My take on as to why thanks button disappeared:
Tom&Jerry show is back in town!
And Mr. SG is right: Get on with your life.
However, I am wondering: Where is the discussion on this thread? It has become a endless series of foot-long News on this and that, and then the same news get quoted by jumping jacks with one-liners. Now it is more like a Graffitti Wall, on which anyone can piss his thoughts with a spray can.
It is no longer a Cafe that Mr. SG founded to have fruitful trading discussions, interspersed occassionally with wit. It is more like a mayhem that one sees in a Gurudwara kitchen during langar.
I suggest Mr. SG, you please take a long break!
Because there are far better things to do than decyphering this graffitti.
Bye for now.