The "Thanks" Button

[Delight]

I forgot to say when do I give thanks? It is just when it feels good to do it. I especially like thankful feelings.... delight

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[gripreaper]

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how bout getting off these antibiotics
how bout stopping eating when I'm full up
how bout them transparent dangling carrots
how bout that ever elusive kudo

thank you india
thank you terror
thank you disillusionment
thank you frailty
thank you consequence
thank you thank you silence

how bout me not blaming you for everything
how bout me enjoying the moment for once
how bout how good it feels to finally forgive you
how bout grieving it all one at a time

thank you india
thank you terror
thank you disillusionment
thank you frailty
thank you consequence
thank you thank you silence

the moment I let go of it was the moment
I got more than I could handle
the moment I jumped off of it
was the moment I touched down

how bout no longer being masochistic
how bout remembering your divinity
how bout unabashedly bawling your eyes out
how bout not equating death with stopping

thank you india
thank you providence
thank you disillusionment
thank you nothingness
thank you clarity
thank you thank you silence

[Deega]

Thanks Mozart, interesting to know members «thanks» behavior, here is mine.

Do you thank everyone with whose views are agreeable with yours, only?

No!, maybe on some occasion, as you know, we learn more from opposing view!

Do you thank everyone in your own thread, no matter what, or are you selective?

Members who contribute to a Tread I initiated will received a reply or a thanks for their participation in a selective way!

Do you thank those who post good, well-thought-out posts, even if you disagree?

Absolutely!

Are you picky with the thanks, or are you generous with your thanks?

Unfortunately, I would tend to say that I stand between the two extreme!

Do you consider the thanks thingy irrelevant or to some degree important?

It has some motivation importance I would think!

All the best to you.

Deega

[Realeyes]

Great question!

There is actually an older thread discussing this very question that had some very human witty answers that made me laugh and agree with.

Sorry, I do not know where it is; maybe the Mods who remember loads can put a link up.

[Cidersomerset]

This has been discussed before and it really winds me up !!

As far as I'm concerned a thank you has many meanings ...A polite hello, an acknowledgement of a thread, a high how are you...What ever mood you are in its nice to acknowledge
someones efforts....

Ok you may feel its unworthy of your efforts to acknowledge the posts of lesser members ,thats your prerogative !!! I don't thank everyone but if I read a post I usualy acknowledge
with a thank you whether I agree with it or not, to acknowledge their efforts.....Unless of course I don't agree with the thread !!! Then I don't....

There are members on here that have hardly acknowleged anyone and I feel sorry for them for being so 'closed minded',,,,

Just say thank you and acknowledge the efforts of everyone ....Cheers Steve

[GoingOn]

Isn't it interesting how questions like this reveal so much (if we take the time to truly examine our motives)?

Currently, I appreciate the "thanks" button. It certainly isn't required for my participation here.

If I consider a given post inflammatory, it is unlikely I will "thank" no matter how well written the post; don't feed the chaos/trolls.

If someone appears to avoid thanking (based on the numbers shown with the user ID), it is less likely I will "thank" no matter how well written the post; the poster may have negative reactions to thanking and/or being thanked.

At present, I don't have a basis for comparison to determine if I am generous or picky with "thanks."

[Unified Serenity]

I click thanks when I like what they say, when I find what they say is thoughtful and well stated even if I disagree, if it's a thread a I started and they cared enough to comment and share thoughts agreeing or not I will thank them for taking the time to respond.

I do not like how the thanks button can be a semi-silent group think method to attack a person by someone really going after a poster and then the same people thank posts on many threads that have that "attack" feel to them. I believe the thanks button can often be used to form group think and therefore would rather not have it on the forum, but then you get a crapload of "Thanks" as the only reply. It's a catch 22 feature imo.

[xbusymom]

Posted by Rantaak (here)
It's a reptilian thing,

*(it is NOT just a reptilian thing... kinda sounds like YOU are just doing 'the guy thing'... which makes it sound like you don't know what the H#77 you are talking about...)

anyway ... back to topic...

I hit the thanks button to show that people have made a difference in my life. If I resonate with what they said or if they have touched me in some way... whether I agree or disagree/ like or dislike... they made me think about something important to me... its a way to confirm like-mindedness and also a way to indicate that another person can be a 'teacher' I can learn from.

[music]

Posted by Rantaak (here)
And it makes some people feel bad when a view that contradicts theirs gets more thanks than they did. But only because the people who are wrong tend to be way too obsessed with conformity and or democracy.

So it is the number of thanks that determine whether a person is "right" or "wrong"? That must be why the people working agendas cluster-thank each other - to make them "right".

[mosquito]

I thank people who have made an intelligent response, regardless of whether or not I agree with them. I thank people who make a contribution to a discussion. Most of all I use the thank you button as a way of saying "I hear you".

Being human, I suppose I am a little selective, despite trying not to be. I have a tendency to thank people who have said something which needed to be said and have received NO thanks for saying it. But I definitely refrain from thanking posts which are : fear porn, hate motivated, utterly f*cking stupid.

To those of you who believe you're stingy with your thanks, your stats say otherwise !!!

[jackovesk]

As my Father always says "Its important to give Credit (Thanks), when Credit (Thanks) is due"...

...and this exactly how I use the 'Thanks Button'...

I use the 'Thanks Button' with Integrity & Respect....

So much so, that after reading a post I have Thanked initially & after re-reading it does'nt resonate that post will be De-Thanked...

If you get a 'Thanks' from me, it is a genuine recogniton of your post, reciprocation, effort, view &/or Opinion...

[Hervé]

My personal prize piece, as of today:

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That day, I learnt that if I wanted my posts to be thanked, I shouldn't hit cult fundamentalists / New age Church believers' dogma in the teeth with a sledgehammer... (view it here).

Since then, I always keep that tool to hand and to hell with the thanks.

[KiwiElf]

I use the thanks button for what it says - I found the information useful (translate as expanding my knowledge and awareness) irrespective of whether I agree with it or not.

But,... I'm an Elf! and that's just my take

[mind-scape]

Thanks for the Thanking Thread!
Interesting to read through the responses.

[<8>]

Thanks for an interesting subject.

My view on this..

It's just a thought if you press that button or not.
It's how you have been conditioned that decides what thought that arises, you might believe that you consciously pressing the button, but that is just another thought.

How you react if people have pressed the button or not is of course conditioned thoughts also, you can get emotions that really hurts, to emotions there you are taping yourself on your back.
It's just the ego minds way and how it responds.

If you always press the thanks button no matter what people have said and you feel gratitude because you know that everyone is important to our experience here.
Then I would suggest that you are an enlightened person..

..8..

[Ernie Nemeth]

I thank more these days than before. I find that most people really like to be acknowledged - they wouldn't have posted if they did not have something to say. Who am I to judge its merits beyond the obvious, if there even is such a thing.

I often find myself looking at how many thanks a person has given out as a way to understand the size of the ego involved.

I must admit I look for thanks from my friends to judge myself - whether my post was useful or not. My friends would be the most honest, wouldn't they?

And I like to thank those with few thanks racked up yet to encourage them to continue posting - to build their confidence. I know it meant a lot to me when I first arrived.

Oh, I'm gonna admit I often log out and sneak back in to see if I've been thanked. There I said it. So sue me. lol

[toad]

I thank when I'm thankful. :D

[Mad Hatter]

I simply use it as a count of the number of posts I have read on this forum...not all of them useful mark you... simply a convenient way of marking where I may be up to in any particular thread since no other methodolgy is available.

Should something strike me as particularly deserving of my thanks I have the option of making an entry to express such along with the opportunity to state why.

So as of this entry thats 12,453 posts I've taken the time to read, some of which I may consider absolute drivel but then you will never know...

[foreverfan]

If I read your post and it make me think or laugh... I will Thank You.

[Sidney]

I very much like showing appreciation and/or acknowledgement and/or credit to those posts which I agree with, or really enjoy. But in all honesty, on this forum,,, that accounts for a very high percentage of what I read here, and on a laptop with a tiny little square thing that you have slide all over the place to get to the thanks button, it can be time consuming to give thanks to every post that I enjoy or appreciate, it realistically is not possible for me to do that. So I will take this opportunity to say to everyone here,that I love and appreciate all of your efforts and participation on this forum, and If i don't thank your posting, please do not take it personally, or think that I don't care about you or your opinion. Because I do appreciate all of you (except for the trolls, of course).