# SDMB pet peeves

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-pet-peeves/218722>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 13, 2003, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-pet-peeves/218722 "2003-12-13T03:31:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-pet-peeves/218722/81 "2003-12-19T07:10:20Z")

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> \*Originally posted by chrisk72 \*  
> I have a question about this. After what kind of delay is it OK to bump a thread to say thank you? For example, recently I started an opinion poll. It went on for days. I did say thanks early on, but then I had to go out of town for a week with no acccess to Internet. By the time I got back, no one had posted to the thread in a few days. Should I have bumped the thread to say thanks? I did read all the posts once I got back. It seemed stupid to bump a thread to say thank you when it had already died a natural death.
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> I think GQ is different though. There I expect a thank you, even if it means bumping an older thread. I get really irritated when GQ posters never acknowledge your answers.

From the GQ Guidelines:

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> _Originally posted by Arnold Winkelried_:  
> After receiving an answer to your question, you might feel the need to thank those that helped answer your question. Whether or not to do so is kind of a balancing act of to whom to be courteous. On the one hand, obviously thanking someone who has shared his or her expertise and/or done research for you is a great thing. But on the other, not only does a “thanks” post push a thread to the top, it induces a bunch of people to re-read the thread only to find that the new post doesn’t add anything. I’d say that if a poster just provides a link or a “quickie” answer, let the thanks be implied. If a lot of effort clearly went into the answer, than a “thanks” post is fine. This is not a forum rule or anything, BTW. Just sort of a general sense of what is perhaps the best way to approach the dilemma.

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**Author:** ![thumbupmybum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df788c/32.png) [@thumbupmybum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thumbupmybum)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-pet-peeves/218722/82 "2003-12-19T07:25:16Z")

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I. Like. This. I. Think. It’s. Funny.

But then again, I haven’t been hanging around here much, generally.

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