What's with the thanks bias?

What do they gain by thanking those the high posters? Is it the same as sucking up to the rich guy in the neighborhood or are high posters able to pass some reputation to thankers as they can do in some other forums?

As for me, if I find a post that I think deserves thanking, I just thank it without looking at who the poster is or how long they've been a member, or how many thanks they already have.

That would be just too time consuming trying to keep track of deciding who to dole out thanks to or trying to do the math for an equation to thank people by.

When you see those long in depth posts you deem worthy of a thank, just thank them. Plain and simple.

You should also keep in mind what some people find to be in depth and informative, others may not. There are a boatload of marketers at all different experience levels here.

Oh, and happy thanking.

Terra

Very true!

Thanks bias? They have to make you laugh, as in heh, heh, heh. Or solve your problem or be generally useful information. But making you laugh is better, much better



THANKS

A little boy and his grandfather are raking leaves in the yard. The little boy finds an earthworm trying to get back into it's hole. He says, "Grandpa, I bet I can put that worm back in that hole". The grandfather replies, "I'll bet you five dollars you can't. It's too wiggly and limp to put back in that little hole".

The little boy runs into the house and comes back out with a can of hairspray. He sprays the worm until it is straight and stiff as a board. Then he puts the worm back into the hole. The grandfather hands the little boy five dollars, grabs the hairspray, and runs into the house. Thirty minutes later the grandfather comes back out and hands the little boy another five dollars. The little boy says, "Grandpa, you already gave me five dollars". The grandfather replies, "I know. That's from your grandma, and she says thanks".



ps - the thanks button is bottom right folks . . . . . thanks

This is hilarious - the person ranting about "thanks" has given less thanks to others than most posting in this thread.

I'm amazed to find people look at those numbers long enough to complain about them. I never think of it - they are just numbers.

I'm more likely to thank a newbie for a good answer or funny comment than I am to thank someone posting a long tutorial or lecture. That's my choice - and not the OP's business who I thank or why.

kay

I have noticed this as well.

We all want to feel appreciated and recognized for being someone special that matters in the forum. I think the thank you button does help with that. Or is it just me that gets that warm fuzzy feeling whenever someone gives me a "Thanks"?

I would go as far as saying that some members, (at least those of us with fragile egos and insecurity issues! ), become better members after receiving some "Thanks".

I'm serious. I have been part of some forums for more than a decade and with a few exceptions, most of the time I have been a lurker. WF is one of the few forums where I have felt that some of the stuff I have to say might actually be appreciated!

This is what I do as well.

Easy for you to say, who's already got more than 5000!! :p:p

Oh, Kurt, I think you know "what it is." Giving a "thanks" would rob spammers of the chance to make another worthless post just for backlinks / sig exposure.

It's not really too hard to understand why you don't get thanks from the SEO forum.

There are people that don't see anyone in the world but themselves. You'll find these types over-represented in the SEO forum.

These are the people that have no scruples, that will do anything to enrich themselves, that make comments in these forums like "everyone is just in it for the money."

Find some of the threads with topics like "Do all internet marketers lie?" and the posts that say "of course everyone lies" are made by people who rarely if ever thank anyone for anything. They care only for themselves.

In a word they are reprobates, rogues and scoundrels, and by their thanks, or lack thereof, shall ye know them.

I have recently discovered this secret and was going to share but will now keep it to myself if I'm not going to be 'thanked'.

SEOs have been trained by Google to not believe anything ... and to be completely thankless robots that find humanity a messy inconvenience.

maybe im missing something, but his post come off more innocuous than that, he's from what ive seen been thanked alot and made alot of posts and was simply asking a question

that being said, being new myself and slowly trying to contribute to the community with the limited knowledge i do have I dont expect to be thanked

i am guilty though of being thank happy on my first couple of post because frankly was quite surprised how helpful everyone was

Most of us are on this forum because we are trying to build businesses. We are trying to learn how to develop relationships with our customers, and learn how to increase our cashflow.

And/or we are trying to make sure the bills get paid, and want to make sure that our familiy members have something to eat, and a warm place to sleep at night.

We're not here to use this forum as a popularity contest. There are way more important things than that.

And if there are people who are favoring certain people over other people, does it really matter?

That's life, people just naturally form groups, and alliances, with those who make them laugh, or with those who think along the same lines as they do.

That's their choice and right.

THIS STUFF IS IMPORTANT

This thread is totally going to win if that post gets the most thanks

John

Ahh, but it makes for such interesting and entertaining reading.

Terra

I think we have a real shot at surrealism.

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Yes, that last one: that's the one I'm specifically awaiting.

Because, of course, I'm far too well-mannered to ask for the "Yah-Boo, Sucks" button.

Just in the spirit of this thread, would it be beneficial to have like/dont like option much like reddit where relevant or intriguing post make it the top and others fall down .. may cut down on the reduntant post and promote the better ones

i can see how this can be abused but would hope the community at large would make the right choice, may cut down on the same threads showing up without someone doing a search first

edit: being a marketing forum, do see how people commenting to promote sigs links wouldnt like it, easy one off comments on the current thread

edit2: just dawned on me thats why this is the free portion of the forum

The problem with that philosophy is that "good info" is in the eye of the reader. Not everyone will have the same definition for what is good, it depends on their level in that particular area.

Take the second portion of your post where you say the OP asked the hard question.

I don't consider that question hard at all. I think the hard question would be why the OP is questioning the lack of thanks given to some posts while in the approximate 2 years he's been here, he's only thanked 85 posts.

When you look at the staggering amount of posts made on the WF within a given year, his total is quite minute in comparison.

Um, not so.

If this were true, the number of thanks I've given would be a big fat zero.

Terra

Bill, One of the new crop of Vietnamese spammers that have been showing up lately. Hanoi, most likely, although one geolocator shows him as being in Dak Lak Province.

Over time, these things tend to go in waves. At one point, almost all the spam here was from Malaysia and the Philippines. Then the SEO spam migrated first to India, and then a part of it to Pakistan. Still a lot of both, and they're the bane of the SEO section. Whole threads pop up there with nothing but spammers talking past each other for the link juice.

Bangladesh is the biggest source of SEO garbage here outside of India.

Western Africa, especially Nigeria and Cote d'Ivoire, have remained pretty consistent. A few legit members amidst a flood of every kind of scammer imaginable.

What there are of fraudulent sales offers have always come mostly from the US, UK, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Indonesia. The Netherlands gets an honorable mention there. Sprinklings from every corner of the world, of course, but those are the big ones.

The fashion spam, electronics knockoffs, credit card dumps, and some of the cookie stuffers, come largely from China. The cookie stuffers probably just post through proxies or paid services there, though. The sources are probably US, UK, and Canadian affiliates. The various services involved could speak to that more authoritatively. They won't - and shouldn't - give me specifics on that stuff.

And we get mixed spams and scams from Eastern Europe, although not as much as we used to. I wouldn't buy software or themes that originated there, though, unless I knew the creator really well. Hackdoors abound.

The majority of the malevolent trolls are American, with the UK a close second. No other country is even in the same ballpark as those two on that score, although Dubai and the UAE are making moves.

We have positive, contributing members from nearly every country on the planet. The interesting thing isn't that there are crooks in every country so much as that the type of scammery tends to be relatively consistent within cultures.


Paul

wasnt that his point

Well, what you seem to be failing to get is that he has been here almost 2 years and only doled out 85 thanks himself. Seems like a pretty unthankful person to me. So, it's basically a pot > kettle situation.

In addition, each person has their own opinion on what is a valuable post and what is not a valuable post, so someone can blather on for 2,000 words and not say anything valuable to me, while others may think the OP walks on water.

I was thinking this.

Pretty often it's the threads at which I take a quick look and think "That won't still be here in an hour" that make it to second and even third pages some time the following day.

On the other hand, threads like this, with so many good points made, some of them quite amusingly, are just the kind that make you "run out of thanks for the day" and traipse off to Oklahoma to join Bill Platt's harmonica choir ...

You can get TWO DiGiorno pizzas for the price of 10,000 fake Facebook likes!

More money for pizza!

DiG <3 U

didnt know this part

What a disgusting joke, and to think that I laughed out loud when I read it. And I'm going to steal it too. Shame on me.

Thanks Given: 0

Yep, anyways :rolleyes:.

To address this hypothetical: to those who are worried about their thanks and feel "alienated" there is a simple solution.

Participate and don't be a dickweed.

Want to be in a clique? Interact with that clique. Does that clique reject you or worse insult and degrade you? Then they are dickweeds and you don't want to be part of that clique anyways.

It's social interaction at it's most basic people. Nobody is going to handle it for you, just like waiting around in high school for one of the cool kids to suddenly notice what a great person you were never worked out.

That's a possibility. When I first starting posting here, I didn't know anyone and all of my posts were ignored, even the ones that asked questions. It didn't stop me though and it didn't really bother me. I just got a weirder avatar and kept on posting and I have developed what I feel are friendships, albeit online where you never really meet face to face.

OMG!!!

I am all out of Thanks!!!

Dammit Paul... Fix This!!!

I wouldn't; but others might. If there is one thing I learned that is true about my youth: I still don't understand how to effectively handle power when given to me. So let's shelve this one for a few more years .

Would it be this one?

LOL, thats funny

Jeffery 100% :-)

I still have some and I'm squandering them