A Pressing Matter of [Thanks]

[livius drusus]

Originally Posted by BrotherMan

You're a fan of history, so let me learn you: The original purpose of the textual [Thanks] was because somebody (somebody not me*) was too lazy to make an image link while patronizing the Freethought Chat Emporium.



*Okay, it was me.

I actually recall that particular Free Thought Chat Emporium Talk Event, as I recall pretty much all Free Thought Talk Forum and Chat Emporium events, but thank you nonetheless for asplaining it for those among us who are not bottomless repositories of folly.

[erimir]

I think :thanks: would probably work fine lol

[ceptimus]

Actually I think it's a bad idea to make any [text] convert to an image, as it flies in the face of the vBulletin convention that [word] is a tag that along with it's matching [/word] encloses some kind of (usually) formatting command.

I don't have any strong feelings on :thanks:

[erimir]

That too.