Awarding Points

I got this from the faq section here:
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How do I rate an answer to a question I posted?
To rate the answers posted to your question, please follow the instructions below:

Scroll down to the answer to be rated.
Under the posted answer, you will see a section titled Rate This Answer, and underneath this section is a drop-down box.
Click on the drop-down box and you will see two ratings to choose from:
Acceptable—Helped Me
Unacceptable—Didn’t Help Me
If you wish to close the question completely, click on the Close Question button. If you wish to keep the question open, make sure Leave Question Open is selected.
Scroll down to the bottom and click on Submit Request.
If you do not want to close the question, do not rate ANY of the answers as acceptable yet. Wait until you are ready to close the question completely to rate your acceptable questions. Please also note that if you select more than one acceptable answer, the total number of TechPoints you assigned to the question will be evenly distributed.

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My specific question or issue is not addressed in the FAQs listed.
It looks like they should be evenly split amongst accepted answers. Otherwise you could always recreate the same question to award points to the other person and detail that in your info.

Yes, the points are automatically distributed among all "accepted" answers. Yes, you can accept more than one answer.

"Rejected" answers do not get any points.

There's a minimum quantity of points as well. This 5 point question (if you accept the answers) will gain us that minimum (which i think is 10 or 20 points???) -- a zero point question with answers accepted, will also gain a minimum. a 100 point question, that generates 10 accepted answers will also be awarded that minimum.There are problems with the way this is done... it's oftentimes quite accidental that proper answers get rejected.