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Graham made a decision to remove the thanks/like/dislike buttons for now, they may or may not return but for now he felt it best to try and allow things to calm down.
Over the years there has been issues when people have disagreed had some spats and it has led to people stopping posting, people leaving etc...that is forum life and things always settle down again.
Graham doesn't allow leaving threads and talking about people deciding to return is not appropriate either.
Graham did say last night he was going to review threads today so for now I am going to close the threads discussing the forum as at the end of the day it is Graham's forum and for him to decide.