I want a "Thanks" button added

[score0matic]

Over at www.contractortalk.com they have a neat feature called the "Thanks" button you click it on a post and it lets the poster know that you found his post particularly worth while.  when you click it it adds your name to the bottom of the post in a box called "The Following 14(or however many) Users Say Thank You to Tim Garrison PE For This Useful Post:"  now if you are not Tim Garrison PE  you would have to come up with your own post ( http://www.contractortalk.com/f11/over-engineer-kills-project-73267/ ).  Anyway there are some posts here that are worthy of the same treatment .

So Shane can you work your magic [not worthy] [not worthy] [not worthy]?

Craig

 

[Forrest Anderson]

Over at www.contractortalk.com they have a neat feature called the "Thanks" button you click it on a post and it lets the poster know that you found his post particularly worth while. 

This seems related to the "Karma" function that Matthew, the previous forum Administrator, considered activating.

For example, see the threads at...
http://festoolownersgroup.com/forum-features-functions/activate-karma/?all
http://festoolownersgroup.com/forum-features-functions/peer-rating/

It wasn't very popular, and after a short trial, the Karma function was disabled again.

Maybe a "Thanks" button like you are suggesting would be more popular.

Forrest

 

[Administrator_JSVN]

I think, for the moment, just saying thank in a reply or PM is going to have to do.  Contractor Talk runs on a different forum software than the FOG (vBulletin).  vB has a much larger user community and thus a lot more modifications available to the software. 

There are a couple available for our forum software that are similar but the issue is that they allow members to vote in favor of or against a post.  I don't like that idea so much.  I would prefer only the ability to vote in favor of a post.  A member who has votes placed against them may get offended and leave which I don't want to see.

I will continue to keep an eye out for something that will satisfy the desire to mark posts as helpful.

Thanks.

 

[sw1211]

When all else fails,  [thanks]

 

[Frank Pellow]

I much prefer what we have now.  That is, to thank someone by adding a post to a thread.  Among other things, you can be much more specific about exactly what the thanks is for.

 

[PaulMarcel]

[thanks]

I much prefer what we have now.  That is, to thank someone by adding a post to a thread.  Among other things, you can be much more specific about exactly what the thanks is for.

 

[score0matic]

actually this came to mind because i was browsing some older threads and there were some posts in them that I found helpful..............they didnt need a response  but the information was useful, or the incite was keen.  I actually found 15-20.  also as time would pass you could gather quantitatively the "Best of FOG" .
Craig