Oooooooohh, I likey colours and numbers, even better, coloured numbers
I'll be honest, its nice to see people respect a person for the work they may put into something on here, whether it be me, you, other members, I wouldn't call myself a self lover as you so well put it, but I'm all for politeness, courteousy & respect for other humans (maybe maturity has take hold these days) & I personally have gone to thank people in the last 4 days or so & thought, balls its gone.
Have a day off, dude. I was poking fun (in my opening). You weren't specifically called anything, and when I got down to business-proper, you'll see I began with "seriously though,..."; however if I touched a nerve, please accept my apologies.
I have watched this system for a while and the effects it has had on the forum & I truly believe it has created more harmony between members
I'd love to see empirical data.
just a quick click of a button shows someone appreciates the info provided
I'm pretty sure if someone really wants to show appreciation, they will; and it could be argued that "just a quick click of a button" is a fairly easy way out.
to lose it I think is a mistake, so if you can integrate it again, it would be appreciated.
It wasn't a mistake; it was done entirely on purpose, for the reasons set out above. Likewise, before you even mentioned it, our options for trying to reinstate it, or somehow include the stats elsewhere, were assessed - also set out above.
Question though, doesn't the likes system run along the same systems as the thanks, which is being left working as such
No.
the likes system does seem to allocate data to profiles etc showing whose liked who, which thread/post liked on etc
If someone likes your post, you receive a notification in the drop-down up top (as I'm sure you probably know); the only difference is that it isn't plastered all over the postbit (the summary of profile elements beneath your name in a post), nor tracked in your detailed profile.
In other words, when someone 'likes' your post - you're notified i) that someone appreciates your contribution, and ii) exactly which contribution they appreciate. If it's not a ******* contest, I can't see how that falls meaningfully short.
are we running into scalability issues as in need better hardware/hosting to be able to handle the sheer size of the site & data added on an hourly basis, just trying to gauge if there is a fix, interms of can be resolved by upgrading something to be able to handle the intensity/pressure put on the systems in use?
As of this week, we've more than doubled our server capacity, with various workloads now spread across multiple machines; that constitutes a significant investment of both money, and time - in fact (as you might've noticed the odd hiccup), we're still not finished with the time part, and there are a some creases still to be ironed out - this is what I was driving at when I said "we're knee-deep in more critical stuff at the moment".
To answer your specific query, yes, we could probably just switch the 'Thanks' system back on if we threw enough hardware and bandwidth at it, but it seemed a bit over the top to buy IBM and Cable & Wireless to keep it going, particularly when:
a) Turning it off might not be permanent anyway - again, we're already considering ways to reintegrate it.
b) As demonstrated, the likes system isn't all that much different - on the points which matter.
As regards your links:
1) It's practically a mirror of this discssion. Link that to this if you like.
2) I believe Adam has been discussing this with you.
3) Honestly have no idea - hate facebook with a passion, don't use it, and consequently know next to nothing about it
(I will however speak to my facebook-fluent colleauge) I'd wager that a work-around (if it's a royal PITA) would be to a) use a better browser (IE? Your background's IT, right? You should be ashamed
), b)
for the moment, see if disabling the link between ASN and your facebook account improves things, c) a combination of the two.
Much love,
R
