And then, where have you disappeared to?

There used to be a very active Adobe forum participant. He used to annoy me and he used to delight me. He most frequently came up with noteworthy answers.
I used to be a regular reader of the Adobe forums too, not so much a participant. Things at Adobe forums changed…
Now with the advent of CS5, I am browsing a bit again to find out the pros and cons and the bugs etc.
Buko! Are you also one of the casualties? I am missing you.

De
nnis, since I started visiting these forums, it has been normal
for participant
s to address each other by their first ('Christian'
) names. Fortunately, this is something that hasn't changed.
Don't worry, I didn't take your message as personal. It's only that, if the information in your profile is correct (and a quick look at the titles of the threads in this forum will show that this is not always so), then you have no way of knowing what happened here, and therefore I tried to give some answers to your queries.
Basic questions that are answered in the Help menu of a program will always be asked -and ansered- in forums such as these. However, when answering that type of question becomes the almost exclusive task of participants in some of the product forums, something is wrong. Old timers have a right to miss the very valuable contributions of all those who have left or have been banned.
The difference between plain users and moderators + Adobe employees has always been there and cannot and should not be eliminated. Unfortunately, we have also lost some excellent moderators, and some very helpful employees -Nanguyen for example- have not been seen here for a long time.
The present status of these forums seems very far from a democracy, and I don't think that Adobe cares enough about the forums to be aware of this fact and its consequences.
And of course we are running the risk of being censored for going off topic...
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