No Thanks Button

[Jeremy D. Scott]

I confess...

Sometimes I wish there was a "No Thanks" button on Naznet. When I see a post with which I really disagree, but don't really feel like typing out a response (mostly to avoid a lengthy discussion, likely one we've already had a number of times), I think about the possibility of one. It's not so much that I just want to be argumentative, but that when I think about how many people look at and read these forums, I want something that says, "Though this is here, it doesn't speak for me."

This is not a request, so refrain from telling me why I'm wrong. It's a confession. In fact, in the end, I really wouldn't want one. I can easily see the negative that would come with it: it would only be more divisive (in fact, the "Thanks" button we do have is often enough actually divisive).

But sometimes I find myself wishing for it.

[Cindi Hammons]

I agree with you, but also see why it would not be a good thing. It's along the same lines of the times I wish there were a "3-thumbs up" sign sometimes instead of just one. :)

[Peggy Gray]

I'm confused enough as it is! Sometimes I hit the funny button instead of the prayer button, for example. How embarrassing.

I participate in two others communities. One has only a thanks button, and one has no buttons at all.

I agree with you, sometimes I wish there were a "thumbs down" button (or "no thanks") but communication is tenuous at best sometimes as it is, and that would be one more thing for people to interpret as an attack.

I think I'll stick with my current method of dealing with those posts: either reply courteously, or stick my tongue out at the screen and ignore it.

[G R 'Scott' Cundiff]

The Thanks button is an add on to the forum's software and there actually is a "groan" button that can be added too. I didn't think it would be a good addition to NazNet, but I can understand how it could be useful at times!

[David Pettigrew]

Maybe we need the "thumbs up" and "thumbs down" feature on youtube, that gives you a cumulative score for your posts! That just might finally send me into the need for prescription medication, though.

[Mike Schutz]

I couldn't handle it.

When I don't get a "thanks" or a "laugh," I can talk myself into the idea that folks just didn't see my insight or humor. If they had the opportunity to actively and easily reject me... Well, I'm just not that secure.

And, I'm already on medication for when I don't feel appreciated. They're called "Doritos." (Is it any wonder that I've gained quite a bit of weight since I became a pastor?)

[Mark Woodward]

Sometimes I use the funny button to say "you can't be serious" and I am on the same medication as Mike Schutz.

[Glenn Messer]

What buttons? We have buttons? I do well just to remember how to log in.

[Bob Evans]

You don't have to respond to everything.

[David Molle]

Sometimes I wish there was a "No Thanks" button on Naznet.
http://www.buffdaddy.net/nothanks.gif

[Betty Bolerjack]

Hahahahaha! Good one, David! :laughing

[Susan Unger]

The Thanks button is an add on to the forum's software and there actually is a "groan" button that can be added too. I didn't think it would be a good addition to NazNet, but I can understand how it could be useful at times!

Oh, the number of times where I wished for the groan button!!!!

[David Molle]

http://www.buffdaddy.net/groan.gif

http://www.buffdaddy.net/justsayno.gif

:laughing

[Betty Bolerjack]

Now, if they just worked. No, wait a minute! Maybe it's better that they don't. The reader can click to their heart's content and no one else will ever know. :laughing

[Dale Cozby]

If a groan button was added...

1. Would it count how often we groaned like it counts how often we say thanks? That could say a lot too. :eek:

2. We would have to go back through months of the threads and groan at each other for a few days before moving on to new posts.:laughing

3. Some people might actually go for the title of groan champion of Naznet. How many groans can you get?:fun04

on second thought.....maybe we should keep it like it is.


P.S. I would hate to become the groan champion....at least without a close second.

[Hans Deventer]

You don't have to respond to everything.

No kidding! And now you tell me? After all these years? :laughing

[Jeremy D. Scott]

You don't have to respond to everything.

I know, I said as much.

But a lack of response might imply general agreement, or even indifference, which isn't often the case.

But you're right. In these cases, I tell myself to let go and be patient, and most often, someone else says what I wanted to in response, which I can then "thank."

[Scott Sherwood]

Ideas for more buttons.

the "liberal" button
the "fundamentalist" button
the "heresy" button
the "I can't think of a good comeback, but if I could I would use it" button
the "eject" button

[David Pettigrew]

I bet Scott C wishes he a had a "sorry I ever added these buttons in the first place" button.

[Hans Deventer]

Ideas for more buttons.

the "liberal" button
the "fundamentalist" button
the "heresy" button

I think people can put these in their signature as well, of course. I'm a liberal heretic, for instance. But then again, everyone already knows it, no need for redundancy :basic05

[David Parker]

All I usually wish I had was a "went over my head" button. Mostly just during the postmodern theology discussions. :o

[Susan Unger]

All I usually wish I had was a "went over my head" button. Mostly just during the postmodern theology discussions. :o

I also like a vomit button.

[Peggy Gray]

The possibilities are endless. I've always wondered why the thanks button is for a "useful post". I thank a lot of posts that aren't particularly useful, I just like them. Or agree with them. Or appreciate the thought that went into them.

Maybe we could have buttons for:
*Best post I've read all day
*You must have read my mind
*I think you need a hug
*Who cares?
*I'm not going to dignify this with a reply
*I'm going to print this and pass it out to my friends
*Are you sure you're a Nazarene?

Hey! I just had a brainstorm! Maybe we could have buttons in real life! Just press a button that says "I love you" or "Leave me alone" or "Where did you put my clean shirt?" We wouldn't have to talk at all, just push buttons!

[Dennis M. Scott]

The possibilities are endless. I've always wondered why the thanks button is for a "useful post". I thank a lot of posts that aren't particularly useful, I just like them. Or agree with them. Or appreciate the thought that went into them.

Maybe we could have buttons for:
*Best post I've read all day
*You must have read my mind
*I think you need a hug
*Who cares?
*I'm not going to dignify this with a reply
*I'm going to print this and pass it out to my friends
*Are you sure you're a Nazarene?

Hey! I just had a brainstorm! Maybe we could have buttons in real life! Just press a button that says "I love you" or "Leave me alone" or "Where did you put my clean shirt?" We wouldn't have to talk at all, just push buttons!

Good. Then we could program our computers to decide on their own which buttons and when to push, and we wouldn't have to exert even mental energy to be bothered with this stuff at all! We could even have an "unbutton". Or I suppose we could just with a rare but opportune occurence not even hit the "on" button for the computer and just not look at Naznet at all. :basic04

Remind me, what did we do with all this time and mental energy before Naznet anyway?

[Vivian Cornwell]

:basic04

Remind me, what did we do with all this time and mental energy before NazNet anyway?

I was on another site where I learned a lot about "why" I was on the board but the discussions about politics and religion were terrible. It was a "learning about selling" board, not a church related board. The people were extremely opinionated and I didn't want to get in those discussions at all - well I don't get in them here either. At least here most people are a little more understanding. I don't miss that board at all. I think I learned a lot before I left, about selling and maybe could learn more but just have no desire to go back to that site since I found NazNet.

[Hans Deventer]

Remind me, what did we do with all this time and mental energy before Naznet anyway?

We lived our lives thinking that the world ended at the borders of the district and everyone, except a few lunatics, was thinking just like us.

[Daniel Hamlin]

I guess it brings new meaning to the phrase "He knows how to push my buttons!" :)

[Susan Unger]

The possibilities are endless. I've always wondered why the thanks button is for a "useful post". I thank a lot of posts that aren't particularly useful, I just like them. Or agree with them. Or appreciate the thought that went into them.

Maybe we could have buttons for:
*Best post I've read all day
*You must have read my mind
*I think you need a hug
*Who cares?
*I'm not going to dignify this with a reply
*I'm going to print this and pass it out to my friends
*Are you sure you're a Nazarene?

Hey! I just had a brainstorm! Maybe we could have buttons in real life! Just press a button that says "I love you" or "Leave me alone" or "Where did you put my clean shirt?" We wouldn't have to talk at all, just push buttons!

I know when I've been on naznet for too long when I read emails or hear someone say something I like and I have a strong urge to push a button in thanks!:basic07

[Marsha Lynn]

Remind me, what did we do with all this time and mental energy before Naznet anyway?

We lived our lives thinking that the world ended at the borders of the district and everyone, except a few lunatics, was thinking just like us.

Or for some of us, we lived our lives thinking that the world ended at the borders of the district and there wasn't anyone in the Church of the Nazarene anywhere who was thinking just like us.

:cool:

[Susan Unger]

Or for some of us, we lived our lives thinking that the world ended at the borders of the district and there wasn't anyone in the Church of the Nazarene anywhere who was thinking just like us.

:cool:

Or, the world ended at the church doors and there was NO one thinking like me in all of nazarenedom. It was rather lonely....

[Billy Cox]

Or for some of us, we lived our lives thinking that the world ended at the borders of the district and there wasn't anyone in the Church of the Nazarene anywhere who was thinking just like us.

:cool:

Yes, now I know that other districts have lunatics too. :basic05

[Billy Cox]

I know when I've been on naznet for too long when I read emails or hear someone say something I like and I have a strong urge to push a button in thanks!:basic07

I've noticed that too.

[Gina Stevenson]

The possibilities are endless. I've always wondered why the thanks button is for a "useful post". I thank a lot of posts that aren't particularly useful, I just like them. Or agree with them. Or appreciate the thought that went into them.

Maybe we could have buttons for:
*Best post I've read all day
*You must have read my mind
*I think you need a hug
*Who cares?
*I'm not going to dignify this with a reply
*I'm going to print this and pass it out to my friends
*Are you sure you're a Nazarene?

Hey! I just had a brainstorm! Maybe we could have buttons in real life! Just press a button that says "I love you" or "Leave me alone" or "Where did you put my clean shirt?" We wouldn't have to talk at all, just push buttons!

'Was one of many who apparently read this & tho't, "But, Peggy, even tho' we all know how to talk, we do still sometimes push buttons!" [returned to add that you've got some good "button" ideas there ;)]

Good. Then we could program our computers to decide on their own which buttons and when to push, and we wouldn't have to exert even mental energy to be bothered with this stuff at all! We could even have an "unbutton". Or I suppose we could just with a rare but opportune occurence not even hit the "on" button for the computer and just not look at Naznet at all. :basic04

Remind me, what did we do with all this time and mental energy before Naznet anyway?

Got more books read?

I guess it brings new meaning to the phrase "He knows how to push my buttons!" :)

Definitely! Confirmation of my above comment. :laughing

I've noticed that too.

Noticed what? Now I've forgotten what it was I copied your note for, w/o the one to which you were replying there also! (maybe it would be neat to have a whole box-worth of note quoted when we click on the "quote" thing; then if we don't need it all, we can just delete the portion of it that we don't need?)

[Susan Unger]

I've noticed that too.

Noticed what? Now I've forgotten what it was I copied your note for, w/o the one to which you were replying there also! (maybe it would be neat to have a whole box-worth of note quoted when we click on the "quote" thing; then if we don't need it all, we can just delete the portion of it that we don't need?)

Here is your answer Gina - Billy noticed that he too has this strange desire to click thanks to non-naznet activities :)

I know when I've been on naznet for too long when I read emails or hear someone say something I like and I have a strong urge to push a button in thanks!:basic07

[Dennis M. Scott]

Here is your answer Gina - Billy noticed that he too has this strange desire to click thanks to non-naznet activities :)

You're kidding, right? There are non-naznet activities?