- Invitation Status
- Posting Speed
- 1-3 posts per day
- One post per day
- 1-3 posts per week
- One post per week
- Writing Levels
- Adept
- Advanced
- Preferred Character Gender
- Primarily Prefer Female
- Genres
- I like nearly all genres as long as they are anime-themed, anything can be made interesting.
Today I came across a post that used hide-thanks tag as a purpose of gathering likes(not going to say more to this since I don't want to incite a witch hunt) and, upon further investigation, found a whole lot more of these hider things. I'm not sure how long they're a part of Iwaku now and have really strong, negative, emotions about them but, instead, I'll hopefully keep it short and subjective. Because it makes zero sense.
I'm also aware I can easily see such posts via quoting the initial post and/or giving a like and then removing it, but those are workarounds for a feature that shouldn't exist in the first place.
So, while it could be argued that the hidereply options make sense to avoid lurkers inside RPs (which is an entire discussion in itself as to why to RP on a platform that has 'open viewing access' instead of taking it somewhere else), the other tag, hidethanks, makes no sense whatsoever on a role-play forum.
Actually the hide until reply option seems pretty cool, role-playing wise, to hide schemes and traps until after someone posted. But that doesn't excuse hidethanks.
The idea of liking a post is because I like the CONTENT of the post. How can I like the content if I can't see the entire content in the first place, unless I give it a like?
Or am I missing something here?
For those not aware what I am talking about, basically this, taken from the bb-codes section:
I'm also aware I can easily see such posts via quoting the initial post and/or giving a like and then removing it, but those are workarounds for a feature that shouldn't exist in the first place.
Actually the hide until reply option seems pretty cool, role-playing wise, to hide schemes and traps until after someone posted. But that doesn't excuse hidethanks.
The idea of liking a post is because I like the CONTENT of the post. How can I like the content if I can't see the entire content in the first place, unless I give it a like?
Or am I missing something here?
For those not aware what I am talking about, basically this, taken from the bb-codes section:
Last edited: