A follow up question to Introducing Apple Recommends, Manage Subscriptions, and This Helped Me

There is nothing in the info published by Apple that I can see at this point to be able to tell how many of those it takes. I'm sure it'll be announced later - probably when the dust clears, so to speak.

No, you still get the points if the OP marks your answer helpful. Additionally, you can get another 5 points if enough other users click the helpful - but we don't know how many that is right now. And you can still get 10 points if the OP marks yours as solved (can't give yourself the points though).

And yes, I did get the 5 - thanks.

I was only able to mark my own and yours - not this one (a total of two). I also heard that there are glitches at the moment while all of it is being put into place, so I think this will settle down to the previous 1 solved and 2 helpfuls (by the OP) - don't know about the other posters, but you still can't give yourself points so I don't know if that will count along with other users' helpfuls.

Howdy GeoCo et al

I sort of agree with this new "Helpie-ette" deal. I wonder why while at this portion of the UX they didn't address the ongoing issue of the "irrevocable nature " of the OP awards of the traditional Green Stamp and Gold Star - I have made the mistake (once) but I see the silliest things marked Solved frequently. THAT is bad for business in that it gives false visual info and false statistical results.

We'll see... BTW, the [People] TAB itself is the only new thing (the CONTROL in the TAB bar) - the URL has always been alive and well if one knew to add " /people "

A test to see f the helpful shows up on your own post.

Seems it does. Will this count toward the 'several' needed to get the points?

No official word on that from the hosts (yet).......... and we don't know.

Hi GeoCo,

I see the purpose of Apple Support Communites to be users helping other users. I get a warm glow from a reply such as “Thank you, that solution worked ” and that is worth much more than points. Lets’s wait until this new-look forum settles down. Then we will know how the new points system will work.

Regards,

Ian.

I was going to do an experiment where I clicked all the post's this helped me, to see if all the post were listed below the original, however, I was stopped after clicking two. All the this helped me, were turned black.

I wonder if you could mess with the javascript to change them back to blue? Would be fun.

Robert

[ All Sales Final ] (still) - all that kind of stuff is held your AID DB record - ÇÇÇ

That, I believe, would be in violation of the ToU here:

Do not 'game' the system. You agree to not create multiple IDs or otherwise manipulate the points system.