Banned Participants Question

Curt Wrigley wrote: LRK, To answer your question; People are only banned if they repeatedly violate the forum guidelines. Forum etiquette and best practices Only Adobe employees can make the decision to ban a user and only Adobe employees have the authority to execute a ban.

I seriously doubt that the participant with the screen name QPhoto violated the forum guidelines. It's just not his character to behave in a way that is troublesome. He himself does not know what he did to be banned. This vague rhetoric is annoying. I don't know what to think about you people.

Hi Cindy

I respectfully disagree. Basically I believe that what happened was Adobe fell a bit lax on enforcing good conduct in a few places. They only have so many folks to monitor hundreds of forums. So they appointed or allowed different folks to become moderators and help out. What has happened is the direct result of some folks taking things too far with bad behavior and off color comments that were directed at specific individuals. Essentially, ignoring stated policy. Even to the point of taunting moderators.

I have no doubt that there were some that were good contributors. But offering help with products and being far too critical of things that cannot be changed are different things.

In my own opinion there never was any sort of plan. Only some pretty awful reactions by a few very vocal folks. In some cases, it would almost seem that the folks wanted banning to occur in order to become a martyr for the cause to point out how "unjust" it is to expect certain behavior.

Cheers... Rick