If I am reading right, I couldn't agree more, if you help me out then I click the Thanks/like button under your post, it's just manners. It then pops up in your control panel and you know who was actually helped by what you posted.
If you are talking about a post that merely says "thanks", "cheers", "gentleman", etc., then I completely disagree, and here is why. I spend far too much time deleting these one or two word posts that are against the rules, so much time, that I have been missing posts that are aimed at me in the Wii and the E-book and the DS sections, amongst others.
If you are talking about the second type of Thanks, then sorry, they probably have thanked you, but it is probably me deleting them LOL lol
Finally, I wouldn't say detest personally, but it does get right on my T*TS 👍