What About Moderators in the New Forum?

Oh, and I must stick up for Murray. He annoyed the heck out of me when he bounced into the Golive forums unannounced, with his endless autoquotes and apparently self-aggrandising title I'd never seen before. Now he's dropped the infuriating auto-quotes, and I understand what the title means (although he's stopped using it) and been around a while, I have to say he's one of the most helpful and knowledgable people in there and has helped me and others a lot.

AFAIK he doesn't even use Golive - but maybe those forums are a bit different, in that any web authoring application is only really an attempt to put an easy-to-use skin over the code, which works on the same principles whatever helper-app people use.

As a side issue, I hope the Golive forums don't disappear even though the product is discontinued, I've currently no intention of switching. Although I work much more 'under the hood' these days I really like the ease of use for website management.

Maybe be if there is anyone ( ;) ) else as irritable as I am, we should just hold our water a bit more :)

Pure coincidence, but I've just shot myself in the foot over in InDesign Windows - I was there searching for any posts that might help me with a problem related to the printing of certain pdfs placed into ID, and no-one on the Mac side has the answer (or in the Acrobat forum so far). I spotted what I thought was an easy question, so jumped in with a suggestion - which, it turns out, won't work in Windows.

I think it's the kind of thing that would crop up more often in a merged forum.

http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b816ba/3

I think at the moment, with the problems with the Apple OS on the one side and the 64 bit situation on the Windows side, it would be better to leave them separate for Photoshop. It can be considered later.

There are other differences too.

It does seem to be just a few rabid Photoshop Mac users that are are so upset, so let's keep them in their own pen.

Funny. We certainly seem to share opinions of each other. I'm not sure what to then do about the non-disaster that is currently running with the legacy MM products, and has been for ohhh 10 years or more.

>ANY attempt to combine the Mac and Windows Photoshop Forums will end in disaster.
>
>Guaranteed

It always has.

The last person in the world to whose opinion I'd give any weight is this Murray guy.

@Cindy

I am also a Mac user. I have to be to be a successful web developer, and to help people on the forums, too. So, I do know what it's like, and I see the merged forums work every day. There are plenty of Mac-specific questions answered there. I even do some myself since I can so conveniently test my responses.

@Ann

I don't know where you got the idea that I was putting my oar into a discussion about merging the Photoshop forum. I'm very particular about where I allow my oar to go....

> I don't care at all whether the PS forum is merged.

Good!

> However, I do care whether the DW/FW/Flash forums are merged.

I don't balk too much at that although I would prefer a Mac forum for DW. There have been many times I had problems specific to Mac and just couldn't get the help. Also I believe there are Mac users who prefer GL simply because of the Mac help.

You don't really know what it is like since you are a Windows user.

Well, in that case, don't stick your oar into a discussion about merging the Photoshop Forums.

@Cindy

I don't care at all whether the PS forum is merged. I have never touted that the PS forum be merged. At one time I questioned whether it would make sense to merge the GL forums. Now that GL is gone, that's moot. However, I do care whether the DW/FW/Flash forums are merged. Note my previous question to this effect (#262).

Murry, I am wondering why you care whether Photoshop forums are merged. You have been touting this from way back. Are you just trying to poke the Bear?

We do not want it. Oh sure, there are a few but basically it is Windows users who are always wanting this not Mac users. And what is the big deal leaving it the way it is?