https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64284

Quiddity <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Quiddity <[email protected]> ---
The main/brief explanation is in
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notifications/Thanks#What_the_feature_is_not

Thanks is meant to be a lightweight way to express private appreciation, and
not as a way to "endorse" or "up-vote" or "like" someone else's content-edit or
talkpage-post.
 Whilst some people would like a tool to do that, Thanks isn't designed or
intended to be that tool, and that's not how editors have been using it so far
- A new tool would be needed, as well as a much wider onwiki discussion about
how exactly we display and treat (policy/guideline/advice) "upvoted" edits.

This has been discussed further at bug 49087 (and its other duplicates)
and at various talkpage threads. eg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Notifications/Thanks#Public_counters_and_displays

HTH

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 49087 ***

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