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Claudio González
Claudio González
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September 23, 2011
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Is this a glitch, or normal behaviour?

  • September 23, 2011
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I understood that if the original poster marked a post as the Correct Answer, that post was immediately embedded in the opening post, and the thread was automatically marked as Answered. However, I have just seen this in the forums in Spanish, with the first answered marked as Correct but with the question marked "Assumed Answered" and no embedding:

Is this normal, or a glitch?

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    Jacob Bugge
    Community Expert
    Jacob BuggeCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    September 25, 2011

    Argh, I see, Claudio.

    Claudio González
    Claudio GonzálezAuthor
    Legend
    September 25, 2011

    Jacob, it must have been a temporary glitch. I got another participant to add a message in my test thread in the forum in Spanish, marked it as Correct with the thread marked as Assumed Answered, and got again what is now the normal behaviour in these cases.

    J
    joe_bloe_premiere
    Inspiring
    September 25, 2011

    Nice research, Claudio.

      <--a smiley!

    Noel Carboni
    Noel Carboni
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    September 24, 2011

    If we are lucky, it means that it is possible to BOTH mark the thread Assumed Answered AND mark an answer as Correct and thereby avoid the embedding

    Do I understand that some of you are going out of your way to avoid an embedded correct answer?

    May I ask why?  It's not like the "Correct Answer" should be embarrassing or that it detracts.

    The forum is what it is, made that way on purpose...  Do you think you need to game it to make it "better" somehow?

    -Noel

    Claudio González
    Claudio GonzálezAuthor
    Legend
    September 24, 2011

    Noel Carboni wrote:

    If we are lucky, it means that it is possible to BOTH mark the thread Assumed Answered AND mark an answer as Correct and thereby avoid the embedding

    Do I understand that some of you are going out of your way to avoid an embedded correct answer?

    May I ask why?  It's not like the "Correct Answer" should be embarrassing or that it detracts.

    The forum is what it is, made that way on purpose...  Do you think you need to game it to make it "better" somehow?

    -Noel

    Maybe not, but we can try avoiding that it is made any worse. Embedded "correct" answers are not an improvement.

    Noel Carboni
    Noel Carboni
    Legend
    September 24, 2011

    Again you write your opinion as unassailable fact - which says what, exactly, to people who don't happen to agree with you?

    But thanks for your thoughts. 

    It's not really up to us to say what is "better" or "worse", IMO.  That's already been decided.

    People who get feedback about what's wrong with the forum from lots of people who have tried to use it apparently thought that making the "Correct" answer more prominent was a Good Thing for future folks who find threads via searches.  Who are we to question that?

    Frankly I wouldn't blame the folks who run the site one bit if they were to consider trying to circumvent the Correct Answer embedding mechanism a form of forum abuse!

    But hey, knock yourselves out.

    -Noel

    Jacob Bugge
    Community Expert
    Jacob BuggeCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    September 24, 2011

    Claudio, Joe.

    If we are lucky, it means that it is possible to BOTH mark the thread Assumed Answered AND mark an answer as Correct and thereby avoid the embedding; it may be necessary to do it in that order.

    If that is the case, there may be something for John and the team to work on now, rather than hope/wait for a change some day as a result of the feature request linked to in post #4 here:

    http://forums.adobe.com/thread/904380?tstart=0

    Obviously, someone will have to try the possible combinations, and there may be some pondering over how it may be done.

    It it is just the way it works in the Spanish forum (and maybe in the French, German, and Japanese forums), maybe a renaming is called for, to the Blessed Forum(s).

    Claudio González
    Claudio GonzálezAuthor
    Legend
    September 24, 2011

    Jacob, I have just attempted it in the Testing forum, and it didn't work:

    http://forums.adobe.com/message/3935807#3935807

    I don't have the time now, but perhaps later today I will try again in the forum in Spanish.

    Incidentally, I have doing some moretesting on these new features here, and would appreciate help from others:

    http://forums.adobe.com/thread/905948?tstart=0

    J
    joe_bloe_premiere
    Inspiring
    September 23, 2011

    I did that here in the AE forum simply to avoid

    embedding a response in the first post.

    I marked 'Assumed Answered', but did not assign a correct answer.

    Maybe this is what happened in your example?

    edit:

    Is that an OP designated 'Correct Answer' ath the bottom of your screenshot?

    Claudio González
    Claudio GonzálezAuthor
    Legend
    September 23, 2011

    joe bloe premiere wrote:

    I did that here in the AE forum simply to avoid

    embedding a response in the first post.

    I marked 'Assumed Answered', but did not assign a correct answer.

    Maybe this is what happened in your example?

    edit:

    Is that an OP designated 'Correct Answer' ath the bottom of your screenshot?

    The bottom of the screenshot is the beginning of the first answer of the thread (message #1), that has been marked as the Correct Answer by someone I have no way of knowing who. So it is not the same case of your cunning way to avoid embedding messages...

    J
    joe_bloe_premiere
    Inspiring
    September 23, 2011

    Interesting.

    If it works that way on a Spanish forum, why not here?

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