that is not unheard of in the former forums ... it was intentional then.

One of the later deleted messages confirmed, it was just copy and paste. Not the infamous bug.

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/505192?tstart=0

I know this isn't exactly spam, but is anyone ever going to do anything about this guy?

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

He was here for a while stirring the pot, now he is back again. This guy posts questions and then turns around and refer to other software and wants to know why PS isn't the same as the other software. And when users suggest ways for him to accomplish what he wants he always turns around and continues arguing with the other users.

I think he needs to be "warned" I mean after all there are posts that have been deleted that are not nearly as bad as his.

perhaps the use of the smiley was too much maybe JVD interpreted it as being sarcastic.

well, posts 250 & 251 make no sense to me ...

Spam alert in the Forum Comments:  http://forums.adobe.com/thread/505707?tstart=0

exactly what I was referring to. 

Sorry, I referred to my own deleted post - but only because I'm annoyed that a post expressing appreciation for an improvement in Jochem's manner got deleted as abuse. I could explain further, but I'd only get in trouble for quoting 'abusive' material.

The one thing that is really "abusive" in this particular Forum is a Moderator who abuses his power by censoring and purging ANY comment that is in the least critical of his performance.

I don't know from which country this Moderator originates, but in the USA and in the UK we are entitled to the right to Free Speech and, if you really want to infuriate people, you will attempt to muzzle them and deny them those rights!

Well, this won't last but here it is anyway. Jochem, that is just bloody silly. If the operations people could make themselves useful, they need to get in here and do it, not cower away in a corner with their hands over their sensitive little ears. If you're right and there really people who really could fix things, they need to just do it. Once there's some useful action on their part, obviously the complaining will die down. And isn't that the point?

People don't like being told what to do (at least humans don't). And if grown-up normal people feel they are doing no more than they are entitled to, and someone comes along and starts punishing them like naughty children, they get very, very cross.

For pete's sake, get those operations people busy and tell them to stop being such cry-babies.

jochemd wrote:

 

Several moderators have been trying to get

'operations' type people to subscribe to the "Slow..." thread. Those are

the people who, when a problem occurs, actually have the power to

escalate an issue to Jive.

If you had mentioned that instead of just telling people to stay on topic you would have got a better response.

People tend to pay more attention to reasonable requests than to orders.

You have the reputation (which has spread well outside the hallowed halls of adobe) for being over-rigorous and impersonal. (Please note I am not being abusive here, it is just what a read in other places.)

Why not try and cultivate the respect of the disgruntled old-timers?

This fly is buzzing around my email and dropping some little small crappies:

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

How can I mark a user as "inappopriate"?

Ann Shelbourne wrote:

I don't know from which country this Moderator originates, but in the USA and in the UK we are entitled to the right to Free Speech and, if you really want to infuriate people, you will attempt to muzzle them and deny them those rights!

There were a couple of posts and a thread by somebody on these lines... he got short shrift...

Hmmm……so is there a history here of someone who is prone to repeat his actions endlessly?

I just wonder if that would be the same individual who cannot keep his finger from pressing the "Report Abuse" Button?

How convenient to be able to do that anonymously so that the rest of us will never discover the culprit.

Perhaps we should retaliate and start clicking the "Report Abuse" Button on all of his threads too?!

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 01:40:11PM -0600, Ozzwoman9 uttered:

 

Sorry, but I just wanted to jump in to say this one last thing, then I too am leaving this thread alone as it's just going in circles...

Jochem, In my view and probably of a lot of the other "silent majority"

it's time to ban/kick these people out. They're not helping anything and

despite repeated attempts to them to stop, they persist in repeating

everything ad nausem, criticize and are basically obnoxious towards

others.

I just find the above pretty ironic...I mean how many times were you politely asked to stop posting through email because you were breaking threads with your repeating post bug.

 

So technically you fall under your own category, so therefore you too should be banned

Technically?! Your argument is so weak that you need to resort to

"technical" arguments? Oh well ...

I'm not the reason why so many people are afraid to ask questions on many

of the forums that the obnoxious loud people frequent, (you all know whom

you are). The behaviour exacerbated here is the prime reason of this. Not

a repeating bug that is now fixed.

No one wants to ruin their day by visiting forums which often resort to

the childish name calling behaviour that so called adults have exhibited

here and elsewhere on these forums. You folks marginalize any valid input

you may have had in the past or the future because of this. I hope you're

proud to have driven away the very people you all wanted here in the

first place to answer the groups questions. They shouldn't have to put up

with the tone or abuse, and I don't blame them for not wanting to participate.

Bad karma.

Like a popular movie once said "Stupid is as Stupid does"!

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It made no sense … but it was certainly "Abusive" so button was clicked! (I have never done that to anyone else!)

Just to keep everything out in the open with none of this sneaking around behind closed doors, this is my complaint in full (but it had to be truncated in the Report Abuse box):

This message was extremely abusive to all of the long-serving regular members by an individual who I have never seen being helpful in the slightest degree by answering technical questions in a Products Forum [unsubstantiated allegation removed by moderator]