To those who dont mark answered questions as "Answered"

I've never paid attention to points, but I just found out that I need 500 points to upload a custom avatar of my dog. Is that right? 500 points? That crazy! That means I'm going to have to be helpful. I hate being helpful.

Oh well, points or not, I'm sure it's nice for future readers to have a clear indication of the correct solution for the problem being discussed. Prolly not a bad idea to nudge people to use that feature.

Adding...

You'd laugh at how long it took me to figure out that I couldn't use a custom avatar. That's what landed me in the "Using Apple Support Communities" forum.

It's weird that I've never played with forum preferences before today. I didn't even know that threading discussions was an option. That's nice. It makes things easier to follow.

So, 9 times as much as Level 1 sounds pretty nice. Hey, wait a minute...

Matthew Knice wrote:

Ask dumb@$$ questions in random forums and then use a discretely newly created accouunt to *answer* all the questions asked with this accouunt. But I wont do that because that is probably illegal and can get me banned from these forums

It's been tried, and you're right, it gets you banned. I'm sure you would never consider it.

Wow, to get a chance to chat with post addicts and web admins of discussions.apple.com? That's another type of Apple-centric there.... o__O

funky_pat wrote:

Wow, to get a chance to chat with post addicts and web admins of discussions.apple.com? That's another type of Apple-centric there.... o__O

Well, you don't have to worry about that for some years.

Good, and I won't. 😝 Nor should anyone.

I mean, wow, reporting site bugs to web admins....

So other than clicking on "This solved my question" or "This helped me," is there anything else I should be doing to indicate the question has been answered? (I'm pretty new around these parts too) 🙂

Nope, that is all. Except you could optionally write a "Thank you" post, just be sure not to mark THAT post as correct 😉

Thank you.

Hi

I started another post on which you replied too. Thank you very much for that. I have a question though. I wanted to award someone on my post the "this solved my problem" points but mistakenly ended up pressing the button for another idiot on the post who was not even the LAST person to deserve that.

Is there any way I can take this back? Anyway I can award someone else the "This solved my question" points?

Thank you

You can't take back point once awarded. You would still have two 'helpful' stars so you could use one of those (5 points) - or if he's given more than one response award 'helpful' to to of them. (Forum etiquette restrains him from suggesting that himself.)

This helped me: 5 points

This solved my question: 10 points

Marking your own answer as "solved": worthless.

worthless

Not a great example.

In fact, it demonstrates that when one's own answer is correct and one marks it as such, future visitors searching for information about the same issue may benefit from one's having done so. (But don't get me started on Ayn Rand. 😉)

Don't take to "points" to seriously - the amount of points I got awarded never really corresponds to the time spend on writing the post - recently I received 10 points for simply writing "canceled", after I noticed that the answer went to the wrong thread ( This solved my questionRe: Library, Faces, Unnamed Faces Buffer), but no points at all in other threads for working out a tricky debugging problem.

Sometimes it seems like the ops are just throwing a dice to figure out how many points to award.