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Claudio González
Claudio González
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July 2, 2012
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Community Help messages

  • July 2, 2012
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I was disconcerted by the following message from Community Help:

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1031662?tstart=0

First, there is for me a lack of logic in the message itself. Thinking that this could be due to a faulty translation, I looked for a recent similar message in English, and the fault is also there:

You see, there is no question in the message, but is says "this question was posted in response to the following article" (my emphasis), then it gives a link to an article, period. No response to anything.

The situation is even more disconcerting in the forum in Spanish (one single forum for all Adobe products), as there is no indication whatsoever to the product the message refers to. True, in the case of the forum in Spanish, the message from Community Help is followed by a question from a participant which may or may not be related with the article in the link (which is fairly long so I didn't feel like checking if it did). In the case of the message in the screenshot above there is no second message, so it's difficult for me to imagine in answer to what was the message posted.

Am I being much more dumb than usual, or there is some lack of logic in this?

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    Dave Merchant
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    July 3, 2012

    What should have happened is the user's actual question (as they entered into the CH application) is appended as reply one to that thread - it's a bit of a fiddle but the only way to get the CH system to post into the forums. Unfortunately there are some edge case scenarios where the question doesn't make it through - the engineers are aware of this and working on it.

    Claudio González
    Claudio GonzálezAuthor
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    July 3, 2012

    Thanks, Dave, but I am still unable to follow the logic of this:

    This question was posted in response to the following article

    (my emphasis again), because:


    1. there is no question in the message, either original or in response to something;
    2. if "this question" refers to the following message by a participant (which you say should appear always but sometimes doesn't), that message is not responding anything but formulating a question, and
    3. hopefully the answer to the question in that message would be contained in the article on the link.

    Not being a native English speaker, I feel it's almost presumptuous of me to suggest an alternative but, wouldn't something along these lines be at least a little more logical?

    This is a link to an article that responds (to) the question in the following/the next message:

    (link here).

    (no doubt native English speakers should be able to produce better sounding alternatives).

    And perhaps the situation would be even more clear if the message with the original question could be appended/quoted in the message from Community Help.


    Jacob Bugge
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    Jacob BuggeCommunity Expert
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    July 3, 2012

    You are quite right, Claudio.

    The rather strange thing to express is that someone read an article and posted a question about it in (some other place called) Community Help, and now the article and question form the beginning of the current thread here (in the hopefully relevant forum).

    I would suggest something like this:

    This article gave rise to the question below, originally posted in Community help:

    [Article link]

    I believe there is no reason to muddle things even more by stating the fact that the contents of the forum thread is mirrored in Community Help (and also the other way round).

    As far as I remember, other threads about the matter seem to imply that there is no (easy) way to create an OP with both the article and the question, which would be (more) self explanatory.

    pwillener
    pwillener
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    July 3, 2012

    A possibility: someone posted spam or other moronic content, and a moderator deleted the message, but left the stem standing.

    Claudio González
    Claudio GonzálezAuthor
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    July 3, 2012

    Pat Willener wrote:

    A possibility: someone posted spam or other moronic content, and a moderator deleted the message, but left the stem standing.

    Thanks, Pat, but one can respond to a previous message, not to a later one.

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