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Originally Posted by Dalquaz

I post almost exclusively in the ENF section, and a good chunk of what I post is original work or scans of items I've paid for. Yet the rate of thanks per view can be almost shocking.

For instance my recent post: . The picture has currently 1719 views and 42 thanks. That's only 1 in 40 people who bother to click thanks. Not that I expect everyone who opens my picture to love it and click "thanks" every time. But 1 in 40 is a poor rate. Even on a very popular post I made in the same thread with 193 thanks, one of the two photos has 4317 views. That's not even 1 in 20 for what I believe to be one of my better posts in my "career" here at OCC.

I don't mean to be sour on OCC though. Dognheat's post is excellent and enumerates many reasons why OCC is so boss. And I don't look at "thanks" as something to stoke my ego. But it's a nice way to see what posts people are really into. Strangely, there also seems to be a type of member: "chronic thankers" as I will call them. These are the members who almost never post, but seem to always be online with their finger ready to click thanks on every post, almost no matter the quality. In a way, that's not any better than not thanking, because the "thanks" loses the impact. I try to reserve my thanks for posts that obvious work went into, feature something very attractive to me, original work, a comment I agree with, etc.

What fraction would be enough?