Thumbs up & thumbs down: a question ..

Un huh. You're behind again.

If you post on a thread at all, that's an automatic thumbs up. If you manually, so to speak, thumb it up, well, we can't have you voting twice, can we?

What happened, good threads lost out by being thumbed down one time, and noone was bothering to thumb it up. They changed it to eliminate this distortion.

I don't do either, by the way, unless my only purpose is to get a thread out of my sight. I do that to most of the word game type things, and it doesn't mean I really dislike them; I'm just tired of seeing them on my screen.

So it seems, Roger! I'm behind again!

I honestly hadn't noticed that simply posting to a thread meant an automatic thumbs up! (Guess who hasn't been paying attention!)

So, I guess this means, if I post to a thread, but it's not a thread that I'd particularly want to give a thumbs up ... that I then must give it a thumbs down to make my real intention clear?

...thanks for the thumbs up, Roger!

Erm. . . . All I did was reply, but you knew that, of course.

Yes, but I think that if you reply, it stays on your list of viewable threads on new posts. That is, replying carries greater weight than a thumb down. That's what I think.

Well yes, but I can also choose to see it as a thumbs up!

That's interesting. I would have thought that a thumbs down would put the thread title in the "below the viewing threshold" category. Now I know different!

Love the little "selected answer" symbol:



But don't often get the opportunity to use it.
I should ask more questions!

I only use the thumbs down to collapse all the game threads that show up on the in box each ,morning. So I really dont use the feature much.

If I can see someone's gone to some trouble, or created a particularly interesting thread, then I do like to give them some credit, show my appreciation, with a thumbs up. Besides, they might create even more interesting threads! Which we sure could do with at the moment!

How do the rodents kick in the "featured answer" thungy.

Sorry, farmer?
You talking about roger's post?

yup, neat little surprise in being a "Featured Answer" Guess Ill have ta clean up my language to be considered.

Yeah, it's pretty nifty, isn't it?
But this feature is only available on threads in which you "ask a question" (as opposed to "start a discussion").

you can also thumb-up a thread by tagging it...