Right now, for those who monitor the site via new/unread posts, not to appear ungrateful, but it can be annoying to be excited at a story thread updated, only to find that it's merely a "thanks!" or "loved it!".
A lot of other phpBB sites which house fiction get around this by providing a "thanks"/"great"/etc. functionality.
The plugin can be found here:
https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtop ... &t=2259046