What About Moderators in the New Forum?

On graffiti, questions don't avatars slow down loading. Depends on the size of the avatar the one above I put in my post, is saved in jpg format is less than 22k. If the same image was save in gif or png it would be even less. Now if it was animated it would be much smaller.

On graffiti, questions don't avatars slow down loading. Depends on the size of the avatar the one above I put in my post, is saved in jpg format is less than 22k. If the same image was save in gif or png it would be even less. Now if it was animated it would be much smaller.

> "Adobe Community Expert" is a title accorded to individuals who have demonstrated a particular expertise with one or more Adobe products.

David thanks for that reminder; which has been posted in these forum topics recently.

I want "Adobe Community Expert" to be there. It is a meaningful and official designation. I also want Adobe employees that are in the forum officially to be designated. (There is usually a title - such as John's "Adobe Forums Administrator" or many are descriptive of the Adobe program team they work on.)

I don't really care how many posts someone has made, beyond paying attention to someone who is new. I react negatively to titles that confer an expectation of expertise solely based on number of posts.

I have been most intrigued by a coding for whether a question has been answered (obviously won't work for some threads, but for many), and a count of how many answers a poster has to their credit would be interesting.

You're not helping your case, Phil.

If we don't have a user control panel preference to turn that junk off, I'll be AdBlocking every damned one of them.

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(Do you see me smiling? Yeah...didn't think so.)

Okay now see how Little room an avatar can take up and the way setup takes up zero space on the server and if it was inserted beside the screen name would take up some what less also. they could have a set up where they use a picture you upload but crop it to specified size. the cropping would be adjustable for the person uploading the Avatar.

who wants moving avatars?? I don't.

> "Hosts" are always welcome and welcoming: the title conjures-up a pleasant association of ideas.

That's not the impression I get from the disparaging comments about Community Experts in this thread. For the benefit of our "welcoming hosts", permit me to explain a little about the Community Expert programme.

"Adobe Community Expert" is a title accorded to individuals who have demonstrated a particular expertise with one or more Adobe products. The title is awarded by Adobe, and is by no means based purely on the number of times an individual has posted in a forum (although forum participation is taken into consideration). A Community Expert has to be personally approved by the development team for the program he or she represents. A Community Expert's status is reviewed annually, and renewal is by no means automatic.

So, what sort of people are Community Experts?

One of the Community Experts for Illustrator is Mordy Golding, who was Adobe product manager for Illustrator 10 and CS. Another Community Expert (for ColdFusion) is Sean Corfield, formerly Director of Architecture at Macromedia. Others include Joseph Lowery, author of numerous books on Dreamweaver; Chris Georgenes, a highly talented Flash animator and author; and Rich Tretola, who among other things edits the Adobe/O'Reilly InsideRIA website. As for myself, I am the author of six books on PHP and Dreamweaver, and have been deeply involved in the beta testing of Dreamweaver for the past three versions.

Whatever you might think of the title "Adobe Community Expert", please remember we didn't choose it; Adobe chose it for us. But rest assured, we most certainly are not like something you "might find in a Town Hall: bureaucratic, bossy, hide-bound and bloody-minded!" All the Community Experts I have met at Community Summits in San Jose in the past couple of years are extremely knowledgeable, passionate about their field of expertise, and very willing to share that knowledge.

Now, where's that pleasant welcome that "hosts" are meant to be so renowned for? ;-)

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Virtually ALL of us have stated, more than clearly, that we do NOT want to see Avatars and self-promoting "Signatures" of ANY sort and at ANY time.
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FWIW, "ALL of us have stated..." is the opinion of several folks in here and certainly can´t reflect the potential opinion of the whole user community.

Cheers,
Günter Schenk

> Virtually ALL of us have stated, more than clearly, that we do NOT want to see Avatars and self-promoting "Signatures" of ANY sort and at ANY time.

And you thought this was a vote?

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The load time is bad enough on DSL, particularly with the state of the forums that John is trying to fix (we hope). I can only imaging if I was still on my 56k modem (and a few still are!).