Can i suggest a javascript or a few php lines to make reclaiming karma points easy, iād 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 āno thanksā button
Edit: in all seriousness i can see the appeal, when as is often the case (from Jozz Toykeeper etcā¦) 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 āthank you postā 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, itās so that the thread doesnāt have to be littered up with +1ās 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 donāt mind the ālitterā of thanks notes.
Maybe, sorta, but it also would really cut down on clutter and āthread bloatā. Even when its positive stuff, who wants to log in just to read dozens of new āThanks!ā posts, or worse get email alerts for new thread activity only to find something useless to themselves? I donāt. Aināt nobody got time fo dat. So I think most of us just donāt say thanks, because it doesnāt add to the conversation. And thatās kind of a shame. So for that reason, I personally also really see the appeal of a āThanks!ā 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 āthanksā button I will be tempted to skip all that and my thanks becomes an anonymous entry for a counter.
So a āthanksā 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 Iām misunderstanding what āautomatically removedā 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 donāt see it happening. We donāt 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 wasnāt SPAM, and was even a long-time member. That was weird. But it isnāt even close to being typical here.
Inability to tolerate anotherās opinion is exactly what will ruin your own ability to speak.
AAAaaaaand so Iāve shifted to permanent lurker status.
and i wanted to post a review about my AceBeam K70, Yamaha Smax, etc. ive got a million things iād like to show someone, to post here and reviewā¦ maybe you could learn something? probably too rude for someone iām sure
Edit to add: also, i marked this rude just in case someone else forgets to.
I havenāt commented on the Rude change as I feel neutral about it. Seems like a good idea. I would prefer if it Rude didnāt erase posts. Someone may post something some of us would really want to know, but others may hide it from us because they donāt want others to know it. Like Spam button, I would prefer if the button pushes were published. I just think with any type of power comes responsibility. So if someone is going to push a button, they should have a valid reason and be willing to justify it. I feel more strongly about Spam though because it can hide a whole thread and ban the targeted member.
A couple members had told me they had been auto banned like I was by the Spam button. I remember RaceR86 was one of them. I donāt recall the other. I agree it isnāt typical though.
Once it happened to me and I was aware of it, I did notice a small group of members that would pick on a new member from time to time. The taunting posts would result in the new member eventually posting something that could be conscrewed as against the rules and then they would get auto banned by Spam button clicks. The beauty of it was that the thread would disappear. So no member and no trail. I saw it happen a couple times during the night when activity was pretty low. That was why I raised so much hell about it back then. Since then, it appears that abusive spamming has stopped. At least I hope so. Iām not on much these days to really know.
I think many of you are taking this whole thing too seriously.
1. If you have a high rude score, nobody else will know but you (and SB)
2. If you have a high rude score, look at those posts and see if you broke some rules or were actually rude.
3. If you did break rules/were rude, clean up your act!
4. If you feel you were totally in line and the Rude! marks were unwarranted, donāt sweat it! If you really were rude, sb will message you. If you really werenāt rude and the people who marked you as such are abusing the feature, sb will contact them.