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Originally Posted by BadgerDog

Thanks Ted ...

Before I venture down the road of installing this in our 4.04 site, two questions for either you, or perhaps others can answer them ...

1. Can this mod peacefully co-exist with the very popular "Thank You" mod? Any reported problems? If so, is it logical to have both running simultaneously, or would that create confusion amongst users?

2. We have years of the add-on mod "Thank You" records from members in tens of thousands of posts built up on our site. I think our members would freak if they disappeared by turning that mod off suddenly. Has anyone ever thought about writing a conversion mod that would take those records for each post and convert each "thank you" to a "Thumbs Up" vote for the post, essentially preserving the historical perspective for members of old posts?

Thanks again for your work ... appreciate it ... :up:

Regards,
Badger

Badger,

I've been running the Post Thank You hack for years as well. What I did was leave the Thank You hack installed but set the threshold for new Thanks to a post number way above what anyone can reach. By doing so, all the previously thanked posts still have who thanked them. The two addons co-exist fine.

I could have left the Post Thank You hack available to Thank New Posts as well as have the users find a post helpful but I opted to switch over users to Helpful Posts.

I really liked the Post Thank You hack but the author has pretty much abandoned it and some of the old features like the ability to see what posts a user has been thanked for look like they're not going to be available for vB4.

I think the Helpful Answers switchover will be better in time as it has so many advantages to displaying the Helpful Posts within a thread. I also think the author of this hack has found a nice way to parlay Open Source in a way that it is in his interest to support it long term whereas Post Thanks relies on the good will of users to support his continued coding (something that is sadly very rare).