I don't think you can separate those out. I can tell you with 99% certainly it isn't monitored for ideas of product improvement. Obviously, it is affiliated with AC, but the link between the Help menu and the board is where it stops.
It is certainly not an official authorized source of information as I could suggest to someone to delete SQL Server and all of its databases, and that user couldn't go back to AC with that.
If you find a pot of gold, you don't worry what it's for or how it got there. You are just happy you found the pot of gold. Jon pays for and set up the user board but it is maintained by the users for the users. As such it is an incredible resource but that is all and was not intended to be an organized group of forums complete with a Table of Contents and Index.
