Is this taking Wilding just a bit too far

Not me, but that thread is a very good example of absolute misuse of the "thanks" button. The stupider and less useful the comment, the more people hit the thanks button.


Strangely enough, the buyers were named Jones .... hmm!

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Keep an eye out for Kings and Shepherds....

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Tony Lee said:
Not me, but that thread is a very good example of absolute misuse of the "thanks" button. The stupider and less useful the comment, the more people hit the thanks button.
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But don't you want to know how many stupid people there are out there?
 
Well how about this:

They don't have a dog and a peg bag do they?

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Yes, chortle, chortle. That was a really useful post worth 57 thanks I'm sure ;)

That's why they removed the thanks here, it was a joke, gamed to death and had lost it's real purpose. Similar junk you can activate on forums includes "user ratings" which again is gamed to absurdity, usually by a couple of cliquey groups.

Interesting thread though. I think the people complaining about buyers camping for a few days should get a life and be glad they found a buyer. There's plenty of people who can't get a buyer. No matter what people have, they always take it for granted and want to moan :p


(Edit: Just noticed OP in the other thread did not know what a Pegbag was !!! Looks like Poppy's little jape was totally lost on them!)
 
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Interesting thread though. I think the people complaining about buyers camping for a few days should get a life and be glad they found a buyer. There's plenty of people who can't get a buyer. No matter what people have, they always take it for granted and want to moan
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Yes, I guess the buyers should have phoned ahead, but maybe they didn't have contact details. Regardless of the buyers' minor failing, the sellers are a pretty miserable pair aren't they. I'm surprised they don't rush out and get a penny in the slot lock for their dunny to teach the buyers an even bigger lesson in hospitality.
 
Tony Lee said:
Yes, I guess the buyers should have phoned ahead, but maybe they didn't have contact details. Regardless of the buyers' minor failing, the sellers are a pretty miserable pair aren't they. I'm surprised they don't rush out and get a penny in the slot lock for their dunny to teach the buyers an even bigger lesson in hospitality.
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It was noticable that they turned up in a caravan. It later turned into a Motorhome.

The guy gave consent to park. Then complained not to the caravanner but to the world.
 
Mmmm.....you do all realise that the whole thing is a joke, don't you?
 
John H said:
Mmmm.....you do all realise that the whole thing is a joke, don't you?
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Darn, our devious plot is exposed. Yes John, it was all set up by the anti-Thanks-button activists. Trouble is some idiots went too far.
 
Thanks button

When a thread is that long, people hit the thanks button to find where they have read up to. Maybe should be called something else - but, hey, who cares, lighten up - New Years Resolution, to not be so grumpy, and think positive.

The saga is still ongoing - True or Not, it made a lot of people laugh & still is.

Maybe the humour of it didn't translate to a lot of people but I think its funny - you could just see it as part of a sit com.
 
The thread is 22 pages long now.

It' clearly a spoof after you read past the first couple of pages.

They post a picture of the "touring caravan" in their front garden:

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Hmmm... their front garden appears to have an 8 foot high chainlink fence with concrete posts and three strands of barbed wire on the top! Perhaps they should have spent a second or two longer getting a more appropriate image from google image search!
 
jennyp19 said:
When a thread is that long, people hit the thanks button to find where they have read up to. Maybe should be called something else - but, hey, who cares, lighten up - New Years Resolution, to not be so grumpy, and think positive.

The saga is still ongoing - True or Not, it made a lot of people laugh & still is.

Maybe the humour of it didn't translate to a lot of people but I think its funny - you could just see it as part of a sit com.
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If we had a thanks button, I'd press it now! There's no in point getting uptight about something that is so obviously a spoof.
 
John H said:
If we had a thanks button, I'd press it now! There's no in point getting uptight about something that is so obviously a spoof.
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Don't you think its just plain polite to press a thanks button - it gives people an idea whether a post has been read and worth posting anything else - more friendly somehow.
 
The reference to a 'dog and a peg bag' refers to the fact that Roma Gypsies tend to sell pegs door to door, and the Irish Traveler scum tend to come complete with a dog.
The photo posted on the thread was of the camper whilst it was in the local Police pound, not whilst it was on the home-sellers driveway.
 
jennyp19 said:
Don't you think its just plain polite to press a thanks button - it gives people an idea whether a post has been read and worth posting anything else - more friendly somehow.
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I don't think that is what a thanks button is meant to be for in my humble opinion. If you read a post and like the thread, then add something useful to the thread yourself. It's possible to see how many people have read the thread by looking at the "read" number without using the thanks.

I think the thanks button is supposed to be used to encourage really useful or funny posts from members so it rewards people who post well and generally makes the whole forum more worthwhile.

Unfortunately it is often used, especially among groups of cliquey forum mates to reward "Haha, I agree, LOL" type posts made by other members of the cliquey group.
 
jennyp19 said:
Don't you think its just plain polite to press a thanks button - it gives people an idea whether a post has been read and worth posting anything else - more friendly somehow.
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Yes I do - and, as I said above, I cannot understand why some people are getting so agitated over something which doesn't matter - especially since the thread in question is so obviously a spoof. If you don't like the "thanks" button you don't have to use it - so why does it matter if others are using it as a shortcut to saying "I agree with you" ? Even if others are using it as a competition to see who can get the most thanks, I say again, why does it matter?
 
To answer John, it matters because the concept is to encourage useful and funny posts thus improving the forum.

If the forum fills up with people gaming thanks numbers on "hello" and "LOL, I agree" posts in every section, then the forum becomes unusable. People complain they can't find things amongst pages of garbage posts.
 
Firefox said:
To answer John, it matters because the concept is to encourage useful and funny posts thus improving the forum.

If the forum fills up with people gaming thanks numbers on "hello" and "LOL, I agree" posts in every section, then the forum becomes unusable. People complain they can't find things amongst pages of garbage posts.
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1. There is no doubt the thread in question is amusing, so if the thanks button is there to encourage funny posts it has succeeded

2. Not having a thanks button does not mean that you only get sensible contributions! As Jenny said, "lighten up".
 
Firefox said:
Well how about this:

Yes, chortle, chortle. That was a really useful post worth 57 thanks I'm sure ;)

That's why they removed the thanks here, it was a joke, gamed to death and had lost it's real purpose. Similar junk you can activate on forums includes "user ratings" which again is gamed to absurdity, usually by a couple of cliquey groups.

Interesting thread though. I think the people complaining about buyers camping for a few days should get a life and be glad they found a buyer. There's plenty of people who can't get a buyer. No matter what people have, they always take it for granted and want to moan :p


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Nope!

The 57 thanks were for referring to another forum thread , also about a Mr Jones who was selling his house, which had the buyers bringing their deceased dog along for burial in the vendor's garden. This was another hilarious thread which many of us over on MSE think was written by the same person using a different username.


"James1968

The reference to a 'dog and a peg bag' refers to the fact that Roma Gypsies tend to sell pegs door to door, and the Irish Traveler scum tend to come complete with a dog.
The photo posted on the thread was of the camper whilst it was in the local Police pound, not whilst it was on the home-sellers driveway. "

Also nope! (see above)


The chainlink fence in the photo also mentioned here was from the pound, not the poster's garden.



Oh yes, and we had a great laugh about your thread here too :p. :D
 
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