Apology accepted. Thank you.

Quote Originally Posted by Jerhart View Post
I know it was suggested in the pass, but maybe it isn't tied to the rep. It doesn't count towards anything other than a "thanks" count.
It was just so the first couple of years that we had the feature. And the moment it was installed, an already pretty slow rep-gaining process turned glacial. So we mixed it up and added a point of rep to the thanks button. Now folks can actually SEE progress in their rep score.

Which way is better? I seriously believe there is no right answer. No matter what we do, someone will say it's not "fair" and won't be happy with it. And...if we suddenly turned off that rep point tied to the thanks button...everyone who signs up in the future will be tied to the glacially slow system while their peers who've been here longer have tons of rep due to old thanks. And we'd be having this whole argument all over again.