The "Thanks" comments

I hope I wasn't unfollowed. *sniffle sniff* Haha. I honestly forgot you can change your alerts for review comments and that kind of thing, though. I do find some comments frustrating, but it's not bad enough for me to change my alerts at this point. I mean, I really don't even have that many reviews (and the first ten or so are crap that I wish I could delete, so nobody comments on those anyway), so it's not a problem. And...now I'm rambling. Haha. Sorry. It's late and I'm tired. I guess I'm saying that I understand where you're coming from. The comments can be a little annoying, but I really think most people do it with good intentions.

Of course you were not unfollowed Zen! I do not see you whinning and complaining about being thanked. Also, you always leave great comments, so no one can whine about your comments.
I for one am not bothered by being thanked for a job well done and can't for the life of me understand all this complaining about a thank you comment.
Like I said tho' , some good has come out of all this snobbishness. all this whinning has made people come up with better comments, but can we drop it now? Isn't enough enough?

I guess not since there are more newbies coming everyday who do not know that certain reviewers do not want to be thanked.

To me, the people complaining sound like prima donnas who do not want to be bothered, so I think everyone should leave them alone if thats what they want. But instead of complaining constantly, why do they not unset comment alerts? Thats the bottom line really.
Sorry if I sounded harsh on my last post on this thread, after reading 20 other threads with this subject not even the subject being the point of the thread at hand I just had had enough.

That is very true! I always smile (very big!) when I get ANY comment, even a "thank you." I take my thank you's very seriously. Lol If it encourages people and if it's sincere, I think it's ok to do. I always appreciate any time taken out to thank, ask a question, or even say Hi.

Go WET ONE! Lol. I'm right here with ya!

Is the name calling in this post really necessary? Calling it at rant at the end doesn't excuse this behavior!

I tried very hard to word my thread opener carefully so that I was suggesting a positive solution instead of simply complaining. I suggested the addition of a thank button, which would hopefully kill off the thanks comments and leave the actual comments open for real questions or suggestions. This is constructive criticism, not complaining. I find your tone in this comment pretty offensive, actually. Aren't these forums supposed to be a respectful, friendly place?

I personally LOVE responding to questions I get on reviews, and yes, some comments on old reviews are in fact, actual questions. You say that this is the fault of the people "complaining" about thank you comments for not disabling notifications on comments...but tell me, how does one filter out the "thanks" comments from the actual questions with some function on this site? There is no way that they are differentiated, so there's no option other than just turning off all comment alerts. When I write a review I believe it is my responsibility to answer follow up questions about the review or product while I am still an active reviewer on this site, even if the review is years old.

Next time, please, take a moment to check your negativity and decide if its really necessary.

You know, I think I might've already posted in this discussion a while back, but I saw it on the forums again and have kind of different feelings.

A while back, I'm not sure if it was this exact discussion or not, but I remember posting that it did not bother me and that I appreciated their efforts... Yea well.... Now that I have been here longer, I feel a bit differently.

I never got emails letting me know when I got a comment until recently. They finally started coming in. Now I can really see where you guys were coming from!

While I truly appreciate anytime people take their time to read my reviews, I also see the regular "thanks" or a damn smiley face and nothing else as comments. Everday, I click every email that says I have a comment and go read it. It does get time consuming having to do that when the person is only point farming. I didn't realize before that people would do this for points. It makes it tough to weed out those comments from the ones who truly read the review and had something to say.

It feels almost like the ones who always do that are just using your reviews for their own points. It's obvious they didn't read a single word.

The thing that bugs me most about it is 1. most of us work very hard on our reviews so it can feel like they're going unappreciated when someone uses the review for points. 2. When someone comments on my reviews, I do my best to go message them and tell them thanks for reading and sometimes chat a little more about the product I had reviewed. So when those same people just leave meaningless "thanks" comments, it makes it even tougher to weed through and get to the ones who really took the time to read and leave a kind or helpful comment.

yeah lol. i get a lot of thanks for review or just "thanks". gets annoying