Correct vs. helpful answer vs. the rest

How are "correct" and "helpful" answers defined?
Kind regards
Peter Larsen

On top of all that (*which I thought I understood for a moment, but now I'm not so sure...) I've just had one of those revalatory insights:
I now realise why the FAQs all went - they had to. The very idea of finding a correct answer on your own runs completely contrary to the idea of awarding brownie points, doesn't it? I mean, we couldn't possibly have anybody actually looking something up for themselves, because then there would be no mechanism for allocating the person responsible for creating the FAQ with the 'correct answer' points. So it was inevitable, really...
I rather get the impression that whoever came up with these hair-brained ideas about how a forum ought to work never actually participated in using one. And the same goes for anybody who chose to use the software subsequently for their own one. And the more I look at it, the worse it gets; this garbage ought to sink without trace.
*Add answers at your own peril, the workings of the point system are as yet undocumented and you may risk losing answer-points already earned since any added information after the CORRECT answer will constitute incorrect and possibly heretic answers.
This is where it gets even more confusing - certainly conceptually. Can you have a correct answer and a more correct answer? Or does the more correct answer make the correct answer more wrong? And is that the same as less right? I don't think that I'll lose any points for adding this because it doesn't make the definitive answer any more or less correct - because correct is clearly a moveable feast anyway and this is a tangential point. I can't have any points for that though, because the software doesn't allow for vector analysis of responses...

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