Thank You Button

[duc]

I saw this on another board somewhere. What it is, is that if someone helps you with code and they help you get it working or if someone else just found the code/other help, helpful, you click the Thank You button and a little bot named ThankYouBot would post #ofppl Have Said Thank You! and it would edit the # in that post accordingly.

It would cut down on Thanks posts, (could add a column for the number of thank yous given and remove the Star Rankings for threads) and could be used to show that if a thread has thank yous, it has very most likely been solved.

-duc

i have no life.

[brad jones]

If, or when, this forum upgrades to 3.0 of the forum software, we will add reputations. These allow you to click on a post and give the person a point. This is equivalent to saying 'thank you'.

I'm not sure when this forum will upgrade, but this is the closest thing on the plan to what you are asking.

Brad!

[The Hobo]

Brad -- Just wondering:

Was the reason this forum hasn't updated yet due to 3.0 being a resource hog? If so, do you know if vBulletin has resolved the issue or not? Is there some other reason we're waiting to update?

[brad jones]

Originally posted by The Hobo
Brad -- Just wondering:

Was the reason this forum hasn't updated yet due to 3.0 being a resource hog? If so, do you know if vBulletin has resolved the issue or not? Is there some other reason we're waiting to update?

It being a resource hog is the reason for the most part. Additionally, Jupitermedia has a large number of forums and thus not all are upgraded at the same time. We are starting to convert a couple of sites (not this one yet) to 3.0. (The sites being changed right now have specific issues that required 3.0 to resolve)

After running those for a while, if things go smoothly, then this site should have the chance to be upgraded as well.

Brad!