What is your "Thanks per Post Average (TPA)" on this Forum?

[mrsamsonite]

I realize the OP mentioned his post was to been in a joking manner. They also made jokes about the space shuttle Challenger.
Fact is, I actually do believe, some would rather cut off their click finger than to scroll over there and click "thanks", and will go to great measures to avoid it. Although I find that rather comical at times, I also believe at the end of the day, what's most important was what you gave, and not just what you got.
There was a university study done not too long ago which documented the differences in obituaries over the last hundred years. They found a hundred years ago the obits mostly spoke of a mans character, the things he had contributed and the deeds he had done, where today they were found to mostly speak of a mans wealth and possessions.
There were also some worthy mentions, in another big book, of an extremely thankless generation, being near the end of our thankless road, and sometimes I wonder just how far away that day can actually be.
Although it is highly visible here, this certainly isn't restricted to SMF or the scrapping community, but goes the world over, and altho it's led mostly by the "developed" countries, if you look at the countries where there is little, and what little they had, has been taken away, such as the recent typhoon victims in the Philippines, and other places where both natural or manmade disasters have ravaged their lives and their world. They'd be thankful for the crumbs that fell from our plates, and that's even more reason to be thankful for what we have, and that we live in such a land as what we do, and not so worried about what's the score, or how much more can i get, before we reach the end of that road.
I truly do believe one day the more important question will be, not how much did you get, but instead, how much did you give.

It is interesting where this thread has gone and has been unexpected. What was originally intending as a light-hearted Joke some have taken as a serious topic about thankfulness. I feel some seem to imply clicking the thank button has some kind of link to a man's true character and how thankful they are in real life, I disagree. Bear seems to imply that if you arent clicking "thanks" you are part of the "thankless generation" or someone that is more interested talking about possessions in obituaries rather than character.



For the record I am very grateful for this web forum its contents and the people that contribute to it. It has helped me get my business to where it is now. I think that the thank button is a small way to show one's appreciation. I dont use it much and feel that a much better way to show appreciation is to share the buyers you find, new techniques, tools, answer questions that other members have, responding in a timely manner, taking the time to take pictures for your post, share links, make videos, give thorough answers, share new ideas, and give your time to the web forum.

[Bear]

It is interesting where this thread has gone and has been unexpected. What was originally intending as a light-hearted Joke some have taken as a serious topic about thankfulness. I feel some seem to imply clicking the thank button has some kind of link to a man's true character and how thankful they are in real life, I disagree. Bear seems to imply that if you arent clicking "thanks" you are part of the "thankless generation" or someone that is more interested talking about possessions in obituaries rather than character.

For the record I am very grateful for this web forum its contents and the people that contribute to it. It has helped me get my business to where it is now. I think that the thank button is a small way to show one's appreciation. I dont use it much and feel that a much better way to show appreciation is to share the buyers you find, new techniques, tools, answer questions that other members have, responding in a timely manner, taking the time to take pictures for your post, share links, make videos, give thorough answers, share new ideas, and give your time to the web forum.

Mrsamsonite, I believe it is more interesting how you have adapted my message to be a personal attack on yourself, and the forum, when it was purely observational, as I even specified it to be, not of yourself or the forum, but of the world as a whole. You keep claiming that your formula was a joke, but what were your words there? In your original post, this a formula for what??

How many "thanks" do you average for each

post. My TPA is 2.35
How effective are your posts?

How effective are your jokes? Maybe we need your formula for that one too.

I recall many threads discussing one who spoke only in the third party, as you have done here to me, and I could find you plenty of quotes on that if I cared to. I never mentioned you personally sam, or your post, but spoke only in the general direction that the thread had came from and gone.

But since now we're here

I think that the thank button is a small way to show one's appreciation. I dont use it much

There is definitely a thankless generation sam, of which you definitely seem to be a part, and it's your own words which seem to betray you.
Until your words can match your deeds, sam, don't dump them on me