I've simply made myself a Greasemonkey script to rid myself of:

• The 'Thanks' thumb image.
  
• The 'Thanks' names box.
  
• The 'Thanks' count under the username.

It's not pretty... so if someone else can do it better, do let me know. But at least it works!

Installation: You can drag-and-drop the lfsforumthanksblocker.user.js file onto the Firefox window for easy installation
Alternatively: Drag onto the little GreaseMonkey monkey icon in the Firefox status bar!

Note: Because the RegEx to remove the 'Thanks' count takes a bit of time, it is, like the other functions, executed only on page load. This means that when a quick-post reply or edit is made, the count on that post is visible until refresh. It's not a bug, it's an attempt at avoiding terrible performance

Note #2: This is based off a code snippet from AndroidXP So... thanks to j00

Anyway, here it is, for your benefit!

(For those of you not in the know, GM is a Firefox extension )

Cool, thanks for using (parts of) my code

How do I use it? I've downloaded the extension, but now what?

You can drag-and-drop the lfsforumthanksblocker.user.js file onto the Firefox window for easy installation

Quote from AndroidXP :

Cool, thanks for using (parts of) my code

Not so much stealing, as... expanding

I tried to drag and drop, but it won't add to the list. It does show the green icon that the file can be dropped there

It adds it to the GreaseMonkey 'Manage User Scripts' window... not the Firefox extensions window

I did!

edit: I found another way, I dragged it to the Monkey icon and then it asked me to install. It works now, thanks a lot!

Now, to be a cheeky sod and thank James for this, then promptly install it

Works nicely with Opera without any extra plugins , altough it's currently slow, it's to be improved in our mighty next patch. For opera users I recommend to add a @include www.lfsforum.net* to the beginning.

EDIT: Ignore my last sentence, think it won't work with Greasemonkey scripts used in Opera.

Forgot the @include in the script... just added it and updated the zip

Heh, it seems this extension and Opera's native Javascript support are pretty similar. Now I'll just have to wait for Opera 9.5 to start using it without using all of my processing power.

Quote from JamesF1 :

I've simply made myself a Greasemonkey script to rid myself of:

• The 'Thanks' thumb image.
  
• The 'Thanks' names box.
  
• The 'Thanks' count under the username.

It's not pretty... so if someone else can do it better, do let me know. But at least it works!

Installation: You can drag-and-drop the lfsforumthanksblocker.user.js file onto the Firefox window for easy installation
Alternatively: Drag onto the little GreaseMonkey monkey icon in the Firefox status bar!

Note: Because the RegEx to remove the 'Thanks' count takes a bit of time, it is, like the other functions, executed only on page load. This means that when a quick-post reply or edit is made, the count on that post is visible until refresh. It's not a bug, it's an attempt at avoiding terrible performance

Note #2: This is based off a code snippet from AndroidXP So... thanks to j00

Anyway, here it is, for your benefit!

(For those of you not in the know, GM is a Firefox extension )

Thanks system? What thanks system! :P

Nice work, the forum is the same as it always was

As long as people using this script don't continue to use +1 then it's okay. But the thanks system is here for a reason, and that is to +1 suggestions without a lot of posts. Negative comments still have to be posted, and they should contain explanatory text anyhow.

Quote from tristancliffe :

As long as people using this script don't continue to use +1 then it's okay. But the thanks system is here for a reason, and that is to +1 suggestions without a lot of posts. Negative comments still have to be posted, and they should contain explanatory text anyhow.

Using the thanks system as a method for polling seems to be a huge misnomer to me. Failing that, and it is meant as a '+1' avoidance, then an enforced poll on various subforums is perhaps more relevant and much less spammy.

Quote from tristancliffe :

As long as people using this script don't continue to use +1 then it's okay. But the thanks system is here for a reason, and that is to +1 suggestions without a lot of posts. Negative comments still have to be posted, and they should contain explanatory text anyhow.

+1

Most of us (I think) who will be using this script, are the sorts of people who don't go into one of those threads and go "+1", we actually try and give (semi)valuable input into the thread.