Nearly 2000 members - Omnimaga in March 2012

[Happybobjr]

I thought trolls spawned from 4 chan.  JK.  but kinda seriously...

My first 10 posts on Omnimaga were so bad that I should have been banned from every calc site on earth.  Luckily DJ forgave me... and look where I am now

[gibaoran]

Speaking as a member who has barely any posts, I think that we mainly join just for a single question about programming, and otherwise just lurk as yeongJIN_COOL said. I personally really don't HAVE much to contribute yet, and mainly soak up little programing tips and tidbits fro surviving math class.

[thepenguin77]

I have an idea. Maybe they like the site and were lurkers for a while. But they couldn't read the randomness related sections. So then they made an account so that they could.

I mean, TI Calculator Game Walkthroughs, Secrets & Glitches sounds interesting enough to sign up for.

[Jonius7]

I knew it wasn't quite worded correctly, but good on you qwerty.55 for clearing it up. and it is interesting for 350 non-posting members.

[Juju]

I thought trolls spawned from 4 chan.  JK.  but kinda seriously...

My first 10 posts on Omnimaga were so bad that I should have been banned from every calc site on earth.  Luckily DJ forgave me... and look where I am now

I was something like that too when I first joined... Now I'm in the Anti-Riot Squad

[Scipi]

Perhaps some of those 0-1 posters really haven'y checked out the site yet. I mean, once I found this site I joined because, you know, I like calcs and I am pretty good at BASIC. So I said, what the heck. Well I didn't really post a thing until several months later when I sort've "refound" the site, been pretty active (mostly in randomness) ever since.

[DJ Omnimaga]

I totally disagree with the first post. The large amount of members with low post count has nothing to do with the amount of trolls.

1) Our troll problem started about 1 month ago and originated from IRC.
2) A lot of people join calc sites to ask for help. These people will generally make 1-2 posts then go away. There's nothing wrong with that, our help sections are here for them.
3) A lot of people join calc sites, but they cannot find anything to contribute in the end, and eventually they lose interest, so these ppl got 0 posts, sometimes 1 in the intro section. It's normal.
4) Like cfxm and uberspire, some people are not big posters. This goes back to point 3, except they're interested in calc stuff. Not everyone is gonna post almost everywhere. Some people are busier too.
5) Some people are more IRC guys than forum guys, like Genolo or brooom. Unfortunately, this seems to be the group at risk lately.

If you go check UTI, Cemetech, TI-Freakware, MaxCoderz, etc, notice how every forum only have like half of their members above 0 posts. This is normal. Plus there could be bots that made it through filters years ago but never posted.

I don't think we should automatically label low posters as members at risk. Omni just went through bad luck and attracted a bunch of troublesome users at once and it will probably get through it fine. However right now to avoid problems the IRC channel had to be closed, since it attracted trolls.

[Madskillz]

jhgenius01 it is a common problem around forums. Actually RevSoft had about 600 members and once I cleaned out all the 0-1 posters, we dropped down to around 300.

A good majority of those 0 posters are most likely bots without the ability to post. No matter how advanced your bot detection system is, unless it is by invite only you arent going to stop bots from registering.

[DJ Omnimaga]

By the way, on several calc forums I got 0 posts. Espace-TI is an example. I just never had time to post there. It doesn't mean I'm a troll and that the forum is threatened by trolls.

[Jonius7]

Sorry about that. It's just that there's  been a spike in member numbers since last year.

[ruler501]

I had 1-0 posts for a few months when I first registered here. I had not had much to contribute and didn't look around much. I just joined to be able to help/look at Ndless. When i looked around the site I found there were many other things and started becoming a more active member. I think the Math section was what really started me on being an active member

[DJ Omnimaga]

Yeah the math area seems to have kept a lot of people even more active. I would never have put one when this board started, since I wanted the focus to be mostly on calc games, but the board grew bigger so it cannot have an impact on the entire board theme and it can still increase activity. I think the fact that most calc programmers like maths kinda helped, though. (after all, when programming we do maths )

[Jonius7]

yeah maths is part of the programming. but a wide range of forums, including general forums means omnimaga isn't just restricted to calc games. you can talk in omnimaga about lots of things.

[DJ Omnimaga]

True, some other calc boards got plenty of off topic talk, like hardware and electronics or web dev. Some calc forums are exclusively dedicated to the site projects.

[Freyaday]

The following sentences are to be in no way construed as having anything to do with one another:
I think we were all trolls when we initially joined, perhaps simply because we didn't know any better.
I just noticed that Omnimaga has no Wikipedia page.