Lol. Instead of that I'll inform you about the thanks/groans business. When I first started here there were none. Then at one point there was a system of "rep(utation) points" for when people liked or hated posts. They showed up as little green or red bricks on the right hand side where the thanks and groans are now. Then they got to be a point of disagreement and people started fighting over them, so it was abandoned. Now my memory's a little fuzzy here but I think some time passed and then the thanks/groans system got started.
Before thanks/groans you had lots of posts where people said only "good point" or "well said", things like that to show approval of a comment and of course one or two words to show disapproval. It was tedious and took up space. Thanks/groans came along so you could show approval and disapproval without typing something out.
If people really hated thanks/groans they could be gone. The mods could do a poll and posters would give their preferences. It's just like threadbanning, that practice stays around because a majority want it.
Some people here, and we know who they are, have a real obsession with thanks/groans, lol. The stories they build around them are hilarious. Personally I think it's because these people don't have the chops for real discussion here so they fall back on something trivial. There's gotta be a better use of time than obsessing over this.
