Not saying thank you is impolite.  However, I find the following behaviors or characteristics to be far more egregious breaches of forum etiquette and common politesse:  Moral grandstanding, insufferable boorishness, condescension, pretensiousness, know it all itis, holier-than-thou-ness, thinly disguised buttkissing, fanatical cheerleading, and plays at faux victimhood.  It goes without saying that chronic and repetitive practitioners of such behaviors get in the way of honest discourse, call attention to themselves in favor of the topic at hand, and generally fray relations between participants. 

Interesting topic. Sort of. Mainly because I never thought about this. ^_^ Afaik I always say 'thank you' when someone helped me out, but I never look (or wait) for a 'thank you' whenever I helped someone. I do indeed like it, as has been mentioned, if someone says something helped (or not) but usually I post something and then move on. I only will look at that specific topic again of someone actually posted another reply. I think I must have posted 'hundreds' of helpful posts that were never ever replied to but which I never noticed because I had moved on already.  ^_^ I like to post and I like to help and you never know whomever might be helped by a post in the future. If someone only says 'Yes, that worked!' then that's more than enough for me. I really don't need a 'thank you' added to that.

 

As for the voting system: I never EVER look at that. I just had a look at my profile to see if I had any votes and that was the first time I ever checked that number. But it doesn't say anything to me, really.

 

Location is another thing I never look at. If I think my location is of any interest or use I might post it in a topic but other then that I don't think anyone needs to know where I live. Or anything else. To me that's the nice thing about the internet and I think it helps people being more equal and participating in discussions on the same level without looking at age or whatever.

 

Things that do bother me are incorrect behaviour, bad language and things like that.

 

I suppose it's not only a cultural thing but also a personal thing. ^_^

 

Sorry for not agreeing with most of you! -_-

 

Sorry for not agreeing with most of you! -_-

 

Whilst we might not all agree on the 'thanks' thing, I'm sure we'd all agree that you definitely don't need to apologise for not agreeing! :smile:    

 

I doubt there'd even be a forum here any more if we all agreed! :lazy:      :lol: