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What is Ask a question... about?

Forum|Forum|14 years ago
February 25, 2012
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It seems that every page in every forum and every thread now has a separate box at the top saying Ask a question...

Now what is that about, and where will the question appear, if anywhere?

I dare not try it.

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Jacob Bugge

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Pierre,

After your encouragement I picked up courage and found that it was actually another kind of Search, or a roundabout way of starting one.

I feared I should be starting a new thread or something worse.

PECourtejoie

Community Expert

Jacob, why didn't you ask this very question in the ask a question box?

If it just avoids 1% of the too frequently asked questions (how can I do a proportional circle,etc. ), I'm all for it!

Noel Carboni

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Welcome to the new millenium, where we are being groomed to "request" things of our computers, rather than use them as tools.

You do realize that computers will one day just stop answering, right?

-Noel

Jacob Bugge

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Noel,

I stick to those normally considered old, but actually they are the young ones because they stay young forever, and they will never stop answering and being nice and helpful.

Jacob Bugge

Author

Community Expert

Ah, thank you, John.

adobe-admin

Legend

That has been there since November, but it used to say Search instead of Ask.

It searches the current forum space for the text you type in to see if someone else has already started a similar thread. It just pops down a search results list (as it did before), but not also has a button in the results drop down to start a new thread.

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Phillip M Jones

Inspiring

It would be more intuitive let it be the way it was before. It described to tee what it did. Now as you can see from even the hardened regulars here its absolutely confusing. It sounds like you asking whether you want to ask questions about the question. Some times its seems that peope that know too much about computer systems think too logically, and over-think stuff too much. Instead of thinking like the people will be using whatever they are designing.

The Forums are for the users. Unlike the software is written soley to satisfy Company officials and investors. And The forums should be based on what the Users want not what the handlers deem proper.

Captiv8r

Legend

LOL, perhaps it's the Jive equivalent to Siri?

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