How do you know if users have a history of marking answers?

Question

In Stack Overflow, you can easily see if a user is going to acknowledge your help by looking at their acceptance rate. I am finding it frustrating, however, that my answers on the Adobe forums are often ignored in favor of answers I feel are leading the user in a wrong direction, simply because the other person giving an answer had more red "bars" under their name.
I have helped many users, and many of them have come back and thanked me.  However, none have marked my answers as correct or even helpful.  I would like to concentrate on helping users who are willing to mark answers as correct or helpful, so that those bars reflect the amount of help I am actually giving.  Where can I look to find out which users have a history of marking answers?
Thanks;
Amy

Answer 1

Hi, Amy. I'm not sure why I'm persisting in this, but:
This thread seems to have wandered off a bit.  Just so it's clear, I was asking a technical question (how to see who does and does not mark answers as correct)
That wasn't clear...just to be clear in return:
This forum provides no summary reporting of a user's marking of answers.
However, if you are truly inspired, there are some things you can do.
If you look at a user's page, under Stuff > Discussions, you will find a tabulation of the threads started by that user. E.g: http://forums.adobe.com/people/Amy%20Blankenship?view=discussions
Those are, of course, the only threads that a user could have awarded points in. The tabulation shows which threads are designated as Answered () and which are not (). Whether a user marks a question as Answered is not the same as whether they award points, but I think you will find that there is a reasonable correlation.
If you are even more interested, a script to open all those threads and determine whether they have offered Helpful or Correct answer designations is not very difficult, if you are experienced at writing tools that scrape web pages. Given that most users have less than 100 threads, it is probably not a violation of this site's terms of service (either implicitly or explicitly) to suck down those threads in an automated fashion, and certainly should have no appreciable effect on the server (a question one should always ask when considering automated retreival of data from someone's web server).
So, to summarize: I) This forum software does not keep a running total of this information that is available to us II) You can get a pretty good proxy for it by taking a quick look III) You could write a simple script to calculate it for you with a little bit of work.
Also, there is a moral hazard: Users who do not mark answers as Correct or Helpful are no less deserving of help than those that do. Many are unfamiliar with the cultural/social protocols of this site, and that should not be held against them. That is, however, merely my opinion, and certaily it is arguable.