>The points option only applies to technical questions. Since you posted your question in the Chatter section, I don't think you'll see the option at the bottom of these messages.
The button appears, but the user gets a message, something like "can't mark non-technical articles as valuable contributions".
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)