Well, for sure, it starts showing "thanked by" under the message and the screen name of the person who clicked thank. Lars may know the rest from the recipient's POV because a few days ago I clicked on it on one of his messages just to see what would happen. :)

Annie, it only shows on my laptop and iPad, not my phone

I've just clicked "thank you" on the 2 posts above. Let us know what you got

I see the 'thanked by bbstx', but no 'say thank you' on posts. On my desktop iMac...

I've seen that on the Buffalo Bills forum website. Lots of opinions over there about players, games, anything. Over there "thanked by" shows agreement, rather than posting the same thing over and over. Lots of opinions over there but not an especially articulate bunch, lol. Sandy Like button seems to do the same.

Same here, I only see Say Thank You on my ipad. I see Like on my laptop, also Bookmark.

Hey wait a minute. Say thank you has disappeared from my iPad. Guess it was removed.

Wow! You seem to have thanked Annie and Me on two sides of an update.
:) Annie's says "Thanked by X" and mine says "X thanked you". The
"Thank" has also disappeared from my screen. I don't know if they're
tweaking it, or if it's gone for good. I did check my e-mail and
dashboard, and there wasn't anything about it there (I have all
notifications off, so wasn't surprised about the e-mail). It's looking
like it just showed by the message, but since it seems to be in flux,
that might not hold...

Never saw it - maybe it was temporary.

If you are the OP, 'thank you' is one of the options available. If you are a responder, you can 'like'.

Oh! That explains the sometimes there. :) I've been posting threads hoping to get people talking. :)

So the Like part of Facebook then?

I can see the utility of having the thank-you for the OP, but that's going to have to grow a whole new etiquette of when it's appropriate to click and when it will hurt someone's feelings not to get a thank-you. I propose that we, at least in Cooking, try to limit it to responses that answer specific questions. Not for attitudinal questions like my recent one about pizza definitions, where all answers are right. Not for every response. Just for the ones that are right on target, and maybe the first one. Like the current question about Nutella filling. I've been thinking it had some similarity to peanut butter, and that there are recipes for peanut butter and cream cake fillings, but if I had posted that, it wouldn't be right on target, even if it were useful in terms of how much cream to use, whereas a T&T recipe for Nutella cream cake filling would be dead on, and for Nutella cream frosting would be sort of on (thank if a good template, not if wrong texture).

Otherwise, we'll be thanking each other constantly and losing all meaning.

I have it too and was wondering about it. LOL, now all I need is a bumper sticker that says "Don't forget a wave when I let you in".

I think I'll continue my practice of simply writing "thank you" in the body of my response.

Oooh! Love the avatar! And, yes, responding politely is always the best way. :)