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Sandee Cohen
Sandee Cohen
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March 20, 2009
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Little things annoy me

  • March 20, 2009
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b Points

I don't like is this concept of "points". I really don't like the competitive energy of those points. I've been to non-business forums where people award each other "karma." It's stupid and can be petty when someone has more karma than others.

I have no idea who gives points to others, but I don't like them.

I wouldn't mind a record of when joined or how many posts, but I think that belongs in a profile, not next to the responses.

b Answering posts

Who marks a message as answered? As mentioned before, the OP could state the post is answered, but others could find a problem.

Will there be a way for the Forum Moderator to amend an answered post as "With Note"?

b Sorting the messages

Will there be a way to sort according to the OP? If not, it seems a waste of a column.

I'm sure I will have other issues that I'll add later.
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    _Phos_four_dots_
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    March 25, 2009
    I've been riding a bicycle for 46 years.

    But I'm not entering any races anytime soon.
    PJonesCET
    PJonesCET
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    March 25, 2009
    Well to mollify 5 or 10 people out of 500,00 Lets just not have Question answered feature. Its really not that important. In the scheme of things its nit-piking. What happening a Few people That don't want any change is hoping That the folks at Adobe will be so fed up the with all the whining and crying. Forget it and kill all forums period.

    I've tried to explain why I think an answered feature is no big deal and who it would or should work. And all I've heard is attacks on my mental state and computer knowledge. I'm not the most experienced After all I am 60 years old (March 28) and only been dealing with computers since 1984. So I'm not exactly a newbie either.

    Take my contacts for what its worth.
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    Anonymous
    March 25, 2009
    I totally agree with everyone who has said that having that "Right Answer" box is a thoroughly BAD idea.

    What would be wrong with the OP merely adding a message to his post to thank the person who he feels was helpful to him?

    Just as it is now.

    Anyone who needs an answer to a similar problem has the ability to run a Search; and can then make the effort to read through the thread and see all of the proffered suggestions.
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    Anonymous
    March 25, 2009
    >are some of the dabblers' answers to questions on colour management. <br /><br /><cough> hi, how ya doin'? :) <cough><cough>
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    Anonymous
    March 25, 2009
    Apart from multiple answers which dave mentioned, glaring examples of answers that "work", but in a seriously flawed way, are some of the dabblers' answers to questions on colour management.

    The given answer may appear to fix a mismatch, but may be totally wrong. And other beginners will see it marked as answered and adopt the solution.

    What's all the talk about who marks it as answered? Nobody needs to mark it as anything. Certainly not the OP!
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    _Phos_four_dots_
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    March 25, 2009
    And THAT, Curt, is why the "Documents" feature would be so useful. A few people could help maintain it, rather than just relying on Hosts.
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    Anonymous
    March 25, 2009
    In a lot of my responses I use a link that has previously discussed the problem. I then do not have to parrot information, and the user can sort out what is useful to them. There can be several posts within that link that deals with the problem, and frequently the problem is solved incrementally. If you only read post # 7 you might not get the full answer.

    I don't see how the community will sort through this mess to decide which post of a link will be the best answer. Or even which post of a thread is the best answer as most build on each other.

    Perhaps we would need a box labeled "half ass best answer"?

    This is not a clean solution like the public, or Adobe, wants, just reality on how life happens.
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    Anonymous
    March 25, 2009
    >MY point is that it shouldn't be the Host's job to chase through and keep up with every thread\

    it's not. that's what the community is for. how often do we ask a host to move something to the FAQ? not very. same thing.
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    _Phos_four_dots_
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    March 25, 2009
    No, Dave I GET what you're saying.

    MY point is that it shouldn't be the Host's job to chase through and keep up with every thread, thn make the determination about whether a question that has been marked "Answered" is well-and-truly answered, and to UN-mark it if necessary. That just seems like too much for an unpaid volunteer to have to be saddled with.

    And your last paragraph points to why the proposed system should be run off into the ditchweeds.
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    Anonymous
    March 25, 2009
    >=I hate to say this, but sometimes, the host isn't the best-qualified person to make that determination

    you misunderstand me phos. in many (most?) cases i anticipate that the one marked "answer" will be cool. it wouldn't be the host to make that decision, but the community coming to a consensus, then we might ask the host to mark another answer as correct. i see a host modifying that answered status as a rare exception, not the rule. but i think it's an important power if we're going to have an "answered" system at all.

    we've all seen cases where some really bad advice got posted. i've heard someone say in here that the hosts will NOT have the ability to change that "answered" mark. if that's the case, i think it's better not to have that feature at all.
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