ios 9 automatic download making me furious

mariotheplumber wrote:

Your advice is a little too late... Christmas has just gone and guess who didn't replace their iPhone / iPod / MBP / iPad with Apple kit.

If you're happy then good luck.

As long as you are happy with your Apple devices I am happy for you.

From the numer of different threads on this topic, it would appear that there are a lot of moaners out there...

I also suspect there a lot of folks who just can't be ****ed moaning, because either their posts disappear or their experience with Support leaves them "unsatisfied".

Out where?

@ mariotheplumber, Fully agree, there is no point continuing this discussion in this heavily moderated forum.

The likelihood of making any more advancements in solving the problem in this environment is very low

Thanks all for your advice.

Cheers

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@ deggie, I would have given you a "This helped me *" but I don't have any left on this post. Cheers, keep up the good job.

No you couldn't, its not your thread.

Csound1 wrote:

No you couldn't, its not your thread.

People who are not the original poster can click on the "This helped me" at the bottom of a particular post. I just did it to yours. You'll see a number in parentheses saying how many people did that. Click on the number and you can see who. I don't really know what purpose it serves, though.

Oh yes, Is that new?

Csound1 wrote:

Oh yes, Is that new?

A couple of years? I've never been sure if it was just some sort of standard Jive thing or if there were plans for it (sort of like a FaceBook like) that have yet to materialize. And sometimes it doesn't work. Whether it's because we have a limited number that we can use in a day/thread or because Jive is just like that, I don't know.

Well thank you Ms St Clair, when I find helpful posts i'll use it 🙂

Csound1 wrote:

Well thank you Ms St Clair, when I find helpful posts i'll use it 🙂

I use it to let people know I've appreciated their post (or find it amusing) when, for whatever reason, I don't want to post. I don't know if anyone ever notices, though.

Maybe we'll start a trend.

Meg St._Clair wrote:

Csound1 wrote:

No you couldn't, its not your thread.

People who are not the original poster can click on the "This helped me" at the bottom of a particular post. I just did it to yours. You'll see a number in parentheses saying how many people did that. Click on the number and you can see who. I don't really know what purpose it serves, though.

If several helpfuls are clicked on the same message the poster will get points. The number of clicks is "classified".

Lawrence Finch wrote:

Meg St._Clair wrote:

Csound1 wrote:

No you couldn't, its not your thread.

People who are not the original poster can click on the "This helped me" at the bottom of a particular post. I just did it to yours. You'll see a number in parentheses saying how many people did that. Click on the number and you can see who. I don't really know what purpose it serves, though.

If several helpfuls are clicked on the same message the poster will get points. The number of clicks is "classified".

I missed that memo. Good to know. Thanks.

You can give 2 stars per thread. Receiver gets 5 status points per star. On reaching a certain number of points you advance a level. Each level advancement brings you additional privileges. See below Link

https://discussions.apple.com/static/apple/tutorial/reputation.html.

The more posts you have, the more chances for stars, and consequent advancement in ranks. I just figured out that some people with heaps of time on their hands do exactly that by writing random posts with no added value to the matter in discussion.

Your post is interesting, but incorrect, and has nothing to do with the subject we were discussing. The only posts that count for points are those in response to the OP (Original Post), and only the Original Poster can award "points". So making lots of posts in a thread does not help anyone advance unless they were in response to the OP AND the OP decides they were helpful and marks them as helpful.

So it is NOT true that the more posts you have, the more chances for stars, unless your post really was helpful to the OP and they acknowledged it. About 20% of OPs bother to actually click the Helpful or Solved buttons that only they see, even when a post was helpful. And some of them mark their own response as Solved, so no one gets points for those.

But we were discussing the "this helped me" link. This is NOT the same as the Helpful and Solved buttons that only the OP sees. If you've never made an original post you've never seen these buttons, so it's natural that you wouldn't know they existed. Or perhaps you didn't notice them. The "This helped me" link on every message did nothing until recently. It appears now that if a lot of people click it (the actual number is probably greater than 5) the post will get a point. But you can look around and you will find that there aren't any that have a large number of clicks, so it is still irrelevant.