A little over a year ago I wrote an article regarding retrieving a database object’s created and modified date/times:

Microsoft Access - Get Object Created Or Modified Date/Time

Getting the Creation Date/Time So have you ever tried to retrieve the Created Date/Time. Pretty easy right as there are a couple ways to attack this! You can simply query the MSysObjects table: Or perhaps use DAO Containers and Documents:   Getting the Last Modified Date/Time But what about the Modified Date/Time? So you would think that we could simply modify the above query of the MSysObjects table to: Or the DAO Containers and Documents to: But those are not reliable and don’t always work properly! (especially for Forms and Reports). Instead, they seem to return the Created Date/Time again.…

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In it, I detailed that the Last Modified properties was in fact unreliable and hence there was a bug.

So, at the end of the article, I included a link to a Feedback Portal suggestion I created about the issue in the hopes Microsoft would decided to fix this issue for us all.

We’re always told how Microsoft wants our feedback, that it is important, that it shapes what they do and how the focus their energies, …

This morning I received an e-mail from one of my website regulars who found the article and used the link to go upvote the issue.

However, instead of being able to upvote the suggestion, this is what people now get:

I can search high and low, but the suggestion, the votes by fellow users, it’s all just gone.  Gone into the great waste bin!

You have to wonder how many other suggestions have vanished overnight!

Is this Microsoft’s engagement to listening and improving their products!  Why have the site at all then?!

And then they wonder why users are using the portal.

It is just one more sad stain on Microsoft’s incapacity to make a simple site work!

The Feedback Portal site itself abounds with SPAM that never gets removed (even years after being flagged as SPAM), but genuine suggestions, suggestions to move the product forward are deleted.

It abundantly demonstrates the true worth Microsoft and the Microsoft Access Dev Team place on any of our contributions and feedback.

One has to wonder how many other suggestions have simply vanished into thin air?

I don’t think it is possible to do things worse than Microsoft currently does.