New feature: Thank you

DIYnot · Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 1:01 pm Post Subject: New feature: Thank you

Today we have added the 'Thanks' feature, where you can give thanks for useful posts that you come across in the forum. We'll be trialling this feature for a period of time and if successful it will become a permanent feature of the site.

You can give thanks for a post by click on the 'thanks' button:

You can see a record of how many times you have been thanked on your profile.

xerxes · Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 3:21 pm Post Subject:

Quite a good feature to have. After a while, one gains an idea of which members make the more useful suggestions or give sound advice, but it's not easy for a newcomer to tell.

It would be neat, though, if the display for the number of times thanked could be in the singular for all those forum members who get thanked only once.

333rocky333 · Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 7:48 pm Post Subject:

I have been thanked in 2 posts, how do you know what posts they were in, thanks.

RF Lighting · Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 8:28 pm Post Subject:

Can we have a no thanks button for unhelpful posts?

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ColJack · Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 8:45 pm Post Subject:

we already got one of those, it's got "ignore" written on it..

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Thermo · Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 9:20 pm Post Subject:

can we have an ungrateful s** button for those that never say thank you?

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mattylad · Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 9:55 pm Post Subject:

An excellent improvement.

However , personally I'd have put it at the bottom of the post rather than the top.

xerxes · Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 10:53 pm Post Subject:

On second thoughts, how useful is this going to be if people keep thanking their friends for frivolous posts in General Discussion?

freddymercurystwin · Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 11:00 pm Post Subject:

RF Lighting wrote:

Can we have a no thanks button for unhelpful posts?

/ignores!

Steve · Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 11:18 am Post Subject:

Can the thankyou line on the forum be word wrapped, so if 50 people thank someone, it wraps it onto several lines. Clearly on this page alone there is an issue with this!

Goldberg · Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 12:16 am Post Subject:

xerxes wrote:

On second thoughts, how useful is this going to be if people keep thanking their friends for frivolous posts in General Discussion?

Clearly that would never happen.

Goldberg · Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 12:21 am Post Subject: Re: New feature: Thank you

DIYnot wrote:

You can see a record of how many times you have been thanked on your profile.

Is there any way to remove a "thanks" that someone else has left for me?

DIYnot · Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 9:28 am Post Subject: Re: New feature: Thank you

Goldberg wrote:

Is there any way to remove a "thanks" that someone else has left for me?

Not at this time.

Goldberg · Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 10:55 am Post Subject:

Is there any way for you, i.e. on my behalf, to remove a "thanks" that someone else has left for me?

DIYnot · Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 11:10 am Post Subject:

No, it is not something that can be easily done at this stage.

Email me with the post in question and the reason why you want it removed.