"I see you have responded to over 88k posts here"
I don't even know what you are looking at, but perhaps this is what it means: I believe you might be seeing some sort of Forum(s) statistic, and since I have been participating with Intuit since 2007, so that number might be explained by over 10 years and Lots of other software and Forum platforms, with the data carried over.
"I am not here to steal clients from what you clearly see as YOUR own fish pond."
I don't know what you think this is. All of the iterations are Peer User forums connected from internal to the Programs, the past 5 years or so, by opening Help from Within the QB desktop programs. Believe me, you are not Stealing any clients from me. I have been turning them away for years, as I have been plenty busy.
You seem to have some insight to share into why I am here, but you never asked Me. I am here as a peer user. I learn from all of the Intuit forums where I participate, as I am an end user and have clients with "developing" issues that show on the forums when others start to see issues. I learned from all of my students, as well. Because No One can know everything about everything, and I am the first to admit we all learn from those willing to be Helpful.
I also learned Programming. When I offer methods for QB, it is because I know how the change to a Relational Database in 2007 affected these tasks and the reporting. Also, since I get Paid to fix things, I am pretty familiar with how people Break them. And teaching 12 or more class sessions every year for 9 years means I got to see how students Make their errors, real time. This is theory.
Using JE for anything in this topic is a perfect example. A topic gets started by someone having difficulty with the way a JE isn't working for reporting or tracking purposes. Everyone who posts to that topic about How to make a JE work, is overlooking the one fact: It already isn't working for that person.
I am as saddened as anyone that this topic got off track and out of control. It never had to be this way, which I observed days ago.
