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by cg it

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think that ought to be our motto for questions that just aren't worth answering.

just like Bill Engvall's "Here's your Sign".

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by thumbsup2

LOL!!! I thought you were calling me into the conversation when I read the title! :D

But, if you want to start using it, I'll play along! ]:)

by the scummy one

Here's Your Thumb

to give a warning...

naw, how about

Dreaded DumbA$$

I like that one better....

by cg it

but there "Here's your Thumb" probably would fly.

Wonder if any of the question posters will get the pun?

by older mycroft

THEN TR's motto could be that we were all "Fingers and Thumbs!"

Which, if you think about it, we all are!! :D

by mjd420nova

Ron White's line would apply "You can't fix STUPID"

by tig2

Thumbs are for doing something good.

I love that show- I have it on DVD. It's GREAT. And it's true. Anything else in the world you can fix. But not stupid.

by tig2

The should be required to carry a sign...

You're up to being bad again today, aren't you. I can tell. You're just itching to get up to no good at all.

CG...

Don't make me come over there!

Have a great day!

by cg it

I can't help it. I was born that way. If a disability that I'm trying to get the government to officially recognize so I can collect social security disability payments.

by tig2

Those are the opening lines of Bill Engvall's "Here's your sign" routine. I figured you'd know it.

I'm not sure that TR and Company would like us to have the power to rate degrees of stupid. No matter how much I would like to be able to do so sometimes. And given some of the behavior around here sometimes, I can see their point. We can get pretty outrageous, sometimes!

by cg it

women either look horrified when they read it or laugh so hard they cry...

by dadspad

How about Beth creating a "Thumbs Down" (just turn it upside down).

Then we can all say, "Here's you Thumb!"

:D

by older mycroft

You've never seen it.

If you give a Thumbs-Up for a post, then later on find out that the idea is a flop, you can award a Thumbs-Down.

So the 'artwork' is already in place - just a case of including it within the front-end.

by thumbsup2

It would be great if we could accumulate a thumbs down tally too, like the one for thumbs up. Then we could all compare our thumbs up count to our thumbs down count to see if we're actually running forwards or backwards, uphill or down! Cuz, I've see a few slipping bassackwards! ]:) :D

by w2ktechman

tis not a thumbs down. If you mark something as helpful, and later decide it wasnt, you can remove the helpful mark. All it does is remove the thumbs up :(

But I do like the thumbs Down, however I think that the thumbs should be in the discussions/articles/blogs and the techpoints should be in the questions.
with the thumbs, everyone should be able to rate the articles with an T-Up or T-Down

by cg it

previously they had a running % of acceptable answers vs questions answered. gave a false idea that people who answer questions were "Here's your Sign"...

by churdoo

My we're an arrogant bunch, aren't we?

It's sometimes discouraging to see such basic questions come from those that have chosen the same title in their profile as I have. Oh well, as the sheep herder says, "If I don't like it, I can get the FLOCK out!"

Anyway, I like the "Thumbs the word" or "Here's your Thumb" idea.

by cg it

"Thumbs the Word" is like the secret handshake thing...

"Here's your Thumb" is pretty blatant.

by churdoo

Hey I see you hit your 900 thumbs, and with plenty of time to spare before the end of the year. Congrats CG!

by thumbsup2

Download it from here, save to your own space and use it freely. If you don't have web space to put it, you can link to mine. PM me and I'll give you the URL.

Have Fun!!!!!!!

by cg it

which is why I put in the part about being born that way and trying to get social security disability....

Besides, on another thread you said your tests came back no cancer so.......

thumbs up for that!!!

by maecuff

(the 80s) at work, we used to have these little slips of paper that had WAY TO GO in big red letters at the top. The idea was that when someone did something extra for you or did a particularly good job, you'd give them a WAY TO GO and they could collect those and use them at review time. A friend and I found that with a little cut and paste (the old fashioned kind) you could make a GO AWAY slip. We passed out a lot more GO AWAYs than WAY TO GOs.

by w2ktechman

a little program to spruce up TR. Have you seen those 'post it' programs? Yes, sneak one onto TR and have them auto-filled for 'Go Away' and activate it so that anyone can 'rate' with them...

However, I think Doug would send my account to some alternate universe, never to return!!!

Oh well, it was just a thought...

by cg it

but I think 10 or more of those are from discussion/questions ... rather than tech suggestions ... but I'll take em... and whatever else I can get... never catch The Chas but maybe by Christmas next year I'll break 1000.

by mjd420nova

The idiot sign. Each motorist would be armed with a small spring loaded gun that shoots the little suction cup darts with a sign attached that said "STUPID". Then the police would pull over all those cars with two or more signs stuck to their trunks.

by the scummy one

but how to put it in the title bar?

Hmmm.
Title Heres your thumb
text -- link it!

yup, that'll do

by thumbsup2

Wouldn't work. I tried! ;)

Guess the title bar doesn't like HTML. :(

by tig2

They removed HTML from the title bar because people were putting oversized text in it and it screwed up the display.

You can put just about anything in the body of a post. The title bar is locked.

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