User:Linuxbeak/Barnstars

Why you won't see any WikiThanks flowers here: Please don't get me wrong: I like WikiThanks. I think getting one is nice. However, Anthere, the person who created the image, has stated the following in regards to treating it like a barnstar or an award:

''Note : When I introduced the picture, it was meant to be a THANK YOU note. I do *not* support the barnstar system. I started putting it on meta, on Raul talk page first as a simple thank you. It is meant to be little, to be gentle, to be hardly visible at all, not to be displayed in user page. Those who use it as a barnstar have made me great wrongness, because this little thank you note was precisely meant to be different of the barnstar system, all splattered on user page. If you appreciate what I do for Wikipedia, please DO NOT KEEP this on your user page, but leave it simply as a little thank you flower on your talk page and let it fall in your archives. This is simply what it was meant to be. This image is under GFDL, so, yes, you can do whatever you want with it, but if you want to be nice and stick to its original spirit, please do NOT use it as a barnstar. It pains me. Anthere 06:11, 20 October 2005 (UTC)''

I respect Anthere, and although I disagree with her position on barnstars (obviously), I agree with her sentiment. WikiThanks should be something nice and pleasant, and that's all. It's meant as a way of saying thank you instead of recognition. Therefore, although I will gladly accept a WikiThanks, you will never see me post one on this page. Linuxbeak (drop me a line) 17:48, 28 May 2006 (UTC)