The avatars are there, they are not "missing", I simply hid them through one of my AdBlockPlus rules.  They can be restored in less than five seconds.

The missing message numbers and the missing "in response to" information, unfortunately, I can't do anything about that. 

Adobe's Community Professional "members" are probably fairly proficient in how a particular application operates. In a forum that is prone to many transient posters, people would tend to react to a "badge" and to the frequency of posts by the person answering them. Does a Community Pro label and a counter that says "10,000 posts since 1864" mean anything? In reality, no. But this is not reality. Not that I want a label, but take me for example. I wrote the first Dreamweaver Magic book. I was one of the original Dreamweaver evangelists (precursor to ACP and by invitation only - you could not "apply") and I made over 10,000 posts on the old Macromedia Dreamweaver newsgroup - which are not counted as forum posts. Do I care about any of this? Of course not. If I did, I would mention it in every post I make. Does it amuse me? Sadly, it does.  There is a lot of misinformation on technical issues, such as CSS for instance. There are still "professionals" sending budding web designers off to places like w3schools.com where they are as likely to get erroneous information as anything else. There are still people whose main goal in participating is not necessarily the general good or the joy of doing a good deed. From my observations, the odds on getting a good answer are fair. The odds on getting an expert answer are rare. But most people wouldn't know the difference if it hit them on the chin . Anyway, there's no sense in getting upset about things that will not be changed.

Your point is spot on. As for the full history of Dreamweaver, its contributors, and its benefactors, Google Groups maintains a record of historic posts on the original Dreamweaver forum.

I thought all Application Icons were copyrighted. IF so the person should be contacted by adobe and forced to change the Avatar.  Though I have some experience, with Acrobat or DreamWeaver, I wouldn't pass myself with such Avatars as an expert.