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

In Introducing Apple Recommends, Manage Subscriptions, and This Helped Me it was written

Now anyone can click "This helped me" to say thanks to helpful members. When several people mark the same post, it will earn a gold star and appear at the top of the discussion, so it’s easier for others to find. The poster will also earn five reputation points for a job well done.

Does anyone know (or is it written anywhere) just how many is 'serveral'? Is it decided on the fly? Or does it depend on the phase of the moon?

Will the points be awarded to the poster only once, or if say 100 people mark it as helpful will more then 5 points be awarded?

Sounds like a really good system but it seems that a bit more thought should have gone into it, no? Or at least the explanation could be clearer.

Ciao.

(Another question) Can the original post (this one) get marked as helpful also? Imagine earning points for posting :-)

Posted on Mar 31, 2015 7:56 AM

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GeoCo Author

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Posted on Mar 31, 2015 8:01 AM

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?

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ChitlinsCC

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Apr 9, 2015 3:42 PM in response to Limnos

Limnos wrote:

ChitlinsCC wrote:

Here's another one with just ONE "This helped me" and IT is MINE after the fact!

how do i remove duplicate songs on my ipod and in my library

Yes, but it was a question asked about iTunes for Mac and the document linked is in the iTunes for Windows area and some of the solution only applies to the Windows platform (the De-Duper script). 😉 😁

Limnos, mi amigo!

The first paragraph!! the Link is to a decidedly NOT Windows manual operation play-by-play article. - Yes, DeDuper does not apply - but neither did I IMply that the entirety of the post ever did! 👿 is in the details

buenos noches

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Apr 9, 2015 10:16 PM in response to GeoCo

مرحبا

ارجو مساعدتي نسيت الرقم السري المكون من 4 ارقام

للايفون 6

babowa

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Apr 9, 2015 10:32 PM in response to aseel1200

Please start your own thread.

ChitlinsCC

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Apr 10, 2015 7:18 AM in response to aseel1200

غير متوفرة باللغة العربية

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Forgot passcode for your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, or ...

https://support.apple.com/en-is/HT204306

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Feb 19, 2015 - Learn what to do if you have forgotten your iOS device passcode, or if your device displays a message saying that it's disabled.

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Ethan7988

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Apr 17, 2015 6:07 AM in response to GeoCo

Five people must click "This helped me" in order for it to be marked as a "Helpful" answer.

Re: After deleting photos, memory in my iPad is still used. WHY?

-Ethan

babowa

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Apr 17, 2015 8:48 AM in response to Ethan7988

And how did you come to that conclusion? Were you notified by the hosts? As of now, only the OP can award points (although it talks about other people marking posts and getting 5 points, as far as I know, this system has not been implemented as of right now) - the only other way to garner points is to have people mark your answer helpful and an Apple employee will mark it as "recommended" - that awards you 5 points and it will show in the upper right corner of the post as "recommended". Your linked post does not show a recommended, so unless the rules were changed in the last couple of days, the OP awarded you the 5 points (while others also found your post helpful).

ChitlinsCC

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Apr 17, 2015 9:16 AM in response to Ethan7988

Ethan

As far as I know, the OP still awards Solvies & Helpies as in the past

WE have the New one...

You got the traditional Helpie on the referenced thread

"Beware the self-fulfilling prophecy"

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Ethan7988

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Apr 17, 2015 9:21 AM in response to babowa

babowa wrote:

And how did you come to that conclusion? Were you notified by the hosts? As of now, only the OP can award points (although it talks about other people marking posts and getting 5 points, as far as I know, this system has not been implemented as of right now) - the only other way to garner points is to have people mark your answer helpful and an Apple employee will mark it as "recommended" - that awards you 5 points and it will show in the upper right corner of the post as "recommended". Your linked post does not show a recommended, so unless the rules were changed in the last couple of days, the OP awarded you the 5 points (while others also found your post helpful).

Because if you look at all the users that selected, "This helped me", the OP's name isn't in there BUT I was still awarded 5 points.

-Ethan

babowa

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Apr 17, 2015 9:22 AM in response to Ethan7988

Additional thought:

What exactly did the notification email say?

deggie

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Apr 17, 2015 9:26 AM in response to Ethan7988

If the OP clicked on the helpful button their name would not be listed in the this helped me area, would it?

Ethan7988

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Apr 17, 2015 9:27 AM in response to babowa

Looked just like the regular emails

-Ethan

Ethan7988

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Apr 17, 2015 9:28 AM in response to deggie

deggie wrote:

If the OP clicked on the helpful button their name would not be listed in the this helped me area, would it?

Is that a question or are you trying to tell me that it wouldn't be in that list?

-Ethan

deggie

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Apr 17, 2015 9:30 AM in response to Ethan7988

Was a little of both but I found a thread where the OP marked a Helpful and there was a 0 down in the this helped me.

babowa

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Apr 17, 2015 9:32 AM in response to Ethan7988

Looked just like the regular emails

If it looked just like a regular email, then I'd say the OP awarded you the helpful, especially since we've not heard of any recent implementations of the new features.

Ethan7988

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Apr 17, 2015 9:37 AM in response to deggie

On my thread, (Applications not updating nor installing) I marked lllaass's answer as helpful and it appeared in the list.

Which means that the OP's name will appear in the list if he/she marked it.

-Ethan

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