About this hack:
One of the biggest problems on forums as you may know is 'posts boosting'. There are users who LOVE to say 'thanks' when ever they can. How can it hurt? Their post count goes up, they have nothing to loose.
There are also users who really like to express their thanks to post but don't like posting a post that looks like they're post boosting.
Then comes the moderators who have to delete people's thanks yous so a thread can look readable with out the thanks yous thrown around.
Finally comes the posters of these useful posts. They have no idea how many people really likes their posts if only some people say 'thanks'.
What this hack does is fix ALL these problems - except those users who like post boosting. This places a button called 'thanks.' When a user clicks on it, it places his username in a box right under the post saying that so-and-so says 'thanks' for the post. Every-one who clicks is placed in one box.
By giving your users the extra feature, you forum will look allot nice and organized. It is a granted liking by ALL the members of your forum.
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Pictures:
Showing the 'thanks' button and stats in Postbit
Showing post after 'thanks' (user view)
Showing post after 'thanks' (admin view)
Showing post after 'thanks' with legacy posts (admin view)
Stats in members profile and link
Link in Search drop down menu
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Ohhhhhhhhh wait a second, I misread it. It only counts how many thanks a post gets but you can't actually show how many thanks a post gets? It's not phrased. Or if it's not good for the database to be able to use per-post counts instead of over-all counts.
Would it be outrageous to promise that you will be showered with a thousand young maidens and the people will line the streets with rose petals wherever you walk from this point onwards if you phrased thanks/growls per post? That would be absolutely fantastic, on mah knees beggin'.
One of my members also suggested that it would be cool to be able to set a minimum number of Thanks to qualify for display on the "Thanked" search page. And it would be great to display the number of thanks for each post, and be able to sort by the quantity of posts on this search/display page.
Ohhhhhhhhh wait a second, I misread it. It only counts how many thanks a post gets but you can't actually show how many thanks a post gets? It's not phrased. Or if it's not good for the database to be able to use per-post counts instead of over-all counts.
Would it be outrageous to promise that you will be showered with a thousand young maidens and the people will line the streets with rose petals wherever you walk from this point onwards if you phrased thanks/growls per post? That would be absolutely fantastic, on mah knees beggin'.
Thank you for your reply, Abe1! There is a link in every members profile that will display all the posts he/she has written, that have later been thanked by other members... But what we would love to have is a link that displays all the posts she herself has thanked, letting us find the posts that this member has found useful.
I also had another feature request from one of my members:
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Originally Posted by Amaranth
One of my members also suggested that it would be cool to be able to set a minimum number of Thanks to qualify for display on the "Thanked" search page. And it would be great to display the number of thanks for each post, and be able to sort by the quantity of posts on this search/display page.
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07-26-2006, 02:53 AM
There is a link in every members profile that will display all the posts he/she has written, that have later been thanked by other members... But what we would love to have is a link that displays all the posts she herself has thanked, letting us find the posts that this member has found useful.
