I have gotten great advice from the formum over the years of trying to learn linux. I almost always try to post a followup email expressing my thanks. In looking at my new post, I see 32 posts, thanks 0.

Is there another place to post thanks?

mg92865

The "Thanked" count in your profile column shows how many times you were thanked by other members for your posts. Pressing the "Thanks" button on a post increases the Thanked count for that member, not yourself. However, you can see how many (and which) posts you have thanked on your profile page.

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The "thanks" number is not how many times you thanked others, but how many other people thanked you.

Here, I'll give you a thanks. You see it went up by 1.

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lmao!

What? So the OP thought LQ would search through his responses and figure out which ones were thankful and give him thanks points? That would be sophisticated software.

I think he was just jerking everybody's chain.

hi not enough people use the thanks button and tend to say thankyou in the thread it works out roughly 1 thanks for every 20 help/posts just looking at my own posts i have been thanked 5 times but only once on the thumb the rest in the thread so thats an 80% miss

so either we need to re-figure out how to make the system more accurate
or scrap it , which would be the wrong way

as it stands its totally misleading
in some ways it is like a currency maybe its time we came up with a better form of template ie " firstly welcome to LQ " maybe put the thumb icon at the top and explain its importance

however we do it things really need to change because it is just too inaccurate to be of any real use in its current format

so i suppose its ideas on the back of a post card to Jeremy

many of us have joined the zero threads which is a great idea some newbies may look at your thanks and decide to contact you privately with a question that they feel might be a bit silly or stupid
either way its plain to see it cant stay as it is because its totally just not working and there is much needed improvement

I'd say the system works fine, and assuming that the thread/button ratio plays out over a large enough sample then it would play roughly even for everyone. As I see it the thanked count has 2 purposes: to let me know if I'm actually being helpful as opposed to just thinking I am and to let someone that I might be trying to help determine whether or not I'm worth listening to. It serves it's purpose fine I think.

It's not like anyone's getting paid by the thanks......or are they?????

I don't pay too much attention to the thanks, it really serves no purpose, especially if you don't know who thanked you. The "Did you find this post helpful?" is slightly more useful, but not by much, especially since there is a "no" option, not sure what the point of that is.

I guess the only purpose of the thanks is maybe to boost your morale ? To know that what you post did actually help someone ... ? Maybe.

I used to think that too. Perhaps it was correct once and we didn't notice the change. The No button can lead to the confuzzling message "0 out of 1 people found this post helpful" which means one person clicked the No button.

The way I see it is as a count of how many times you helped someone.

But then, not everyone notices the button.

I don't know.

Anyway, I still think it's safe to say that the higher the Thanked count, the more people you helped.

Well, yes, but, I hope it doesn't become something of a rep system, I hate those. I've heard people requesting a Thanks/Post ratio, and stuff like that. That's ridiculous, I mean we aren't robots are we ? We are human ... aren't we ? As long as there is only thanks and no negative thanks, it's ok with me.

Not too sure about the Moderators. They could be Cyberdyne model whatevers.