I have/had a bit of an issue with the thanks in the past. On the first forum I went on, it wasn't very well monitored, well one of the moderators was actually one of the people causing trouble so not much could be done. Well I got attacked on this forum, and if that wasn't a trigger enough, the person that attacked me got a bunch of thanks from people. I can't tell you how much that hurt, seeing all these people taking this nasty persons side. Well I ended up leaving the forum, crying for 3 days and quitting my therapist for months because it triggered me so bad.
So when I came here and saw it was being used on this forum too, I panicked at first. I feel better about it now though because people aren't so full of s*** like this other place.