Good sb! I just read a list of my flagged posts, which I have been wondering about. One was definitely neither rude, lewd nor conflictive, and I am 100 percent positive who flagged the other three.
Better, I agree with can, and others above, this has already improved the posting behavior of some members who necessitated new measures in the first place.
Best, besides consistently making great posts, points and contributions, Dale has now recently referenced Styx AND Rush!
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Can i suggest a javascript or a few php lines to make reclaiming karma points easy, iâd like to be reincarnated into a food critic, or a dog, i recon dogs and cats are our masters and have the best lives, surely the last step befor nirvana
Because there is a huge unpopulated hole besides the âno thanksâ button
Edit: in all seriousness i can see the appeal, when as is often the case (from Jozz Toykeeper etcâŚ) a member makes a great contribution to the forum in a post, other might be torn between just replying to express gratitude and pilling to a number of âthank you postâ with little signal/noise or just stay silent to keep the thread clean, a thx button could help with that
But, as others have said, itâs so that the thread doesnât have to be littered up with +1âs and other congratulatory notes with little or no informational value to add to the discussion. Some people would rather say nothing than to bump a thread to say thanks for something somebody else said.
Personally, I donât mind the âlitterâ of thanks notes.
Maybe, sorta, but it also would really cut down on clutter and âthread bloatâ. Even when its positive stuff, who wants to log in just to read dozens of new âThanks!â posts, or worse get email alerts for new thread activity only to find something useless to themselves? I donât. Ainât nobody got time fo dat. So I think most of us just donât say thanks, because it doesnât add to the conversation. And thatâs kind of a shame. So for that reason, I personally also really see the appeal of a âThanks!â button.
When HKJ posts his 187th (?) battery review I like to thank him for that and always try to (but not always succeed) add why I appreciate the review of that particular battery, and perhaps something constructive for the discussion about the battery. With a âthanksâ button I will be tempted to skip all that and my thanks becomes an anonymous entry for a counter.
So a âthanksâ button invites me to skip part of the social interaction that I appreciate so much about BLF.
Having a warped mind, I see this automation as being potentially problematic.
If someone has evil intent to seriously damage this forum, he could create several false accounts, then go on a Rude! marking marathon through a lot of very useful posts, reviews, discussions, etc.
Your automatic deletion could destroy a lot of the forum.
Perhaps Iâm misunderstanding what âautomatically removedâ means, but if it results in permanent deletion, that could be a problem.
I suggest instead of automatically deleting a Rude! post, just flag it for your review at a later time.
This scenario is already possible with the SPAM button. Has been for a long time. Yet, we donât see it happening. We donât generally attract the kind of members that would do such a thing as that. We did have an incident once where a large enough group of members independently marked a thread as SPAM and got it automatically shut down, when it wasnât SPAM, and was even a long-time member. That was weird. But it isnât even close to being typical here.