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Originally Posted by MordyT
tbqh, thanks is for when someone helps you. it doesn't matter if he told you to restart your phone and that fixed your issue, the thanks button is supposed to replace the need to make a new posts saying "Thanks, that helped". The bar is just an idiotic, ok, a nice way of measuring how helpful a person is. Very flawed (as some huge helpers don't get thanked,) and it causes people to ask for thanks.
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I totally agree with your statement - telling someone to restart their phone is a 'technical contribution'.
The following examples of Thanked posts are what I was mentioning in my post and are not technical contributions:
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showpost.p...postcount=4884
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showpost.p...64&postcount=5
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showpost.p...7&postcount=44
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showpost.p...&postcount=123
Would you tell me that any of those 4 posts contribute technical knowledge to a technical forum, and should enhance one's reputation in a technical forum?
Again, I really don't care, but let's not pretend that "Reputation" necessarily means technical contributions. With so many people having a day-glo sig pimping and basically saying "PLEASE, PLEASE Thank Me For Just Being Me!", it's not gonna change.
Reputation for some (like Calk and others I mentioned) is a real gauge of contribution.
Reputation for many others is just a vote for popularity and inclusion.
Peace.