Adobe Community: Message List - Change Ask a Question to SEARCH HERE

Re: Change Ask a Question to SEARCH HERE

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 13:36:33 GMT

Patience. There's a lot in the pipeline.

Claudio González wrote:

Yes. Pity that it very rarely produces positive results...

Re: Change Ask a Question to SEARCH HERE

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 21:12:29 GMT

John Waller wrote:

Maybe there's a suggestions forum somewhere around here...
As far as I know, for requests for changes to the forums themselves, this is it....

Yes. Pity that it very rarely produces positive results...

Re: Change Ask a Question to SEARCH HERE

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 20:42:06 GMT

Maybe there's a suggestions forum somewhere around here...

As far as I know, for requests for changes to the forums themselves, this is it....

Re: Change Ask a Question to SEARCH HERE

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 20:37:20 GMT

John Waller wrote:

Given the overwhelming consensus of opinion here (which may go on with "+1" for months or years), how do we get Adobe to action the request so we can all move on with our lives?

I have heard something about sacrificing a goat at midnight

Maybe there's a suggestions forum somewhere around here...

Re: Change Ask a Question to SEARCH HERE

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 20:36:23 GMT

Was just asking out loud really, John.

There's no set formula or process for this stuff but I always thought this Forum Comments forum was for getting things improved on the layout and performance of the forum software.

I'll bang the drum elsewhere and see if anyone takes any notice.

Re: Change Ask a Question to SEARCH HERE

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 20:30:25 GMT

As a regular forum member, I have no idea... do MVP's have some "back channel" way to communicate to Adobe?

Re: Change Ask a Question to SEARCH HERE

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 20:19:13 GMT

Given the overwhelming consensus of opinion here (which may go on with "+1" for months or years), how do we get Adobe to action the request so we can all move on with our lives?

Re: Change Ask a Question to SEARCH HERE

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 17:45:03 GMT

Plus one here too. "Ask a Question" is misleading -- to me, that means "start a new thread," not "search this forum."

Re: Change Ask a Question to SEARCH HERE

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 10:44:10 GMT

+1 from me as well...

Re: Change Ask a Question to SEARCH HERE

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 18:13:10 GMT

John T.,

A big +1 from me. I would chose a title, such as "Search this forum for answers," or similar.

Hunt

Re: Change Ask a Question to SEARCH HERE

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 15:43:25 GMT

Indeed, Claudio.

Just an addition: If it said Don't Ask a Question Here, new users might start looking elsewhere at once and possibly eventually try out Start a Discussion under Actions.

Re: Change Ask a Question to SEARCH HERE

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 02:06:26 GMT

So I think it is a valuable tool, although very few people ever use it, in my opinion mainly because of its cryptic title.

No argument that it's useful. Just needs to be re-labelled but Adobe's not listening.

Re: Change Ask a Question to SEARCH HERE

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 01:17:59 GMT

Jacob, I have used the Ask a Question button every now and then, and to be fair I must confess thar I have been pleasantly impressed by the results. So I think it is a valuable tool, although very few people ever use it, in my opinion mainly because of its cryptic title.

I think that John's suggestions are as good as anyof the many others proposed years ago. I also know that the probability of our having success in a title change is very slim indeed. However, you and I shouldn't be discouraged by this "small" matter, should we?

Re: Change Ask a Question to SEARCH HERE

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 01:14:48 GMT

I think "Ask A Question" should be changed to "Use Web Search as Adobe Search is Pathetic".

Re: Change Ask a Question to SEARCH HERE

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 00:31:58 GMT

Quite, John.

But it may be the only possible change.

And it has a higher amusement value than the present wording.

As Claudio mentioned, no suggestion including the word search and/or excluding the words ask and question has led to anything.

Re: Change Ask a Question to SEARCH HERE

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 00:07:16 GMT

Well, considering the idea is to try and help new users, I don't think that would work

Re: Change Ask a Question to SEARCH HERE

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 23:54:01 GMT

How about Don't Ask a Question ?

Re: Change Ask a Question to SEARCH HERE

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 22:34:44 GMT

Actually, if "someone" with authority reads this, change to SEARCH FORUM HERE to be absolutely clear

Re: Change Ask a Question to SEARCH HERE

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 21:04:59 GMT

Not to mention the fact that with the increasing number of people posting by email and not coming to this site, the number of newcomers who have no idea where to post is increasing enormously. And many of them are not even aware that they are participating in a public forum... Pathetic.

Re: Change Ask a Question to SEARCH HERE

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 20:18:30 GMT

>nothing was changed

And new users STILL don't understand that Ask a Question is Adobe/Jive's funky way of saying SEARCH HERE

Re: Change Ask a Question to SEARCH HERE

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 18:48:53 GMT

I remember participating in a discussion about this when we first saw that title, and also about those Trending Questions , but as has happened with many other suggestions by users, nothing was changed.

Change Ask a Question to SEARCH HERE

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 17:48:42 GMT

Please change the Ask a Question title at the top/left of forum main pages to SEARCH HERE so people know it is the forum SEARCH link

New people do not know that Ask a Question really means SEARCH HERE http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1380031?tstart=0