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	Texrat	2009-10-20 , 17:45
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Originally Posted by RevdKathy

I think my suggested solution might be to leave the 'thanks' system in place, but take it out of the Karma calculation altogether. Then implement something else on the board which is a 'Karma point', but which takes more effort, maybe even a 'give reason' (such as you have to do for reporting a post - I'm running out of ways to say 'spam' creatively!)

I happen to think that simply lopping off a percentage of Thanks to handle expected "noise" resolves the frivolous Thanking-- but I am intrigued by the idea of having users enter a rationale.

Maybe the answer is two-fold: allow Thanks with no comment, and it has no Karma value. Any Thanks with an accompanying comment (which could be hidden or contained in a dropdown list) adds to Karma.

EDIT: not trying to steal RevdKathy's thunder-- looks like we were essentially talking about the same thing in different ways, so please give her credit.

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