Omnimaga
General Discussion => Other Discussions => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: Rhombicuboctahedron on October 31, 2012, 10:51:31 pm
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Just wondering, does anybody know who Mickaël N is?
http://answers.yahoo.com/activity?show=fyFpUXpNaa
Since few omnimaga use their real name, I thought maybe he might be one of you, though he always refers to tibank in his answers
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It's TI-BANK admin
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Oh, that's cool.
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Yup, totally looks like Mic the TI-Bank admin.
If you know some of the TI history, TI-Planet splitted off TI-Bank with all the admins but Mic leaving, due to some drama that happened over a year ago. Since then, TI-Bank is considered the bad side of the french community.
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Oh, that's cool.
Not really :P
He pointed all those people to go find their answers on TI-Bank but TI-Bank only gets its information from TI-Planet. The problem is that on TI-Planet you have real experts that can help you at any moment on the chat or get their updated information on the forum while on TI-Bank you only have what they said a long time ago (whuch got copied without giving any sources), without any kind of updates :(
If you know some of the TI history, TI-Planet splitted off TI-Bank with all the admins but Mic leaving, due to some drama that happened over a year ago. Since then, TI-Bank is considered the bad side of the french community.
I would not say that the whole site is the bad side of the french community, most people there might not know that they are on the wrong site. Only the admin is the bad side :P
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Well it depends which stuff. Critor, Adriweb and others who resignated from TI-BANK joined TI-BANK only in 2008. Anything prior that is really from Mic (TI-BANK existed for far longer than that). Afterward he went less and less active and the others, especially Critor, started posting a lot of news and discoveries until splitting their work into TI-Planet
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Yes, spamming Youtube with one video per GBA ROM... spamming Yahoo Answers with mainly links to informations he's copied on his website and sometimes not even a french/english word... nothing surprising.
He believes in quantity/spam... we believe in quality.
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Not really
He pointed all those people to go find their answers on TI-Bank but TI-Bank only gets its information from TI-Planet. The problem is that on TI-Planet you have real experts that can help you at any moment on the chat or get their updated information on the forum while on TI-Bank you only have what they said a long time ago (whuch got copied without giving any sources), without any kind of updates
Oh, okay.
Also, I kind of did find it annoying, but okay, when after I posted page long answers about gba or ndless, I would always see his same link to tibank. Although is was equally annoying to see Texas Instrument’s “we understand that you” help answers
And, if it makes you feel better, I only ever told people to find downloads on tiplanet
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He's too incompetent and too bad-behaved to try and attract people the normal way, so in order to try (and miserably fail ^^) to find support, he has to resort to spamming, slandering and whatnot.
Nothing else to expect from him, and he doesn't even deserve that much attention: let's move along :)
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He also "steals" the project from others without permission and puts them in TI-BANK. (How do I know that? all the zcontest thingys are in there.)
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He also "steals" the project from others without permission and puts them in TI-BANK. (How do I know that? all the zcontest thingys are in there.)
Seems like I escaped from that, I can't find Pokemon Topaze there :D
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He also "steals" the project from others without permission and puts them in TI-BANK. (How do I know that? all the zcontest thingys are in there.)
Erm, that isn't stealing, as he doesn't change the author name. On top of that it's a very common practice on French websites for admins to add other people's games in their own file archives without the author's permission. Even TI-Planet (or its team) does it. That's a different mentality in France for file archivers sometimes in order to boost their traffic or have their archives be as complete as possible but at the same time boost the author's popularity outside the English world.
In some cases, however, such as TI-OSes, the websites will just link to the original file rather than provide a full copy, and the author can request them to do so with their files too (particularly if it's a constantly updated project and the original link always remains the same) or even remove any mention of the file althogether (although then I don't see the point since it removes you a lot of publicity, especially on TI-Planet where there are 1800 users online at once in June)
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Ah. Hence I quoted "steals" just in case.
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Yeah steal would be more like if for example Omni staff took your games and uploaded them in the archives, but without even showing you in the author field (or if unavailable, in the uploader field).
The only time I can tolerate an admin not taking down someone files upon request is if the takedown request is done in direct response to forum moderator temp-ban/warning or in retaliation against an admin getting mad at you for trolling the shit out of his site, because either the person will change his mind after cooling down or he is just crybabying for not being allowed to do everything he wants (which happened several times on the old board). :P
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This was so weird.
I saw that one of my answers was not the best answer, so I checked it and all four of them were people or things I've heard of before.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ai6.2.NmYT3NqAnB4NYFxefsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20130122200433AA4kQtC
Idk, I was just surprised to see kerm there. Also I thought it interesting that we all link to different websites (well, I forgot to that time)
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Maybe to get new members on their respective sites :P (maybe if some Omni members visit Yahoo Answers they could link to Omni tutorials as well sometimes when someone need specific help :P)
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And now ti-bank.fr has now sort of merged (more like rebranded) into calc-bank.com. Looks like Mic the Admin is trying to cater for all calc models now.
Yup, totally looks like Mic the TI-Bank admin.
If you know some of the TI history, TI-Planet splitted off TI-Bank with all the admins but Mic leaving, due to some drama that happened over a year ago. Since then, TI-Bank is considered the bad side of the french community.
I always wondered what happened there.
This was so weird.
I saw that one of my answers was not the best answer, so I checked it and all four of them were people or things I've heard of before.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ai6.2.NmYT3NqAnB4NYFxefsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20130122200433AA4kQtC
Idk, I was just surprised to see kerm there. Also I thought it interesting that we all link to different websites (well, I forgot to that time)
Technically the Best Answer didn't actually "answer" the question. It was very pro-TI-84.
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YEah true, Kerm is very anti Nspire CX so that probably explains it :P
As for Calc-Bank that's an old story but yeah TI-BANK became Calc-Bank because it expanded to HP and its sister site Casio-Bank merged with it.
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I've done a lot of programming on my old TI-84 and I was wondering if the NSpire supported this. I never did games so much as programs to run formulas or menus for notes. Will the NSpire support this?
How come Kerms answer is chosen best in this case, ze already has a TI84 and asks if the nspire can do formula/menu stuff. I still find Rhombis answer the best :P
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There are two possible scenarios:
1) His friends on Cemetech uprated his post
OR
2) The TI-Nspire reputation is ruined, with no hope to recover (especially considering at least 3 TI stunts made Slashdot front page)
:P
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So yeah, you have Kerm who has a bias against the Nspire, TI themselves who gives a rather generic answer and Mic who's pretty much an attention whore. I think Rhombi wins this match.
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In his defense, I want to point out that Mic is quiet since several months.
He does not insult people no more, he always quotes the sources of his news and the authors of programs are now quoted without exceptions.
Anyway, he complies with requests when someone asks.
Now he tries to re-build a calc-website alone against everybody (okay, it's his fault).
So, please, stop demonize him like that.
TI-Bank is considered the bad side of the french community.
As information, ti bank is now "calc-bank.com" and centralize solutions about all calcs Casio/TI/HP, the time of the angry-Mic-will-take-revenge-and-kill-everybody is over.
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I guess it's fine then. Good luck to him ^_^
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Old-timers know that in order to try and buy some support, the other most hated person in the community stated he wanted to widen his interests to calculators from other manufacturers. Obviously, he utterly failed, due to the terrible reputation he created himself, despite his good programming abilities and his limited attention whoring.
Old-timers also know that sites trying to gather all kinds of enthusiasts (TI, Casio, HP and others) haven't been a huge, long-lasting success in the community.
the time of the angry-XXX-will-take-revenge-and-kill-everybody is over.
He bursted out so many times in slander, threats and hatred, over a year and a half, that for people to start believing him, he'll have to behave properly, and produce useful contents, for years ^^
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Yes, just wait. It's around 2 months... 10 months remaining, so.
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Yeah I noticed he's been quieter since the last months or so. I think he had threats of legal action and stuff last year so he kinda had no choice, but he probably noticed that constantly attacking another site (directly or indirectly, without necessarily mentionning it) instead of spending more time putting good content on the site wasn't a good way to keep or attract new members and visitors. And even if on a site it's the non-staff members who attack another site repeatedly, this can still affect things too if little is done. I don't think TI-BANK was the only place that discovered that over the last few years, since in 2011, another site had 2-3 non-staff members constantly attacking Omnimaga while admins weren't too active and when it caused drama, it generally resulted in a temporary loss of activity (at one point, under 30 posts a day) from some Omnimaga regulars who went on their site.
Another thing that can affect activity is the staff/members attitude towards newbies on sites that offers help on calc usage and programming. Making fun of a newbie who asks a question already answered elsewhere instead of politely pointing him out in the good direction to find his answer is certainly not gonna convince other people to come ask for help.
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In his defense, I want to point out that Mic is quiet since several months.
He does not insult people no more, he always quotes the sources of his news and the authors of programs are now quoted without exceptions.
Anyway, he complies with requests when someone asks.
Now he tries to re-build a calc-website alone against everybody (okay, it's his fault).
So, please, stop demonize him like that.
TI-Bank is considered the bad side of the french community.
As information, ti bank is now "calc-bank.com" and centralize solutions about all calcs Casio/TI/HP, the time of the angry-Mic-will-take-revenge-and-kill-everybody is over.
Maybe, but he is still attention whoring. I’ve answered a lot of calculator questions on Yahoo, and I’ve seen his answers quite often. They all just link to something at ti bank.
Which is unhelpful, because it is in French, and quite often it is not even correct, like links to things for the cx when the user asked about the grayscale, and other things.
I sometimes link to omnimaga or tiplanet, but only for downloads and extra information or help.
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Well in any case, if you feel an answer on Yahoo is just blatant advertising/spam/self-promotion with no relevant help at all, you can always flag it as spam or mark it down.
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In his defense, I want to point out that Mic is quiet since several months.
He does not insult people no more, he always quotes the sources of his news and the authors of programs are now quoted without exceptions.
Anyway, he complies with requests when someone asks.
Now he tries to re-build a calc-website alone against everybody (okay, it's his fault).
So, please, stop demonize him like that.
TI-Bank is considered the bad side of the french community.
As information, ti bank is now "calc-bank.com" and centralize solutions about all calcs Casio/TI/HP, the time of the angry-Mic-will-take-revenge-and-kill-everybody is over.
Why is this post downrated? There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with it.
This was so weird.
I saw that one of my answers was not the best answer, so I checked it and all four of them were people or things I've heard of before.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ai6.2.NmYT3NqAnB4NYFxefsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20130122200433AA4kQtC
Idk, I was just surprised to see kerm there. Also I thought it interesting that we all link to different websites (well, I forgot to that time)
Rhom's answer was definitely the most detailed and relevant to the Nspire. Kerm's answer might have been better if he explained how the Nspire's programming capabilities are subpar to the TI-84 Plus C. Else it really feels more like advertising than an explanation. :P
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Well in any case, if you feel an answer on Yahoo is just blatant advertising/spam/self-promotion with no relevant help at all, you can always flag it as spam or mark it down.
Well, I have, several times before. I only do that when he has only the link and no “Yes you can with …”
But it never did anything anyway. I once included in an answer to not go to ti-bank because the links are unhelpful.
Rhom's answer was definitely the most detailed and relevant to the Nspire. Kerm's answer might have been better if he explained how the Nspire's programming capabilities are subpar to the TI-84 Plus C. Else it really feels more like advertising than an explanation. :P
Lol, if you think that is detailed, some of my other answers go on and on. I can’t remember which ones, but I found this answer (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AjMFxxiFFi_t1SRKbVE2.G_ty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20121011184136AAt9STl)
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Given that 90% of Yahoo answers are pure garbage (mostly trolling), they must have a lot of work on their plate so it would probably take a lot of flagging until an user is really taken care of :P. It doesn't hurt to rate down bad answers though.
In his defense, I want to point out that Mic is quiet since several months.
He does not insult people no more, he always quotes the sources of his news and the authors of programs are now quoted without exceptions.
Anyway, he complies with requests when someone asks.
Now he tries to re-build a calc-website alone against everybody (okay, it's his fault).
So, please, stop demonize him like that.
TI-Bank is considered the bad side of the french community.
As information, ti bank is now "calc-bank.com" and centralize solutions about all calcs Casio/TI/HP, the time of the angry-Mic-will-take-revenge-and-kill-everybody is over.
Why is this post downrated? There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with it.
I think it might be due to wording. At first I thought he was badmouthing everyone instead of the few who still were negative about Mic. It wasn't me who downvoted, though. :P
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As information, ti bank is now "calc-bank.com" and centralize solutions about all calcs Casio/TI/HP, the time of the angry-Mic-will-take-revenge-and-kill-everybody is over.
Really? I might check out the casio section but he has a lot of competition and not a large audience if he tries to take that category.
UCF only just recently, and only with a lot of dedicated work by 2072, forty-two, micropro and I to build it into a growing community. However, our member base is definitely growing and we have gone from 1 post a week to 3-5 a day, so maybe the casio community is growing on a whole as well, dunno.
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Well, as you could notice a few years ago back when the Casio section was Casio-Bank standalone site, the forums had like 6 posts a month max and very little files were added. There is already the established Planète-Casio site and the FX-9860G community is very small in English compared to the PRIZM so Omni always had an hard time keeping Casio coders around too.
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Yeah, him trying to compete with the established sites who gather more people of higher knowledge level - and while at it, trying to compete with all of them at once, by trying to handle all of TI, Casio and HP - is attention whoring, and has no chance of succeeding.
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That is logic, his forum is empty and he doesn't have active members.
I think that's why he posts ads on yahoo.
I did not say he was very competent, I said he is no longer "bad".
The day when a community would live at calc-bank, he and his site would be useful. Now they are not because of Planete-casio/TI-Planet wich are doing excellent work, but it may change in the future, when we will have new calc models, etc...
He has the will, he will not abandon, if people like us continue to disclaim him, he will make more ads/troll on youtube, yahoo, etc...
As information again, calc-bank has an "english" mode, like TI-Planet, all the news/articles/archives have a translation, click on the US flag on the top-right.
Why is this post downrated? There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with it.
No matter, I was expecting while writing it...
Thanks for having rebalanced.
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I said he is no longer "bad".
This remains to be proved, given that, as you know, in the past, bursts of hatred followed statements about fixing his behaviour.
We'll see in 2015... assuming (and that's a huge assumption ^^) that no outbreak of hatred occurs until then ;)
Now they are not because of Planete-casio/TI-Planet wich are doing excellent work, but it may change in the future, when we will have new calc models, etc...
That's wishful thinking from him, but fortunately for the community as a whole, other sites falling out of favor has little chance of happening :)
He has the will, he will not abandon
Wishful thinking again, as you know by now ;)
if people like us continue to disclaim him, he will make more ads/troll on youtube, yahoo, etc...
More spamming would only dig even deeper the grave of the reputation of the spammed site and of the poster ;)
Common sense rightfully holds that reputable, active and knowledgeable sites (like Omnimaga, Cemetech and TI-Planet) hardly ever spam out links in order to perform attention whoring.
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Well, as you could notice a few years ago back when the Casio section was Casio-Bank standalone site, the forums had like 6 posts a month max and very little files were added. There is already the established Planète-Casio site and the FX-9860G community is very small in English compared to the PRIZM so Omni always had an hard time keeping Casio coders around too.
Well, we seem to be getting lot of b&w coders (Classpad, fx) on UCF lately...
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That's wishful thinking from him,
All of this is from me and only me, I'm not paid to say that,
He has the will, he will not abandon
Wishful thinking again, as you know by now
No, it's been more than two years that he clings to start his site. He has only it in his life (yes, it's sad), trust me, he won't abandon.
I perfectly know that his chances to success with calc-bank are small, but we must let him try.
Say everywhere that he is the "bad side of the french community" won't help.