The following is the entire text of a post to a SharePoint forum.

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Hi,

I am having the exact same issue. We are not using forms authentication.

Any further ideas?

Thanks.

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I've never really seen much point in writing posts saying that you are having the same problem, but a Microsoft contact thought such posts were very useful as they give an indication of the frequency of the problem. (If, that is, Microsoft read every forum thread, which I doubt).

However that's not the point here, the point is that the next poster marked the above post as a possible answer by marking it with "Propose as Answer".

How any post saying "we are having the same problem" can be regarded as a possible answer to the problem is completely beyond me, yet this is not the first time (and won't be the last, I'm sure) that such a post has been marked as "Propose as Answer".

So not only does the poor Moderator have to deal with the ever-present self-proposers (who propose that their own post is an answer) but also has to deal with "answers" which aren't - by any stretch of the imagination - answers.

Sometimes I wonder why I bother but then comes along a post with a very clear and solid answer and someone whose judgement I trust has proposed it as an answer. Then I can see the point again as I rush to mark it up to Answer status.

No doubt you are saying to yourself that this happens once every couple of weeks so why the fuss. Well the above was today and this next one is also one that was seen today.

Hi XXXX!

Were you able to figure out how to resolve the problem?

Thanks,

YYYY

...and that too was proposed (by the poster in this case - Mr YYYY) as an Answer.