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Posted by: Obi Wan Stevobi
But why? If I get X number of thanks, does something happen? I guess I don't see the reasoning behind it on a site largely occupied by kids and teens. I believe 343 forums have it, and someone who says "ARs Suck" gets a bunch of likes (or thanks...whatever they are called) while someone who posts a detailed explanation helping someone open a NAT gets maybe a couple. Seems to encourage spamming opinions that cater to the lowest common denominator to increase your "thank" count. I can't see any real positive result from it. All I see happening would be encouraging people to troll for them, and they would become another annoying source of self-congratulatory posts like K/D in the Halo forums or member titles in the community forum.
We already have enough stupid and pointless ways to judge each other here. We can brag about K/Ds that can easily be boosted, and get a sense of superiority from a member title that isn't based on the quality of our posts. Why add another metric that will likely only be indicative of spamming ability?
A "thank" option may help to decrease spam. Currently, if a member posts something that other members agree with, whether they find it amusing, or believe it adequately answers the thread's question, it is often followed by a series of replies simply quoting the reply, and possibly adding "this." Instead, members could be able to "thank" someone for their post, to demonstrate their support for the post, without hindering further discussion.
Thanks can also show members that others appreciate their posts, encouraging members to be helpful and behave well by providing positive reinforcement, and can allow other members to easily see the most useful/agreeable posts in a thread.
However, I'm not entirely decided on the matter. While they could provide positive feedback, the system would also be open to manipulation. It may end up encouraging bad behaviour, with members being rewarded for creating alternate accounts to attempt to boost their account and threads.