For all DM's out there

[Pseudonym]

When I am king of the thank you count I shall remember the little people who helped me along the way and woe be to those who stood on the side of the deposed Dorganath!

[Polak76]

@Polak76 I get the feeling he wants to pass Dorganath's count *grins*

I'd go as far as saying it's his single main goal in life!

[ycleption]

Hmm is there a way to give a negative thanks? Something like.... "this post was inane and utterly uninformative. I therefore take away one of the poster's thanks by pressing this button"?
Dorg, you seriously should implement something like that... so I can find every one of your posts and de-thank them in order to aid Pseudnonym's cause.

[Marswipp]

Off topic! Off topic! ... :p

[Dorganath]

Hmm is there a way to give a negative thanks? Something like.... "this post was inane and utterly uninformative. I therefore take away one of the poster's thanks by pressing this button?"
Dorg, you seriously should implement something like that... so I can find every one of your posts and de-thank them in order to Pseudnonym's cause.

These forums actually do support a "Reputation" system, where you can give (or take) reputation points to (or from) other users.  The more reputation you have, the greater the effect of giving (or taking).  I was on another forum that uses the system a few years ago, and it rather quickly degenerated into a bone of contention among the users.  Some would practically beg for the points for what they thought was a really good post.  Some would get downright cranky if someone took rep points from them for having a negative opinion of their post. People got into fights about those silly rep points.

Anyway, that feature is disabled. Prolly going to stay that way too.  

Besides, it's much nicer to stick with the positive than the negative, right?

And yep....waaaaaay off-topic.

[ycleption]

Aww... but flame wars based on who is the best forum members are so much fun and are so totally what Layonara is all about...

And clearly, we need to institute some kind of system that recognizes Pseud's forum dominance.

(/my facetious off-topic commentary)

Seriously, the DM's and other people working on Layo are pretty awesome, and my hat is off to all of you, whether working behind the scenes, or answering questions on IRC and the forums, or throwing impromptus in front of us or....

There needs to be a place where people can write complaints and feel that they are heard, yes, but a random "thank you" thread is valuable as well, and helps build community goodwill: what Layo really is based on.

[lonnarin]

These forums actually do support a "Reputation" system, where you can give (or take) reputation points to (or from) other users.  The more reputation you have, the greater the effect of giving (or taking).  I was on another forum that uses the system a few years ago, and it rather quickly degenerated into a bone of contention among the users.  Some would practically beg for the points for what they thought was a really good post.  Some would get downright cranky if someone took rep points from them for having a negative opinion of their post. People got into fights about those silly rep points.

Anyway, that feature is disabled. Prolly going to stay that way too.  

Besides, it's much nicer to stick with the positive than the negative, right?

And yep....waaaaaay off-topic.

We should institute a system where one can give both thanks and monkey bites.  I would be king of the monkey bites...