joe bloe premiere wrote:

 

+1 to what Fuzz sez.

 

the pop-up flyout that appears when the cursor is hovered over a user's

profile name now displays a confusing mish-mash of not just recent activities,

but threads recently updated by someone, in which a user ever participated.

 

I hadn't noticed that until you brought it up. For me it shows threads I last posted in around 2006.

The biggest problem with the Forum upgrade still remains.

Embedding the reply that the original poster has designated as

the 'correct answer' to the original post can be detrimental for a user

who may not read the subsequent responses that provide more

complete (and often better) information regarding the question.

A skimmer may only read the original post with the 'correct' response

as designated by the OP, and reasonably assume it is an officially

Adobe endorsed solution, and not gain the benefit of the nuance

and corrections that will usually follow.

Also, it is often the case that the OP does not recognize a response

as incomplete or entirely incorrect, and designates the post as 'correct'

anyway.

-Ann Bens

"I agree, this feature should go all together.

Half the time its not correct or the correct answer is at

the bottom of the thread or loaded with irrelevant info."

http://forums.adobe.com/message/3924910#3924910

-Todd Kopriva

"I don't much like this feature of embedding the 'correct'

answer out of context, either.  I'll ask about turning it off."

http://forums.adobe.com/message/3924883#3924883

Thanks for the reply.

Does that pertain to what is displayed

in the username pop-up as well?

joe bloe, I hadn't met this new feature, and was completely appalled when I saw it. I think that this thread clearly shows why:

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/903882?tstart=30

The original poster found that the suggestion in the first response worked, and so he marked it as Correct. As a result, it is now not only marked as Correct, but also prominently reproduced inside the opening post as the correct answer. However, that solution was not entirely correc and was later corrected. Also, some other ways of achieving the desired effect were also posted.

Pity that:

1. the original poster never came back to see all this, because he thought he already had his answer; and
2. more likely than not, any newcomer with the the same question, on seeing this very prominent Correct Answer inside the opening message, will think that's the one and only correct answer and will read no further.

And I must say that I was pleasantly surprised by the number and quality of further contributions which will unfortunately be wasted on newcomers.

JC, you say that there appears to be no way to modify this. Was this a feature specifically asked by Adobe? If it wasn't, I would think that Adobe has the right to ask for this undesirable feature to be removed. (Not to mention the ghastly rating stars in the opening message of threads: why should just any anybody/nobody be granted the privilege of rating an opening message on unknown and unspecified criteria?).

If nothing can be done to change things, then it's something that I could live with.

I'll be ok, too.  My eyes have already become conditioned to ignore it.

I do agree that the older "Correct Answer" icon was fine, and was

more effective to absorb and consider within the context of the thread.

It apparently is what it is.

Harbs. wrote:

 

Realistic or not, that's your only option using the new version (unless it's possible to change -- which I doubt).

 

In my experience, the OP usually does a decent job of marking correct answers (if they bother at all).

 

Harbs

I find it a shame that the Adobe team has their hands tied to modify unwanted features.

The OP does many times in the case of seasoned participants. People asking "Why does my Abode not work?" are not qualified to judge and frequently err.

It was bad enough when we just had the Correct Answer icon. Prominently displaying the correct answer inside the opening message will be devastating. And I am not thinking of people like the persons participating in this discussion; we can learn to ignore the message and will suffer no damage. It's all the newcomers who will naively think that no further reading is necessary that worry me. And should worry Adobe and all of us.

Is there ever a truly correct answer for most questions here? Does anybody really know what time its is? Does anybody really care?

As I was walking down the street one day . . .

Sorry.

What I want is those little red flags back!

Just waiting to see a "You're too stupid to use this program, and should go to something basic," marked as the Correct Answer. That has happened several times in the past...

Since the update, all of those illegitimate replies from the past that

were designated as correct are now embedded in the original post.

Someone with lots of time (and wine) on their hands should go

and find, collect and post those threads in the lounge just for

their entertainment value.

Or maybe the MODs are going through them now.

Why not instead of "answered". Just have "helpful" only. That way  additional suggestion could go on.

But it shouldn't matter, according to some. We seasoned participants can quickly learn to ignore all this rubbish. Although, as Jacob says, it's not so easy with "solutions" embedded in the opening message.

Bill Hunt wrote:

 

Yes. My biggest concern would be that others coming to the thread later (now that Search seems to have been fixed), and seeing ONLY the one embedded answer, and ignoring great material further down the thread. However, similar issues have existed from the old layout, where many later readers would skip over early replies, and focus only on later ones. All too often, the skipped replies had the solution.

 

Hence the frequent, humorous reply, "Nobody ever reads Post ____ !"

 

Guess that there is no iron-clad perfection.

 

Hunt

Bill, I know this has been getting worse since the great change of some years ago, but this last straw is not a straw, it's the full trunk of a gigantic tree. And it worries me to see some participants minimizing this problem and even ridiculizing it on the grounds that "we'll soon get used to it". Maybe we will, but newcomers will only see that prominently displayed message embedded in the opening one and implying that it is the correct answer to their problem, when we all know that for non trivial questions there is rarely a single correct answer.

I very much fear that this new feature will encourage newcomers to never learn to take full advantage of the forums.

~graffiti wrote:

 

Have we always been able to delete a response or is that new?

 

I wouldn't be surprised if it's always been there and I just haven't noticed it

I am sure that it is new, but unless every deleted message is replaced by a note stating who deleted it, when, and why, it can be more dangerous than beneficial.