# Showing thanks on the Dope **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 15, 2021, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/showing-thanks-on-the-dope/937912 "2021-03-15T04:36:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 50
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2021, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/showing-thanks-on-the-dope/937912/50 "2021-03-16T03:31:16Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > Can’t understand reluctance to just post a ‘thank you‘ in the thread. They are always pleasant to read, it never ‘slows?’ the thread or conversation down in any way that I have ever detected. As several others have also mentioned! I’ve certainly never seen anyone remark or slag anyone for doing so. > > I think the OP needs to reexamine that thinking and adjust their attitude maybe. OK, maybe you can convince me of how to adjust my attitude. I went to look at your post history to see how many times you posted the word thanks. Anyone can do this. (Search icon, @username, thanks. . then hit options and sort by latest in the right hand drop down) For all of 2020 and 2021 so far, there are 20 posts that are shown. Maybe I didn’t catch all of them, but several of them were actually ‘no thanks’ so maybe that will even out. But just using that number, that’s a little over one ‘thanks’ a month. Just as another reference, in just 2021, I did the same search on myself and found 14 posts. That’s like one a week, and I’ve often thought of adding a thanks but didn’t want to add more to the thread. If, one day for some reason, you found that your fellow posters made you feel more grateful than once a month, how would you express that? And what would happen if everyone here felt more like their fellow posters were more worthy of thanks on a regular basis? Yes, I agree with you that thanking someone once a month doesn’t add to slowing down communication. It also doesn’t add to poster appreciation much. My OP was about adding poster appreciation in a way that doesn’t hinder the thread. > [@TriPolar](#): > > This. What’s the big deal? We’re supposed to be talking to each other, it’s a normal part of a conversation. Thanks for linking this thread to another one. (Yay to Discourse for alerting me to it!) > [@Secret Apartment Discovered](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-apartment-discovered/937918/29): > > Since you already [slowed down the thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/showing-thanks-on-the-dope/937912) by saying thank you, I’ll slow it down more by saying “You’re welcome”. But I think @ThelmaLou outdid me in the very next post: I find it telling that you actually commented on a thank you. If it were an every day occurrence, I think people wouldn’t have time to do that. I also did a search on how many thanks you posted in threads. For all of 2020 and 2021, it was 33 including these posts. On average, that’s a little more than 2 thanks a month. Same question as above. What would you do if there were more posts you felt grateful about? What should others do if they felt like more posts were worthy of thanks? > [@mordecaiB](#): > > You are very mistaken about this. We lost a bunch of posters over the transition to Discourse. Most didn’t even try to switch over, just stopped posting. Pull up a thread from a year ago and see how many posters have a last posting date of June 2020. There were some posters who left in June 2020. But I’m not convinced that many left because they didn’t like Discourse. Certainly not anywhere near the number who said they would. A couple weeks back, I did a search on the word Discourse and then looked at the threads that had something to say about it. Then for every person who was negative about Discourse, I looked to see if they were still posting. Most were still posting. (A few did leave) Ironically, it was those people who said they liked Discourse that are some of the ones who wandered away. I have a theory about that, but it’s probably a discussion for another thread. > [@codinghorror](#): > > And a reply is fine if you have something add on top of “hey cool I liked and appreciated that post” to add… but often I don’t, I just want to say … “hey cool I liked that post”. hey cool I liked that post I also appreciate you sticking around to remove spam. I really liked the shortcut to the drafts link. I have drafts from last November! that I’m still going to post. 🙂 Thanks for hanging around to answer questions about Discourse. I’d also be happy to see you posting in other places too. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/showing-thanks-on-the-dope/937912)._