Idea:The "Thank You" thread / Thank You button

[hendrixus]

Since I have subscribed to a lot of threads I also get a lot of notifications. That's great offcourse. But what's less great is that a lot of those messages only contains "Thank you very much"or less.

Example : Thank You

Don't misunderstand me. It is great you all thank the programmers for their work. But it doesn't add anything more to the thread nor the program.

So I like to propose to start a "Thank you" thread which I already started just now
If you like to thank somebody it can be posted in this thread. With every "Thank you" you can point to the specific thread with the url of the thread, pointing to the first message.

btw.Many programmers will also appriciate a donation as a "Thank You", I think.
Also to keep their work going

So would you now like to say "Thanks" to somebody?
Then put it in here

Well, thanks

 

[Irregular Programming]

Thank you, but I rather put my "thank you"s in the thread of the developer.

 

[rotastrain]

when people wana say thank you..they mean thankyou for
1>ur program
2>the things in this thread that solved my problem
3>the discussion made me feel i no somethin g bout my phone
4>thank you for being alive

so they must post it in the thread!!
not here..
then next time someone comes to the thread they see a thankyou
then they feel..hell lets search bfor posting a question cause someone got a answer!
so then they search and find their answer!!and the cycle continues!!

 

[hendrixus]

I don't think they *have* too.
As I said a before only "Thank you" doesn't add anything to the thread nor the program.And people who has subscribe to this thread get useless notifications.It clutters up the thread.So it is redunant in my opinion.

Something like "Thank you but I have this problem with your program" or "Thank you but I have this idea" or "Thank you can you add?"whatever" is something different.Others can participate to this. To a "Thank you"they can't.

Example

Like in my example you can ask yourself. Who is he thanking? The programmer? The one for replied before him? Somebody who gave a tip about the program or a link, WHO?

But offcourse have it like you want it. It was just an idea

 

[tripleA]

well it is a real dilemma for people who are reading up a thread from scratch trying to find something ....and you get all the flaming, thanks and so many other remarks


there was a forum that fixed this by putting a Thank you button behind each entry in a thread .

So once you push it youll see a footer with "The following people wish to thank ..." and its lists each person.

im not sure if it can be done here .....oh mighty gods of XDA....is this possible ?

im not sure if i can type in the name of that forum here ...

 

[torrentonly]

Well, interesting idea, but isn't it easier to make "thank you" button? You just click that in chosen thread and it is done... DB space and bandwidth saved.

 

[hendrixus]

Well, interesting idea, but isn't it easier to make "thank you" button? You just click that in chosen thread and it is done... DB space and bandwidth saved.

Seems to me like a good idea, a "thank you"button. thanks TripleA

 

[orb3000]

A thank you thread already has been placed before here:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=534413

 

[hendrixus]

A thank you thread already has been placed before here:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=534413

Right. But TripleA had a good idea, see the above. A different idea.

 

[orb3000]

Right. But TripleA had a good idea, see the above. A different idea.

Theres is also another thread regarding the thank you button...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=539440

+1 vote for it

 

[hendrixus]

Theres is also another thread regarding the thank you button...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=539440

+1 vote for it

It was posted today. TripleA's idea is from two days ago

 

[orb3000]

Youre right mate
sorry

Anyway very good idea!

 

[hendrixus]

Youre right mate
sorry

Anyway very good idea!

That's ok. Right.

 

[hendrixus]

Comment removed.

 

[Fallen Spartan]

MOD EDIT

Posts removed -Enough of the thankyou's please

Ta

Rick

 

[wovens]

Some other forums add a kudos button to the person's avatar so that you can thank a specific person, and people are sort of graded by how much kudos they get, meaning how much good they've done to the community, how reliable, in a sense they are, etc...There is also the negative (boo!) button when people are unhappy with something.
All this have it's pros and cons, depending on how grown-up or how childish (abusive?) people can be at times. But there is no doubt that it saves time and space. And nothing stops people saying thanks in other ways as well.

 

[hendrixus]

Some other forums add a kudos button to the person's avatar so that you can thank a specific person, and people are sort of graded by how much kudos they get, meaning how much good they've done to the community, how reliable, in a sense they are, etc...There is also the negative (boo!) button when people are unhappy with something.

Every advantage has its disavantages

And nothing stops people saying thanks in other ways as well.

No they won't. That's why this thread to try to come up with ideas so they do stop, and thank people on another way, like with a button. As you said. It saves space!

 

[jor3l]

thank you button for vbulletin http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=122944

 

[jul644]

i button would be very good and i think the best solution

 

[stylez]

Advantage: Less Clutter on Thread.

Disadvantage: Less personal/threads drop down list faster.

To be honest i don't see saying thankyou as an issue, what's more of an issue is mountain size quotes and multiple same questions asked by uncompitent searchers or just plain lazziness

"So maybe the OP of the thread should have more controll over the thread being able to delete the redundant posts?"