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April 26, 2009
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According to the forum list, this thread is marked as answered:

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/423893?tstart=0

However, the bar over the OP is contradictory:

This Question is Answered

1 "correct" answer available (10 pts) 2 "helpful" answers available (5 pts)

and all posts are unmarked in terms of stars.

This may be the way forward: we let the software decide and get rid of point giving.

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Correct answer Kath-H

Jacob, you can mark your original post/question as 'answered' without awarding points to any specific response. The software also marks all questions as 'possibly answered' automatically as soon as *any* response appears.

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Anonymous

Concerning the points system, my question is; "What's the Point?"

I have about 10 or 15 points and I haven't answered any questions, at least not intelligently.

Kath-H

Inspiring

I've also had 'thanks very much, that worked' a couple of times - very simple queries with straightforward answers, the ones I specialise in from newbies who obviously had no notion of points. If I took these things seriously I'd be a bit miffed, as it is I think it just illustrates how misleading points totals could be. Away with them!

Ramón G Castañeda

Inspiring

I found it hilarious that Buko got the ten points for this one:

http://forums.adobe.com/message/1917262#1917262

Buko. wrote:

If its a Spanish plugin there's not much you can do about that.

I suppose you could learn Spanish.

Hey, Buko, you got the points! Beautiful system.

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Anonymous

Unless the OP knows what to look for the Answered line is difficult to pick out. But maybe that is a blessing in some cases.

Jacob Bugge

Author

Community Expert

How come some threads, such as this one, have answer point buttons in each post but those from the OP, and other have none?

Claudio González

Legend

Jacob, could you please give an example of the second case? I'm not sure I'm following you, and I have opened so few threads that I have only seen your first case.

Jacob Bugge

Author

Community Expert

Ah, Claudio, I just realized that you see them (only) as OP.

It is hard to get used to silly things.

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Anonymous

As I and many others have said, the points system is counterproductive.

It leads to hasty answers or even to people not bothering to read a thread because it's shown as answered on the summary page.

And it is not an accurate reflection of the reliability of the poster.

Remove it!

Kath-HCorrect answer

Inspiring

Jacob, you can mark your original post/question as 'answered' without awarding points to any specific response. The software also marks all questions as 'possibly answered' automatically as soon as *any* response appears.

Claudio González

Legend

Kath-H wrote:
Jacob, you can mark your original post/question as 'answered' without awarding points to any specific response. The software also marks all questions as 'possibly answered' automatically as soon as *any* response appears.

Well, I think this makes the system even more unfair and, therefore, useless:

Case 1: User replies with a "class in a forum" type of answer that completely clarifies the issue and gives a full solution to the specific problem. Questioner understands 1/10 of the explanation, but finds that the solution works, marks the question as Answered, and gives no points to the answerer.

Case 2. User replies with a workaround of the type "hit Esc key twice, then keep Shift + Ctrl pressed for 13 secs, and it will work". Questioner tries this, it works for him because a neutrino passes through his CPU at the time, marks the question as Answered, and gives the maximum of points to the answerer.

Do I need to continue?

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