually, I only made that post after seeing http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...roblem-635313/, there the thanks to DotHQ appears to have been made in April of this year.

Was the facility enabled and the disabled, or was this a recent thanks to an old post?

That said, I reckon I've given a pretty good display of lies, damned lies and statistics.

Thank was a thanks made today to an older post. You can currently "Thanks" any post made in the last 365 days.

--jeremy

If it's retrospective, retroactive, retrowhatever, I might go back through all my old posts to see if there's anyone I can bluethumb.

Well, as long as I can opt out of the rep system, I'm ok with it. Otherwise, I am against it, because people can rep you down just because they don't agree with you or what you say, or just don't like you. What's the point of that ? It usually ends up where there will be a battle of the reps. If someone reps you down and you know who it is, you rep them down. That's pretty much what ended up happening in the last forum I was on that had a rep system. So, again, if you do enable it, please let us opt out of it if we want.

There is only the option to increase or decrease thanks. Right now (and for the future I hope), it will be a receive thanks or receive no thanks situation.