"Thanks" feature is inadequate.

[giblets]

The "Thanks" feature is supposed to be a way to thank people for useful posts. But often people just slap a "thanks" onto a post just because they agree with it or thought it was funny. We should have more options besides "thanking" a post. For example, let people downvote troll posts and if a post gets too many downvotes it automatically gets hidden like on the ignore list.

[Lorizael]

Apolyton was founded as a community for people who played a nerdy video game released in 1996. I'm not sure why you think it should employ modern social media tools.

[Thoth]

The "Thanks" feature is supposed to be a way to thank people for useful posts. But often people just slap a "thanks" onto a post just because they agree with it or thought it was funny. We should have more options besides "thanking" a post. For example, let people downvote troll posts and if a post gets too many downvotes it automatically gets hidden like on the ignore list.

[giblets]

Apolyton was founded as a community for people who played a nerdy video game released in 1996. I'm not sure why you think it should employ modern social media tools.

There's been almost no new members since 2002 or so. Look at how much r/civ is growing

[Lorizael]

Not sure that's true. The member list has 100,617 entries (although the front page lists 129,591 members). Of those ~100,000, ~18,000 registered before 2003, ~82,000 after 2002.

[giblets]

But not very many new posters stick around. Active posters are usually people who joined over a decade ago. There's practically nothing in the Civ5 forum except for spambots and someone spamming threads about "Polycast".