Why the 3-second delay between Liking and Thanking?

[JenniferMurphy]

Is there a rational reason why the board requires that I wait 3 seconds between clicking on Like this post and Thank you for posting this?

For that matter, is there a rational reason why there are two ways to acknowledge a helpful post?

 

[mole999]

It possibly stops trolls, clicking every link on a page quickly. I might like your post, but not going to thank you for it

 

[JenniferMurphy]

It possibly stops trolls, clicking every link on a page quickly.

I doubt that, but an easy solution would be to eliminate one or the other.

I might like your post, but not going to thank you for it

I cannot imagine a situation where I would like something but not thank or vice versa.

In any case, this is, IMNSHO, just another minor inconvenience for the non-troll user for little or no useful purpose.

 

[Fluff]

Many people will thank someone for trying to help, but will not click like as the solution provided did not work.

 

[JenniferMurphy]

Many people will thank someone for trying to help, but will not click like as the solution provided did not work.

Perhaps, but this doesn't explain the 3-second delay. It seems completely useless to me -- actually worse than useless.

ymmv

 

[mole999]

Perhaps, but this doesn't explain the 3-second delay. It seems completely useless to me -- actually worse than useless.

ymmv

Then please do not use that feature

 

[Peter_SSs]

I cannot imagine a situation where I would like something but not thank or vice versa.

In that case, one would have reason to wonder why have you given 81 'Thanks' but only 70 'Likes'.