Thanks are useless...

[KingFu]

Forum thanks and reputation are entirely useless. I'm not sure why they still exist on here when so many people find them pointless...

Many people have stated this in the past, I just wanted to revive the topic since so many people feel strongly about it. Tons of thanks are given out to not even necessarily useful posts. A lot of it is friends thanking friends, or people buying thanks from others. Lots of thanks and rep can give someone the appearance of being helpful and making useful posts like long, detailed guides, when they're really posting threads ranting about things like forum rep.

So, what does everyone else think?

Don't forget, if you find this post useful, please give it a thanks/thumbs up.