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Anonymous
September 17, 2009
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Red Bars for Points

  • September 17, 2009
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Adobe has made a big deal of the points, red bars to distinguish user, participant, contributor, and so forth.  It seems odd that the system can not keep the tallies correct.   A roll over of my name gives me 2 bars, yet the red bars for the contributor is still on 1.  Others have a similar pattern.

Here is the Photoshop forum:

Here is the Bridge forum: 

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    ~graffiti
    ~graffiti
    Legend
    September 17, 2009

    To clear up any confusion, I wish you all would call them "meatballs" since that's what they are.

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    Anonymous
    September 17, 2009

    Done. Meatballs it is!!

    ~graffiti wrote:

    To clear up any confusion, I wish you all would call them "meatballs" since that's what they are.

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    Jesseham
    Inspiring
    September 17, 2009

    Thank you!  I checked in on this discussion to make sure that was understood.  They are meatballs.  Or - "slabs of jive" if you're not into the whole brevity thing.

    That said, I think as it was said above - you get your own meatballs, under your name everywhere based on your total points.  The "top participants" thing shows meatballs based on the points awarded in that particular forum.

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    Anonymous
    September 17, 2009

    I think this was brought up before, it's just another one of the millions of JiveBugs© that you have to live with if you stay here.  The concept of consistency has not yet been invented on the planet Jive.  Yeah put it on the list at bug #5223. +1 Jive bug

    Honestly though I think that's the last thing to look at on Adobe's todo list, rightfully so (assuming Adobe even has a todo list of bugs to fix, not one fixed yet).

    Captiv8r
    Captiv8r
    Legend
    September 17, 2009

    Hi there

    Ansury wrote:

    I think this was brought up before, it's just another one of the millions of JiveBugs© that you have to live with if you stay here.  The concept of consistency has not yet been invented on the planet Jive.  Yeah put it on the list at bug #5223. +1 Jive bug

    Honestly though I think that's the last thing to look at on Adobe's todo list, rightfully so (assuming Adobe even has a todo list of bugs to fix, not one fixed yet).

    I'm not sure what Adobe could do about forum software bugs. The way I see it, Adobe is a Jive customer much the same as we are all Adobe customers.

    So if we find an irritating bug in Photoshop, InDesign or another Adobe application, there is likely nothing we are able to do but report it to Adobe and hope they issue a Service Release or hope that the bug is addressed in the next upgrade of the software. I believe that the priority of the issue being fixed may be dependent upon how many reports they receive.

    I might assume Adobe falls into the same category. We report the issues to them, they forward the issues to Jive. But they in turn have to hope that Jive receives enough reports to warrant a service release of the Jive forums software.

    Cheers... Rick

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    Anonymous
    September 17, 2009

    Captiv8r wrote:

    I'm not sure what Adobe could do about forum software bugs. The way I see it, Adobe is a Jive customer much the same as we are all Adobe customers.

    Well they could have not moved us over to the new forums when this massive list of bugs showed up in "testing" prior to Jive deployment, but it's too late for that now, so you're right.  Thanks to mismanagement probably on the part of some over-eager Adobe exec that wanted another bullet "accomplishment" added to their resume, we're stuck with a bugged mess and I'm sure Jive knows it.  I only repeat myself because it seems new people come in almost every day wondering why things are so screwed up here now, and the answer is pretty much the same every time.

    Ozzwoman9
    Ozzwoman9
    Inspiring
    September 17, 2009

    I had never noticed that before. I thought someone said on here that it had to do with the total number of points one receives.

    Maybe there is a total in someone's profile, then it divides that number up for each forum you are a top participant in(?)

    FYI this is from the Feedback Forum.

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