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Small niggles

Forum|Forum|16 years ago
May 15, 2009
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As requested, a thread for annoying little things that we hope can be easily fixed - not the biggies like failing to go back to where you last read, being logged out mid-post, lack of NNTP etc - just niggly little things.

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http://forums.adobe.com/message/2007641#2007641

Sorry folks, but word has come down from above that abuse of the point system is counter-productive. There are management types that actually believe some users see points as an incentive to provide a quality answer, and that they wouldn't do so without the points, but that's not a widely held opinion among hosts. Nevertheless, I have to lock the thread, and warn you that at some point there will be official sanctions for those who post threads with the sole purpose of gaming the point system.

"official sanctions"? like what the h@#$ll do they think they can do? you can't lock out people making death threats and you think you're going to f@%k people over for gaming the f@#$ing points system?!!

YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE SAME PEOPLE WHO HAVE HELPED ADOBE FOR FREE WITH THEIR TIME AND EXPERTISE FOR YEARS!!!

F**#K YOU!!!

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Had to google him.

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Anonymous

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Anonymous

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Anonymous

Has someone asked for "breadcrumbs" (Adobe Forums > Adobe general forums > Forum comments links) at the BOTTOM of the page so that we don't have to scroll all the way back up to the top of the screen to go back? Back button works but only if you're on the first page.

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Harron_K_Appleman

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You mean like this?

They've been there for a while now.

What's disappointing is, if you're on, say, the second page of the main list of topics, you can't get back to that second page with a single click or the 'back' button. Either of those always lands you on the first page of the topic list.

It would be nice to be able to easily get back to where you were in the list.

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Anonymous

The're just too far away from the previous line of text.

Claudio González

Legend

Sometimes, a message gets posted again and again and again (in this forum, this problem seems to affect almost exclusively S.D.A.). Surely this problem must have a better solution than just locking the affected thread?

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Anonymous

Here's a niggle.

If your post is unlucky enough to end as the last on the page, people coming in afterwards via the "Last Post" link (instead of the "Last Read"), will never see it once a reply has been posted.

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Anonymous

these Jive guys must be all smoking medical Marijuana.

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Anonymous

thank you for deleting post 42. i actually went to look to report myself for profanity, but oddly, it seems you can't report your own post. a small niggle in itself.

if a user were to post say personal info then realize that they screwed up, they couldn't report it themselves. they'd have to hope some kind stranger would come along and report it for them. the report abuse button, should be on for all posts at all times.

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Anonymous

dave milbut wrote:
thank you for deleting post 42. i actually went to look to report myself for profanity, but oddly, it seems you can't report your own post. a small niggle in itself.

42? Isn't that my post calling the Jive developers a bunch of amateurs? (Well, almost all my posts probably do that, but still.)

Maybe I could edit it to add some profanity in there, if you'd like. [big obnoxious smiley here, for email users]

Would be nice to have a way to ask admins to delete posts that you can no longer edit.

Of course, it would be nicer if the Jives that created this thing didn't prevent you from editing at all (after a reply?), and instead just posted a "last modified" timestamp. Like a normal forum does.

Mark_A__Boyd

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Emoticons/smilies.

Would like an option to turn off the graphic smilies in the forum.

More importantly, they do not get sent in the email notifications. It really should send text-based emoticons in the emails.

Phillip M Jones

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Mark A. Boyd wrote:
Emoticons/smilies.
Would like an option to turn off the graphic smilies in the forum.
More importantly, they do not get sent in the email notifications. It really should send text-based emoticons in the emails.

come on man! emoticons! you working up a sweat about smilies? if you don't want to use them don't use them. the menu for them takes up little space.

My goodness. The sudden dreaded log out in the middle of posting is the most important And second having to log in every 4-24 hrs is the next.

They need a permanent cookie not tied to the adobe store. That let you stay logged on for 30 years.

Mark_A__Boyd

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PjonesCET wrote:

come on man! emoticons! you working up a sweat about smilies? if you don't want to use them don't use them. the menu for them takes up little space.

No, I don't work up a sweat about them, it is just niggly little thing, to use Kath's words. That is why I posted it in the "Small niggles" thread. I am not talking about the menu, either. Many typed emoticons get replaced automatically while typing, . I didn't use the menu at all for those. I think having the choice for viewing would be nice (even WebX offered that), but in either case, emoticons should be sent out via the email notifications. Haven't you noticed that this doesn't happen?

As for your other points, they are much to important for the Small niggles thread - and are already covered in multiple threads anyway.

[Edit: I may be misremembering WebX's smilie feature]

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Anonymous

Correct answer

http://forums.adobe.com/message/2007641#2007641

Sorry folks, but word has come down from above that abuse of the point system is counter-productive. There are management types that actually believe some users see points as an incentive to provide a quality answer, and that they wouldn't do so without the points, but that's not a widely held opinion among hosts. Nevertheless, I have to lock the thread, and warn you that at some point there will be official sanctions for those who post threads with the sole purpose of gaming the point system.

"official sanctions"? like what the h@#$ll do they think they can do? you can't lock out people making death threats and you think you're going to f@%k people over for gaming the f@#$ing points system?!!

YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE SAME PEOPLE WHO HAVE HELPED ADOBE FOR FREE WITH THEIR TIME AND EXPERTISE FOR YEARS!!!

F**#K YOU!!!

Kath-HAuthor

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10 ironic points for dave

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Anonymous

In the imortal words of Drew Carey: "1000 points to everyone"

Claudio González

Legend

Coming back to topic, as I understand things, this should be an easy one:

Why not change the default text type to a more readable one?

This had been requested earlier, but nothing happened:

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/419471?tstart=240

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Anonymous

Speaking of readable text, how about Jive figures out a way to actually not cut off the bottom of low dipping letters like "y" or "p" in our forum names? Jive crap forums makes y = v and p = o. How crummy can this get... can't even display simple text properly! How amateur of them. That's what they get for being all fancy, and stupid.

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