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Report spam or inappropriate posts here

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January 25, 2009
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This topic is reserved to report spam and other inappropriate content requiring attention. Please, no unnecessary comment or response.

NOTE: Please click on the user name of the poster of such content and provide that link here.

Thanks!

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Anonymous

Blatant spam: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/424882?tstart=0

Ramón G Castañeda

Inspiring

http://forums.adobe.com/message/1920509#1920509

This post contain the link to a web site that has terribly bad advice, and which has been mercifully excised by insightful hosts in the past, whenever it has been posted in the Photoshop Macintosh forum.

It's wrong-headed advice that will cause unending grief by messing up the workflow of whoever follows it.

Wish there were negative points for things like this.

Yes, I reported it through the Report Abuse button too, clarifying it's not abuse as such but it has detrimental effects.

Phos_four_dots

Inspiring

Also reported using the "Report Abuse" function.

Blatant spam:

http://forums.adobe.com/message/1920510#1920510

Claudio González

Legend

Hidden links to a commercial site hidden in this completely unrelated message:

http://forums.adobe.com/message/1908444#1908444

Claudio González

Legend

I gather that this thread is no longer closely watched by mods/hosts?

Phillip M Jones

Inspiring

Bob,

You at least partly missed my point about having to use what's here. Yes, you can make a conscious effort to look for another forum, and you might find one that has information as good, and that is easier or more convenient. But if you want to continue as part of the Adobe Community effort, this is what you have. Endless complaining isn't going to change that.

During the testing period there were several people who found ways to script their browsers to show and hide various parts of the page, and adjust widths and such. Ramon Castañeda was one, if memory serves. Personally, I just ignore most of it until I find a use for it (it's easier, for example to click on your avatar to get to your profile than to find you doing a people search, should I want to send you private message, which is actually a nice new feature we didn't have in the WebX forums).

And no, I don't work for Adobe, though I have some contacts who do. John Himself has said many times that the WebX forum, in its current form, was so completely customized and proprietary as to no longer be scalable, or suited to a merged forum, and that the people who had written the code were no longer with the company, essentially meaning it would require starting from scratch to accomplish the primary goal of merging the two forums. A business decision was made (and you can interpret that any way you like) to work with a vendor who could supply an off-the-shelf solution that would likely work for many years to come, and who would, one hopes, provide the talent and resources to maintain and improve the product, which is their primary focus, while Adobe's focus is on developing software for graphics professionals to do their work.

Even if it were technically possible to go back to the old forums (and splitting up the platform combined forums like InDesign would require someone to manually examine each thread), the old contracts have expired, new ones have been signed, and it would mean abandoning the primary goal of merging the old MM forums into a single unified Adobe presence. That just isn't going to happen.

Peter

P Spier wrote:
Bob,
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Even if it were technically possible to go back to the old forums (and splitting up the platform combined forums like InDesign would require someone to manually examine each thread), the old contracts have expired, new ones have been signed, and it would mean abandoning the primary goal of merging the old MM forums into a single unified Adobe presence. That just isn't going to happen.
Peter

Who said the two camps wanted to be merged. From my impression of users of Macromedia They were very unhappy campers at prospect of Adobe taking Macromedia over. (Yes I know, it was mutually agreed upon deal that made the Macromedia Stock holders happy.) But the customers were not. Usually, a talented company creates great products. and a great fan base of customers. Then a Large company with more money, but Products that are beginning to get old, wants to polish their image. So they either forcibly take over another company or Offers the Stock holders, so much money they can't refuse. The the Customers, are let down, because they know eventually products they have become accustomed to using be folded into another product they don't like or want, or outright abandoned.

DreamWeaver is an example for me. I haven't updated studio 8 yet. Because I look at the problems acrobat has splitting PDF's into parts every time they encounter MS Word Page and sections breaks. This has been an on going problem since Acrobat 1 and Word 6/95. And Finally MS gave up and installed their own PDF converter that removes those problems except when a section or page break is accompanied by a page orientation shift.

Frankly I never wanted the two camps to be merged. It was the customers suggestions.

Claudio González

Legend

The first screenshot in my previous message #190 shows two topics with the same name opened at about the same time by the same person. In a quick look, I didn't notice any difference between both OPs. In the old days, we would call this a "duplicate thread/topic".

Claudio González

Legend

I'm sure I must have reported this post in due time, but have no way to check, and the message is still there, with its links to commercial sites:

http://forums.adobe.com/message/1130168#1130168

Zeno Bokor

Inspiring

If i'm not mistaken, you can only report a post once after which the report button changes to "already reported" or something like that

Kath-H

Inspiring

Ah, but DK said that if enough people report a post it's automatically deleted. She doesn't know how many.

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

John, this thread has the advantage that we report the poster, not the post, thus making it easier to clean up. And the advantage that (older) natives have no need to use what they may not see, especially if they have got rid of all the new uglies.

Thank you, Dorothy.

Zeno Bokor

Inspiring

you can add links/text to your abuse report. I don't see the point in removing the Report Abuse button, the icon maybe but not the whole button

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Anonymous

I don't see the point in removing the Report Abuse button, the icon maybe but not the whole button

Furthermore the old spam-or-inappropriate-posts thread was actually only known to a few regulars.

The new button is there for all to see.

Much better.

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

http://forums.adobe.com/people/tococontenteditor

Should this thread not be made floating? Until now it has been sinking, difficult to find.

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Anonymous

Why do we even need it if we have the Report Abuse button and a nice text field to write in?

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Anonymous

We'll get a link to it in a sidebar box at least.

Peter Spier

Community Expert

Here's a new one:

http://forums.adobe.com/people/Digital%20Color%20Imaging

He's spammed http://forums.adobe.com/message/1876632#1876632

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Anonymous

Looks like someone killed it already.

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D__McCahill

Known Participant

(SAMNOL) has been spamming the e-learning section http://forums.adobe.com/community/design_development/elearning. He is in about a half dozen messages.

Kath-H

Inspiring

Well I hope you've grassed him up good and proper. Give that abuse button a pounding

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D__McCahill

Known Participant

Well I hope you've grassed him up good and proper. Give that abuse button a pounding

That abuse button is bs. We used to be able to post something here and it was cleaned up in hours, if no minutes. I reported those spams a week ago and nothing is done. And I do not intend to go through 14 spams and press the abuse button and fill in a form on each.

Don

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