Thank you posts

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  Anoop Kumar

  It's already implemented by constraint of minimum 50chars.
  I think its enough to get rid of useless post.
  As far concern clicking rating option instead of saying thank you, Its user's conscious that why those buttons been given.
  Do you have any other suggestions?
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  Jeffrey Arulraj

  I found this which made me annoyed a person has trailled dots and just the words thank you so much
  
  Well I found this in SOns They put a warning to a user who does this that post gets flagged and after two or three warnings Negative markers are issued on the user who does it
  
  I think this can be brought here as those who really want to learn as true engineers will edify them selves
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  Abhishek Rawal

  The "thanksgiving folks" are most probably not regular CEans- infact they're not in position to be called "CEan",they're part-time leechers - They get information on what they want & then leave the site.Comes back if they want something more & leaves again.
  
  So,What I mean to say is - The thanksgiving replies by 'em in posts is okay & we really don't care.
  Our prime concern is that the regular & community supportive CEans shouldn't act like 'em & should strictly follow the CE protocols.
  As far as regular CEans don't do that,it is not big deal & unfortunately we won't be able to stop leechers by thanksgiving in thread as they never trolled the "official thanks-giving thread". 😀
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  Saying thank you could become a part of 'ratings'; and I believe we might just stop calling the system as 'ratings' system.
  
  The decision on this is still pending and 'Thank You' could just become a part of it.
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  [Prototype]

  The_Big_K

  Saying thank you could become a part of 'ratings'; and I believe we might just stop calling the system as 'ratings' system.
  
  The decision on this is still pending and 'Thank You' could just become a part of it.

  I think its not a good idea to embed anything more into the 'rating' system. Otherwise, time will come that everything that's required to be said will be present on the button's click, seizing the actual posting that could happen.
  
  Introduction of addition filter could solve the problem. The 50 chars limit is good one, but people will obviously try to bypass it. May be, we can apply numerous filter at the point where the post is being submitted. Few examples are listed.
  
  1. Periods more than 3 should be truncated to 3. Any other special symbol to be truncated to 1.
  2. The most classic way of bypassing as I've seen on other forums is writing "50 chars limit" at the end of the post. So this must be filtered provided the rest of the content (excluding the bypass statement) is more than 50 chars because we may use the same set of statement in our discussion and system must be able to filter at proper times only.
  3. Third strategy by the by-passers would be putting random junk like "asfdawrasdfasdfasf". We can restrict the size of a single word to some sensible amount alarming the system regarding the "meaninglessness" of the content.
  
  And few more such things like that which are hidden from the user.
  
  On the other hand, even with the introduction of thanks button, I don't think it'll be used by the people to whom its actually intended for. They will continue the same legacy.
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  Jeffrey Arulraj

  I think this is a valid point to ponder on. But even I feel to many cooks will spoil the whole thing so a no to the new Thank you button
  
  But as TSH says leechers are and can never be removed just like that Hope we get more contributors than Leechers
  
  Next up why not making the viewing of Introduction thread and other threads mandatory for new comers So that they will be aware of the rules here
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  lal

  Filtering, as prototype said, will prove to be effective in this case I guess. A 'thank you' isn't some thing bad though 😁
  
  Single time users or non regular users will not waste much time reading the forum rules and regulations. I don't think it should be made mandatory to view the rules and introduction before a new user is able to use CE. Its just like checking 'I accept the terms and conditions' while we install an application. No matter what, people wont spend much time on those things.
  
  May be, by filtering, to reduce the thread length and reduce meaning less entries a side bar or anything like that saying 'these people said thank you' be introduced. Very much like the rating system present now.
  
  Anyway, a 'thank you' do make the posters feel good - the one who helped and the one who asked for help.