Quote Originally Posted by alkie View Post
As for your suggestion and this is just my personal viewpoint here, (admin of course have the final say on all matters in here), I have seen this idea adopted on many of the forums I visit and I find it a little distracting and it think it has a tendency to discourage members leaving any comments at all.
It's too easy to click on a "thanks button" and move on, rather than leave something a little more constructive.

We like to think of this place as a sharing community, which shares not only material but feedback, views and comments on other peoples efforts and a "thanks button" system might detract members from doing just that.
In my opinion, those which actually want to provide feedback, will still write a reply.

The thanks feature mainly adresses users which do not reply at all, or just post one-word-replies.

A thread with 100+ views, no replies, but 50 thanks looks one hell of a lot different for the original poster than without.

But the final call is ofc. up to you guys.
I can just share my point of view and what I encountered on the forum(s) I run with the thanks feature enabled.