Adding thanks to comments. Be careful

[endofthelinefinally]

Your name associated with your thanks may not be the name you used on the thread. MN were supposed to have fixed this but it seems to be still happening. Unless of course all the thanks are coming from posters who are not actually on the thread. I suggest that everyone check their user name before thanking anyone just to be sure. Just a heads up in case anyone wasn't aware. Have a look at the thread in site stuff for further info. Sorry I can't do links on phone but it should be easy to find.

You can change for a one off post on a thread you've already posted on by typing one of your old usernames into the username box. That is obviously always deliberate though.

No one can see the thanks other than the posters themselves

If you have posted on any given thread already, the 'thanks' DOES come from the name that you posted on the thread with. So I'm really not sure what you're on about @endofthelinefinally

Yes I know, that’s why I was talking about having the number visible to everyone in my comment.

How on earth do you get the names of the people who have thanked you ???

I can't do that.

Click on the number.

I'm always willing to accept that MN have fucked up on anything relating to tech or privacy, but I don't think any of the logic on this thread about the Thanks function follows. I often thank without posting, and often have Thanks from people who haven't posted. MN is huge, I don't think that's surprising.

Agree it would be useful to display the number of likes but not the names.

What do you all think about having downvotes too? Or is that too much like Reddit?

I am addicted enough to the Thanks button. If I could downvote I might never sleep or eat again...

🤣

Downvotes is a horrible idea. Creates discord and disharmony. Creates nasty little cliques, and favouritism, and bullying. And definitely do NOT let anyone else see the 'thanks' except the recipient.

What makes me cringe, and howl with laughter in equal measures, is when someone is having an argument with another poster, and one of them says 'well the amount of THANKS I have got tells me I'm right!' 😆 Like 'I got 8 'thanks' so I am more right than you!' Lame! 😩

Thanks.
I learn something new every day

You just know there's going to be some weird saddos who're sitting with a spreadsheet and different coloured felt tips trying to identify thanks patterns 😂

Yes, they do create issues on Reddit. And you get really similar comments in the same thread, some upvoted, some downvoted 🤷‍♀️.

Most people use the "thanks" button as a "like" button. They're not actually thanking you for anything, they're just saying I like what you said. There are some people who "like" every post on certain threads. I really think people are overthinking it if they're looking at their thanks list and thinking some must be name changes just because they don't see a post by that name on the thread.

MN tech did say they would change it so that this would be the case. That is good to hear that they have done it. Thank you.

Might depend on how you access the site.

I can just click on the little thanks icon below my post and it comes up with a list of the people who have "thanked" me. But it also comes through in my notifications, which probably depends on however the settings are configured.

@OpizpuHeuvHiyo
Thanks (😁) for explaining.
It seems a bit pointless. One of the things I like about MN is that it doesn't have likes, down votes etc.
I find the AIBU voting annoying enough as that doesn't work on the app either.

Oh the voting was getting on my nerves so I deleted that option too.