Points and Reputation: How to get the Thanks button to show

by jkh August 20th 2020, 2:08 pm

On this forum you have a thanks button

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Even though I have the Thanks button activated in the admin panel...

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...it never shows up in the topics. Points and Reputation: How to get the Thanks button to show 2118789120

Shouldn't it show up alongside these buttons like it does on this forum?

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I know I haven't got the 'activate reputation system' ticked at the moment (I've only just done it to get rid of the green thumbs up thingy) but the 'Thanks button' has never shown up even with the 'activate reputation system' ticked anyway.

What am I doing wrong?

by TonnyKamper August 20th 2020, 3:07 pm

Do you have setup the button pics for it in the ACP?

by jkh August 20th 2020, 3:34 pm

Ah.

Nope

Thank you! thumleft

by jkh August 20th 2020, 3:51 pm

OK, so I've done that and the buttons still don't show...even with reputation/points etc activated and ticked.

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by YoshiGM August 20th 2020, 4:09 pm

The thanks button only appears for the topic author. So, if you are reading a topic from another member, that will be the reason.

by jkh August 20th 2020, 4:18 pm

YoshiGM wrote:The thanks button only appears for the topic author. So, if you are reading a topic from another member, that will be the reason.

Here's a topic author - no Thanks button

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And one of my own topics - no Thanks button

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by YoshiGM August 20th 2020, 4:23 pm

I saw in the first screenshot, that you don't have activated the reputation system.
You must activate the reputation full to show the thanks button, because when you push in the button, it adds 3 points or what you want. (In the reputation management tab)

by jkh August 20th 2020, 4:27 pm

Disregard ! I can see it now when I scroll down the page - and it works Points and Reputation: How to get the Thanks button to show 609562

Thank you again everyone :rose:

eta: actually I can only see it in some topics. Confused

by **skouliki** August 20th 2020, 7:56 pm

It will appear only for the author of the thread.

you can read this tutorial https://help.forumotion.com/t38434-reputation-system-evaluation-thanks-button

by **SLGray** August 20th 2020, 8:31 pm

The thanks button will only appear to tjhe author of the topic and only in the replies , not the first post. Also you can only thank one [post per topic.

by jkh August 20th 2020, 8:33 pm

skouliki wrote:It will appear only for the author of the thread.

you can read this tutorial https://help.forumotion.com/t38434-reputation-system-evaluation-thanks-button

That's very useful thank you.

From that link: Why don't I get this? Is it because I've got a green thumb instead?

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by **SLGray** August 20th 2020, 8:42 pm

Correct. You have modified the reputation system.

by jkh August 20th 2020, 8:48 pm

SLGray wrote:Correct. You have modified the reputation system.

Sorry to be a pain, but where would I have modified it? Would it be a javascript, template or a CSS code?

How would I get rid of the green thumb and replace it with this? Sometimes when a thread is loading I can briefly see that red bar but then it disappears.

Also, if I can't see a Thanks button on an authors thread, how can I thank him? For instance, on this thread: https://jillhavern.forumotion.net/t16901-the-political-spectrum-have-your-say

by **SLGray** August 20th 2020, 9:01 pm

That is the default system. Just remove whatever you added to get the green thumb. Did you exactly add it or someone else?

by **Ape** August 20th 2020, 9:02 pm

It's this one you have installed >> Improve the reputation system so it counts votes if you remove this then your thumbs up will go away and the line would show like the one you just posted

my advice is keep it as it is.

by jkh August 20th 2020, 9:06 pm

SLGray wrote:That is the default system. Just remove whatever you added to get the green thumb. Did you exactly add it or someone else?

I don't know what I did to get the green thumb Laughing

Also, if I can't see a Thanks button on an authors thread, how can I thank him?

For instance, on this thread I can't see a Thanks button: https://jillhavern.forumotion.net/t16901-the-political-spectrum-have-your-say

I'll understand all this at some point, I promise!

by **SLGray** August 20th 2020, 9:14 pm

Did you start the topic?

by jkh August 20th 2020, 9:16 pm

APE wrote:It's this one you have installed >> Improve the reputation system so it counts votes if you remove this then your thumbs up will go away and the line would show like the one you just posted

my advice is keep it as it is.

OK, I suppose it would be a bit confusing to have two different Like/Dislike systems.

I think an update for the new Like/Dislike system, that counts towards reputation, would solve a lot of these issues...then I can get rid of the green thumb.

I seem to have a bee in me bonnet about this green thumb Laughing

I actually prefer this new Like/Dislike system because it 'exposes' the member who's liked or disliked - sometimes on my forum I get a troll and he has a tag-team who keep anonymously liking his post so it looks like lots of people are ganging up against the moderator. This is why I'd like to get rid of the green thumb, but I think to do that I have to deactivate the Points/Reputation and then the Thanks button won't work either.

If you get me drift...? Confused

by **Ape** August 20th 2020, 9:16 pm

 EDIT:

you don't need to have the thumbs up turned on to see the thanks button Wink

I just turned mine off on my forum and have no problems seeing the thanks button on reply's to my topic's

by jkh August 20th 2020, 9:18 pm

SLGray wrote:Did you start the topic?

No.

But that's my point: How can I like his post if I can't see a Thanks button?

by **SLGray** August 20th 2020, 9:19 pm

The green thumbs up is not the like system. It is the reputation system.

by jkh August 20th 2020, 9:19 pm

APE wrote:Do you have them both turned on ?
Modules -> Points and reputation -> Reputation

The images have changed a little but they are all still working the same way

You MUST have both of them Turned on like in the image / Screen shot.

How to set it up >> https://help.forumotion.com/t38434-reputation-system-evaluation-thanks-button

Yes, I have them both turned on.

by **SLGray** August 20th 2020, 9:21 pm

SLGray wrote:Did you start the topic?

by jkh August 20th 2020, 9:21 pm

SLGray wrote:The green thumbs up is not the like system. It is the reputation system.

OK, thanks.

But how can I thank someone's post if I can't see the Thanks button when he starts a topic?

by **SLGray** August 20th 2020, 9:29 pm

Only the author of the topic can thank someone who had replied to the topic!

by **Ape** August 20th 2020, 9:30 pm

jkh wrote:
OK, thanks.

But how can I thank someone's post if I can't see the Thanks button when he starts a topic?

You can't.... You can only Thank a member for posting in YOUR topic

So this is how it works:

You post a topic
A member then reply's to your topic on the members reply you will see the THANKS button so you can thank him / her for a reply to your post / Topic.

Now when you have thanks that one member you can not thank anyone else on that same topic as you have already thanked a member already.

You can not thank a member for making a post this is the way it was made. you can only Thumbs up the members topic that is why we had a thumbs up / like system in the first place.

by jkh August 20th 2020, 9:32 pm

SLGray wrote:Only the author of the topic can thank someone who had replied to the topic!

Oh, now I get it! Finally the penny has dropped! thumleft

by **Ape** August 20th 2020, 9:33 pm

@jkh I made an edit to my last post please read....
https://help.forumotion.com/t159435-points-and-reputation-how-to-get-the-thanks-button-to-show#1111078

by jkh August 20th 2020, 9:34 pm

APE wrote:
jkh wrote:
OK, thanks.

But how can I thank someone's post if I can't see the Thanks button when he starts a topic?

You can't.... You can only Thank a member for posting in YOUR topic

So this is how it works:

You post a topic
A member then reply's to your topic on the members reply you will see the THANKS button so you can thank him / her for a reply to your post / Topic.

Now when you have thanks that one member you can not thank anyone else on that same topic as you have already thanked a member already.

You can not thank a member for making a post this is the way it was made. you can only Thumbs up the members topic that is why we had a thumbs up / like system in the first place.

Thank you! I understand now. Celebrate

by **Ape** August 20th 2020, 9:36 pm

is this now solved ?
if yes please don't forget to press the mark solved button at the top of this topic Wink

Thanks.

APE

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