SDMB pet peeves

[EllisDee]

*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.

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:

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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I. Like. This. I. Think. It’s. Funny.

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