I understand your confusion. I will leave my normal sig link below to
explain it a bit better, but basically, this is it. You log onto
"Communities" with your Passport. This allows the "Communities" interface
for the newsgroup to show icons for 'questions', or 'comments' and so on.
Anyone offering a post that (in the opinion of the "Original Poster"(OP) )
is the 'answer', they can click a ratings icon, and say 'this was helpful'
and causing a checkmark icon to appear on the post.
These are tracked, and if you click on the authors name (in the upper left
corner of the reply, using "Communities web interface") you see the number
of posts I have authored that have been rated as 'answer' by the OP.
In WLM, there is a checkbox in the Options to 'use the communities
interface'. I participate, mostly because it's a new 'game', and since the
MVP world was getting a little boring. (I value the opinion of the
questioner much more than the opinion of MS.)
This participation yields an icon, a 'medal' for gathering 'answer' credits.
It shows in the Communities interface next to he posters name,and
theoretically tells the OP they are hearing for an 'accredited' responder.
The MVPs have their own 'medal' and are pretty much recognized as
authorities on what they address.
You can see some of my work here.
Windows Vista Community Discussion Groups:
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/com...b-a63e791bbc79
(link will break in newsreaders, paste it into run)
--
Was this helpful? Then click the Ratings button. Voting helps the web
interface.
http://www.microsoft.com/wn3/locales...eAPostAsAnswer
Mark L. Ferguson
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"Ildhund" <jnllb@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I cannot for the life of me work out what your problem is. You are clearly
> using communities support features (which I rarely do, because I haven't
> yet found out what advantage they might give). You see your post "go up" -
> up where? Then you get the "Rate this post" (whatever that may mean)
> offer. Why should this not appear in your own messages? As far as I can
> see, it's there in all messages. How is the server to know which are your
> posts and which not? Admittedly, I've only seen this apparatus in MS
> newsgroups - does it work outside them as well? I'm not obliged to log in
> to msnews, so how does it know who I am? There is no connection as far as
> I can see between the Live ID (what you call 'passport', I suppose) I'm
> signed in with and any intercourse I might have with msnews groups. You
> say you see the "correct passport info in the indicator box ... it just
> decides not to work." What do you expect it to do when it does work?
>
> And what do you mean by "I've lost 10% of my posts"? They're no longer on
> the NNTP server? Join the club! The oldest post I can see at the moment is
> dated 26 January this year, yet I've been posting more or less regularly
> in this group since mid 2006. Soon after last Christmas, there were more
> than 5000 messages in this group; before this latest flurry, the count was
> down to 3300.
>
> Would you care to explain the problem a bit more clearly?
> --
> Noel
>
> "Mark L. Ferguson" <MarkLFerguson@xxxxxx> wrote in
> message newsEE5C2BD-6461-4115-B640-95F8C587C928@xxxxxx Quote:
>> When changing newsgroups, back and forth, to look for responces and reply
>> (in
>> WLM and Windows Mail) I will often see my post go up, but I get the "Rate
>> a
>> Post" offer in my own message. This means my passport logon has suddenly
>> failed. I have to restart WLM to get this to work again. I do see the
>> correct
>> passport info in the indicator box in the WLM window, it just decides to
>> not
>> work. I have learned that when I have trouble getting the button for
>> "Reply
>> to Group" to highlight, I know it's time to restart.
>> This seems to be some problem with the passport verification when
>> changing
>> newsgroups. This was happening in Windows Mail, so I changed to Live, but
>> after a month of using each one, I am getting the same passport failure.
>> I
>> don't think this is anything to do with the passport site, but something
>> in
>> the apps themselves.
>> Since I have lost over 10% of my posts that were rated as an 'answer' to
>> this posting failure (he said without a trace of rancor :/), I would like
>> to
>> hear from anyone else seeing this, and if any better fix is available
>> than my
>> 'highlight failure' indicator.
>> --
>> (Hello, Winston O', nice tio see you)
>> Mark L. Ferguson
>
>