"the ACP program selects only the best people from the developer community"

Nonsense. "Some of" would be fair. But the point is that posts by "community professionals" are being given undue prominence by this shambolic forum upgrade. Hey ho.

Don't bother - you clearly can't.

Why not do like in MS Answers Groups put yor title of authority beside the Picture ad name above

Here is example of mine.

Differrent Picture of me. Actually newer. Last I tried I could not edit any thing in Profile kept getting error message.

Tried again and have upload the Tartan Image. As son as it's approved in abut 4 days I'll use it as my avatar image.

As far as I know the Jones Family I came from originated in England. However my Mother's side of the Family both the Fulcher's and the Harris' came  from Scottland. 

That's a relief! The Shirt is from a  Company called Haband and the had several different color combo for this pattern. Picture was taken with PhotoBooth. My MacBook Pro has built in iSight camera and Microphone.

Let's get on to serious stuff or else we will be yanked from the forum.  Remember they don't tolarate friendly back and forth.

Phillip Jones wrote:

 

Remember they don't tolarate friendly back and forth.

It's a nice thing to see pleasant interactions.  Up to now it was only a theory that such things could exist in this universe.

But you're right, it's quite out of character on the Adobe forums, where smart, creative people collide all the time.  So just in case, I suggest ending all pleasant posts with the phrase "You idiots!"

You idiots! 

-Noel

Claudio González wrote:

 

Pierre, my proposition -apparently shared by not a few- is to  completely eliminate the different backgrounds in messages. There are, or should not be, castes in the forums. If there are legitimate differences -employee, participat, moderator, even perhaps community professional- it is enough to identify them poperly in the zone near their avatars, as it used to be. Not to mention the fact that this proliferation of colors is distracting at best.

Another way to put it. We all put our pants on exactly the same way, one leg at a time. when it comes to the forums we are all equals. Sure some of us have more knowledge and there should be some way of letting us know under/over or around your Avatar is sufficient.

just ditch the Grey (gray) the world dull and drab enough.  It's a downer.

You know that the text is not actually black either, right?

Maybe the dark gray text on light gray background is a conspiracy by all the young web designers to drive us old folks (who know what quality looks like but prefer it to be easier to see), away from the computer, in order to make their lives easier.

-Noel

Phillip Jones wrote:

 

…just ditch the Grey (gray) the world dull and drab enough.  It's a downer.

PJ, that is easily achieved with a single Firefox Add-on: it's called "No Color".  You can toggle it on and off with a single click, and it doesn't slow you down all.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/no-color/?src=search

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.