[Fox Mulder]

Just weighing in on something brought up in my last Site Feedback post about Guest Posting, about the subject of thanks. I will quote mod Wetmac, who made a great point: " Life is too short to worry about 'likes' I get on an Internet forum." He is spot on. Through the years here at OCC, I've noticed a LOT of obsessive behaviour in the forum over "Thanks." I do look at Thanks...to judge the popularity of a post, not a measure of my self worth. My "I Love You Funny Face" thread was getting no thanks for a few days. I just saw that as a nudge to take my time and crack better jokes. Obviously, most users are too busy wanking to bother leaving you a Thanks. Perhaps a better stat to measure your thread's popularity is "views." If you get a million views, you've created something people enjoy. It doesn't make you special though...this is, after all, just an Internet porn site. It's supposed to be fun. All of social media makes people think a like or thanks is some sort of great achievement. I think the obsession with thanks is why we have the problem of guest posters dumping off-subject crap on the threads of others. Some guys see a thread getting lots of thanks and think they can and must grab a share of thanks for themselves by posting there. That's got to be their reason, especially since they are free to start their own threads. If hoarding thanks is your reason for posting on someone else's thread, or posting anything, anywhere, period...you need to move out of your mother's basement and get a life of your own. OCC Thanks and Facebook likes are not like painting kills on the fusilage of your WW1 aircraft. You are not a flying ace... and all your thanks don't add up to a flying fuck. If you get all pissy with people over this thanks thing, I feel sorry for you.