Thanked, Been thanked: I don't want either one

[wizard]

I came to this thread after I found the forum "thanks" format changed.

It is incredulous that a single post from a person who joined the forum on June 19, 2023, has a total of 8 post and who has contributed very little has influenced a feature that has been in place for years.

The "thanks" feature gives users a way to express appreciation or signal agreement/consensus for a post or reply without inflating the forum with brief "thank you" post. There are no awards or privileges or monetary gains for being thanked here.

We are lucky enough to have members who go above and beyond when sharing their knowledge. They freely give time from their lives to help others, time they could easily use for other pursuits.
They should be thanked and those numbers should be shown in their messages as it has been. They have earned that small bit of recognition.

To believe that members here somehow compete for those numbers is an adolescent mentality brought
over from social media platforms like Facebook or Twitter.

Get over it.

@superhik , why not try doing something useful and constructive with your time.

@rockedge , Superhik has been offered a solution. I would assume the solution is enough (don't expect a "thanks"). Put the feature back for the rest of us.

wizard

[Grey]

I took very little notice of it, TBH, but I can perhaps see that some - the 'socialist' types, I suppose - might see it as indicative of a hierarchy. Those sorts of people believe that everybody should be seen as JUST a person, and that achievements, contributions, etc, should never be mentioned because in this way, everybody is regarded as equal.

You are not familiar with the socialist system (at least in the USSR) The honored worker received more money, his photo was on the wall among the honored workers, he received benefits and the right to become a deputy

[Grey]

Well, we can also remove avatars, why doesn't anyone offer?

Look here Where is the dog running on @fredx181's avatar? Perhaps catching up with a runaway slave who escaped from a sugar cane plantation.

Why doesn't @keniv have an avatar at all? Perhaps the one who was there was eaten by the dog that is depicted on @Grey's avatar. See how he closes his mouth with his paw. He hasn't fully chewed it yet, the beast

It is difficult to make claims to the dog on @puppy_apprentice's avatar, because this is Rex, my idol with an impeccable reputation. But it was painted in the socialist times of Poland, and this is already a stain on the reputation ...

[Grey]

If I told you who I really am, all those prejudices and paradigms about me would change.
But I'd like to keep that as secret for now.

Didn't I promise that Putin would become a member of the forum ?
Drum roll... Ladies and gentlemen... He's here.
Vladimir Vladimirovich, but you should have written the first post in the forum section where everyone writes in German

[rockedge]

Didn't I promise that Putin would become a member of the forum ?

I had the pleasure of meeting and shaking Mikhail Gorbachev's hand in Germany once.

I have restored the Thanks function to the way it was to begin with.

At least an exercise in trying out options in the software and their effects when enabled/disabled.........never a bad thing to test out the controls......

[Grey]

Putin

Well... okay If we take a nickname as a starting point. superhik. This is a series of pirated cartridges with games for clones of the NES game console, which were widely distributed throughout the former USSR. I really love these games

Therefore, the author of the topic is from one of the countries of the former USSR. Or from China, where the cartridges were made. Or it's all just a coincidence :

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[williwaw]

thats better, I was thinking superhick

[wiak]

I had the pleasure of meeting and shaking Mikhail Gorbachev's hand in Germany once.

Reminds me of the supervising professor I had at university who told me that he once met Donald Trump at Aberdeen airport, Scotland (near a gold course old Donny T. owns), and (admitting embarrassment and great regret ever-since) shook his hand.

[Grey]

I had the pleasure of meeting and shaking Mikhail Gorbachev's hand in Germany once.

I had the pleasure of NOT shaking his hand.
Such things. In one country, he was a hero who connected two pieces into one country. In another country, he is a traitor who broke one country into 15 pieces. And then he lived a great life in Germany and even acting in an advertisement for some pizza.

[puppy_apprentice]

Thanks to all this confusion, I discovered List of thanks.

So anyone can turn off Thanks and look at the ranking from time to time out of curiosity.

BTW. Who is a jetstream?
gray eminence?

[rockedge]

he was a hero who connected two pieces into one country.

Reunification was going to happen one way or another. Interesting and predictable how some Americans and Russians always claim the Sun revolves around them.

BTW. Who is a jetstream?

I am Jet Stream (jetstream). This is a testing user to look at the site as a moderator or regular registered user and not as the site admin.

AKA: Rock Logic (rocklogic), Jet Speed (jetspeed), Jet Stream (jetstream).

[puppy_apprentice]

Reunification was going to happen one way or another. Interesting and predictable how some Americans and Russians always claim the Sun revolves around them.

In Poland, we also like to think that the Eastern Bloc fell thanks to Walesa and Pope John Paul II

I am Jet Stream (jetstream). This is a testing user to look at the site as a moderator or regular registered user and not as the site admin.

AKA: Rock Logic (rocklogic), Jet Speed (jetspeed), Jet Stream (jetstream).

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

[fredx181]

Thanks to all this confusion, I discovered List of thanks.
....
....

I'm in the top 10
But I gave up the ambition to get the gold medal.
Needs to be reset!
Let's say... every 4 years, just like the Olympics, new chances!

[puppy_apprentice]

You're fifth, so you're in the top 8, which means 1/4 of the final. You would have already earned £340,000 at Wimbledon

[Grey]

he was a hero who connected two pieces into one country.

Reunification was going to happen one way or another. Interesting and predictable how some Americans and Russians always claim the Sun revolves around them.

In Poland, we also like to think that the Eastern Bloc fell thanks to Walesa and Pope John Paul II

Theoretically possible But in practice, everything happened as it happened. History does not tolerate the subjunctive mood. In historical science it is impossible to use "if"

[Grey]

we also like to think

If we talk about alternative history, then I can make you a famous writer at home You just need to write a book The plot, for example, is as follows.

Year 19XX. The courageous Polish rebels threw off the yoke and defeated you-know-who Let's call the enemy... the Crimson Army Since only the invaders interfered with their plans to conquer Outer space, the Polish engineers immediately built a SpacePort in the city of Gliwice. Where the General Motors plant is now But the vile invaders destroyed the spaceport during the retreat. Moreover, they even wanted to redraw the flag of the city. They have already managed to draw blue and red stripes... But here, due to the lack of white paint and slackness, they failed to finish the white stripe Ouch. In addition, the invaders have already begun to draw a two-headed eagle on the coat of arms of the city. But they managed to draw only half of the eagle, and on the second part of the coat of arms they drew a chess rook, since it is faster and easier to draw it with a shameful retreat

And so on. Success at home is guaranteed to you Huge writer's fees, interviews and all that.

[Grey]

Interesting and predictable how some Americans and Russians always claim the Sun revolves around them.

After this topic, I feel like a white-skinned Mermaid and Cleopatra at the same time in the modern World.

It would be better if the sun did not revolve around me (if schoolchildren come to us, then it is the Earth that rotates, not the Sun )
I have been working outside for the last three days, the sun was shining at full power, 38-40 degrees Celsius from Wednesday to Friday. Burned my back, now it hurts.
Now I look like an African American. Well, or a mulatto, that's for sure.
It's finally cloudy today.

[rockedge]

It is hot and humid here too, but today cloudy and still humid