Quote Originally Posted by Maltz View Post
How about changing Thanks to red or something more obvious and perhaps a passionate icon? Or move it to the right so people notice it it while clicking reply.
We'll take another look at the system, see what we can do. I agree that the current system is not perfect.

Another way to encourage people to give thanks is to have a "thanks received" and "thanks given" counter for each member.
We tried that on one of our test versions. A lot of people complained because they felt it was too close to a reputation system.

Sainty contributors who require no thanks or acknowledgement only come once every century.
Precisely. One simple "Thank you!" can mean a lot - there's a reason why it's considered a vital part of polite conversation out in the real world. Too often people's efforts go unrecognised, people don't take the time to post some thanks. The button system was supposed to help counter this by making it possible for people to show appreciation without feeling like spammers.

Quote Originally Posted by Tiaexz View Post
I am unfortunately not the best person to go into details as I have been merely "Looking over the shoulder" so to speak. But I believe we are assembling effectively a "Modders Toolbox" of sorts, such as offering File Sharing services. @frogbeastegg is person who should probably speak about this.
That one died a slow death due to lack of interest amongst those we hoped would use it.