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Ansury wrote:
Still wrong PJ, the J is capitalized.
(Okay, so that's a little anal retentive.)
Doesn't really make a lot of difference, other I had a lot more post under the Macromedia Account than they show, under sign in of User name And under sign in of username my Pname is in all caps.
Because he is part of the conspiracy. Don't you see that?
Ansury wrote:
Honestly I just wanted to type "anal retentive" in here, it fits the forum well.
So wait, I missed something important (not really) here-- WHY do you have two accounts in the first place? Why not just ditch one and keep your sanity?
dec9 wrote:
Because he is part of the conspiracy. Don't you see that?
This is what i posted in the "Report spam... " thread:
This is getting weirder and weirder... people claiming to be 'moderators' of one or forum, denying they are so in another forum and then, in the denied forum, behaving like a moderator... and all the while sailing under dual flags?!!!
And they can't decide if they're 'Hosts' or 'Moderators'! JIVE, a very apt name 
PjonesCET wrote:
I've explained before. it was as a result of the Hostile takeover of Macromedia...
I'm curious here. Why do you call it a "hostile takeover". How do you know this?
Mind you I don't make it a point to follow such things. I mean, I know Adobe acquired Macromedia and all. But I don't recall seeing anything with respect to the situation being "hostile".
Cheers... Rick
Hi Ansury
Adobe being the behemoth it is seems to have many different databases. If you are one of the "fortunate few" that has multiple accounts to deal with, it's not as simple as it may seem to consolidate. For example I also am a moderator for the Community Help area. One account has capabilities for that and the other doesn't. In yet another area, one account has purchases and the other doesn't. So unfortunately it's not as cut and dried as it may seem.
So why post as different identities? I've heard nearly all of you complain about the logging in and out bit and how frustrating and slow it is. Just because I don't choose to vocalize my own frustrations doesn't mean I don't share them as well.
This means that if I'm already logged in as one identity, by golly I'm not going to waste all the time it takes to log out and back in as one specific identity to post. I think aside from the forum names I've made efforts to show both accounts are one and the same individual if anyone decides to compare notes.
Cheers all... Rick
Yes, you/we shouldn't have to wait 30 minutes to login each time, nor should we have to login every hour.
So to sum up the list of problems:
1) Adobe's fault - No process for merging duplicate accounts, or at least transferring purchased product registrations to new accounts
2) Adobe's fault - Login is absurdly slow and Adobe either doesn't care or is completely unable to resolve
3) Jive's fault - I'm sure they have something to do with this, just not sure what yet.
You could have just said it was all Adobe's fault in the first place instead of dragging out the conversation. 
(Oh yeah, I forgot community experts must swear a blood oath forbidding them from saying anything remotely critical or negative about the Adobe gods.)
Whatever I'm glad we could get this important (not really) discussion out of the way. Maybe now we can get back to the topic of the mass exodus of expertise from these jiveware-boards*?
*I refuse to refer to this software as "web forums" anymore, as it is not deserving of the title.
Less than a minute? 
That might be acceptable if we didn't have to login twice a day.
We're talking about no less than 3 separate bugs here, that's what's really sad.
-No login persistence > 1 day
-No login timer reset when you visit the page (causing the post losses)
-Horrid login times
Any one of which, if they were resolved, would greatly reduce frustration. Yet not a single one has been addressed yet after months. That's what I call "getting jived".
Time to cut losses and split the store login off to another system, guys (Adobe). You can even migrate the credentials (hopefully hashes..) on a nightly basis to keep the two accounts in sync. That's not so hard. And it's not unreasonable to require people to put in their creds just before they access the store. In fact, that's how it should be anyway.
Oh, how cute! I just ran into the logged out bug and almost lost this whole post. @#%!@$!#%!@@#% !!!!
AND I just ran into the "update didn't take" bug and had to edit this twice. F* awesome!
Less than a minute?
If it took me half an hour (which I have seen mentioned by others as well), I would probably not be here even to the limited extent that I am!
Any one of which, if they were resolved, would greatly reduce frustration. Yet not a single one has been addressed yet after months. That's what I call "getting jived".
It's truly remarkable that so very, very little seems to have been accomplished in six months.
Oh, how cute! I just ran into the logged out bug and almost lost this whole post. @#%!@$!#%!@@#% !!!!
I still have that happen occasionally too, despite knowing that I can be logged out randomly at any time. I find it profoundly discouraging. "Takes all the wind out of my sails", so to speak.. We should not be expected to add "copy entire post before attempting to post it" to our workflow!
AND I just ran into the "update didn't take" bug and had to edit this twice. F* awesome!
It's not just awesome, it's Jive-a-licious!
(Copying post before hitting "Post Message" button......)
AKA Robocop though doesn't have an account by that name.
So, take his phonebooth away. End of problem.
PjonesCET wrote:
When he don's his moderator suite he changes into the Captiv8or prosona. When he is on another Forum which he is answering questions, but not a Moderator he changes into the RoboWizard prosona.
Or, He may have been a member of the Macromedia Forum under RoboWizard. And joined under Capiv8or in Adobe forums so he could captivate the audience with his answers, then became a more apt Title as a Moderator.
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