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[Scrupulous]

OK, go to your profile page, click "About Me" and scroll to the bottom, you will see a link to show all posts thanked by, or thanks given.

Mine :
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Total Thanks1,936
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Find all thanked posts by g8ina (links to https://forums.hexus.net/post_thanks...thanks&u=19448)
Find all posts thanked by g8ina (links to https://forums.hexus.net/post_thanks...r_gave&u=19448)

Thank you so much for that!

[Scrupulous]

Because a lot of the time when it happens, it generally points to someone using it to bump their post count (to get the required amount of posts for the Scan Free Delivery), or as a prelude to spamming (once the required amount of posts to reach the number to post links has been reached).

I understand how many people may be spammers or just trying to get something for free and others have mentioned the same thing to me already. What I don't understand is treating every newbie as a spammer or scrounger without knowing for sure that they are. Surely it is better to give everyone a chance and then treat them accordingly after they have wasted that chance. Just my opinion anyway. Thanks for the explanation.

[Ttaskmaster]

What I don't understand is treating every newbie as a spammer or scrounger without knowing for sure that they are. Surely it is better to give everyone a chance and then treat them accordingly after they have wasted that chance.

You wouldn't give someone a driving licence before they pass the driving test...

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I understand how many people may be spammers or just trying to get something for free and others have mentioned the same thing to me already. What I don't understand is treating every newbie as a spammer or scrounger without knowing for sure that they are. Surely it is better to give everyone a chance and then treat them accordingly after they have wasted that chance. Just my opinion anyway. Thanks for the explanation.

For myself at least, I tend to go by the assumption that old threads may be long out of date and thus inaccurate, so it would make more sense that a new member starts a new thread on whatever topic is relevant.

So from experience as both a member of various forums over the years, as well as running some of my own and administrating/moderating some others in the past, I tend to immediately view a bumped old thread with suspicion, but with the view that I'm happy to be proven wrong based upon reading it and the activity that follows it (and usually avoiding replying to actually accuse the poster of said suspicions - if it raises red flags that suggest it as highly likely of not being a genuine member, I'll report it as someone to possibly keep an eye on just in case if I'm a member).

By the way, the icon to the right of "Reply With Quote" on other people's posts is a multi-quote icon which allows you to select more than one other person's post to respond to in one reply, rather than making subsequent reply posts per quote.

Lastly, welcome to HEXUS.

[Scrupulous]

You wouldn't give someone a driving licence before they pass the driving test...

You wouldn't accuse them of drink driving without any proof either...

[Scrupulous]

For myself at least, I tend to go by the assumption that old threads may be long out of date and thus inaccurate, so it would make more sense that a new member starts a new thread on whatever topic is relevant.

So from experience as both a member of various forums over the years (as well as running some of my own and administrating/moderating some others in the past), I tend to immediately view a bumped old thread with suspicion, but with the view that I'm happy to be proven wrong based upon reading it and the activity that follows it (and usually avoiding replying to actually accuse the poster of said suspicions - if it raises red flags that suggest it as highly likely of not being a genuine member, I'll report it as someone to possibly keep an eye on just in case if I'm a member).

By the way, the icon to the right of "Reply With Quote" on other people's posts is a multi-quote icon which allows you to select more than one other person's post to respond to in one reply, rather than making subsequent reply posts per quote.

Lastly, welcome to HEXUS.

I will start new threads from now on as I can see that is more accepted here, I only just figured out how to do that also lol

Thanks for the multi-quote info, I will give that a go next time.

[Ttaskmaster]

You wouldn't accuse them of drink driving without any proof either...

But you would still pull them over and breathalyse them if their driving followed the same behaviour as all the drunk drivers you'd previously busted...

[Scrupulous]

But you would still pull them over and breathalyse them if their driving followed the same behaviour as all the drunk drivers you'd previously busted...

I will try not to act drunk from now on, I promise