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Title: DJ Omnimaga resigns from Omnimaga manager
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 21, 2010, 07:52:08 pm
Until further notice (most likely for the entire holiday vacations) I will now remain as regular Omnimaga forum member, active posting, but I am retiring from my administrator position. This means I will not be answering forum-related requests for the entire time.

Since I quit calculator programming 4 months ago, I do not have anymore calculator projects, and thus, I cannot remain in the programming team either. I also do not have any op privilege on Netbot45 anymore. So for now, I will be a normal forum member instead of staff or manager. I will still be as active posting as I am now, though.

The reason why I am temporary resigning is due to the increasing amount of stress that comes with a forum manager position since the past two and half a month, ranging from moderation to large amounts of requests. I like to participate in forum discussions, but the extreme amount of stress the admin position came with in the past months has made me lose motivation over time. Before, I was impatient to come back from work and check forum active topics and participate. Now I have to force myself to post, most of the time. When I feel like posting, I usually end up spending the entire time into moderation, instead. Sometimes, it also seems from the people involved that I'm not even doing a good job at running the site. In other words, this is why I need some time off from my admin position, and would prefer to simply remain a regular active member. I had in mind to do this for over a month already. Today the time has come.

For site requests and issues, you will now have to ask Hot_Dog, Eeems, Builderboy or Ztrumpet, depending of their activity, as the task is now distributed among them.
Title: Re: DJ Omnimaga resigns from Omnimaga manager
Post by: Munchor on December 21, 2010, 07:58:33 pm
The reasons you give to doing so are fair and I totally understand them. You have good arguments to proof your point.

However, I can't conceive seeing you as normal member for some reason, you are able to handle a huge community and believe me, the best ti calculators community in the web. You are one of the very few who can do it, so you are the best admnistrator we could have since you are also the founder.

Sorry DJ, I would like to see you turning back your decision :)
Title: Re: DJ Omnimaga resigns from Omnimaga manager
Post by: c.sprinkle on December 21, 2010, 08:00:43 pm
Poor DJ. I'm really sorry about all the stress. :(
Title: Re: DJ Omnimaga resigns from Omnimaga manager
Post by: Hot_Dog on December 21, 2010, 08:01:42 pm
As always, good luck DJ.  You have our best wishes, and we will be glad when you feel you are able to take on an administrative position again.
Title: Re: DJ Omnimaga resigns from Omnimaga manager
Post by: squidgetx on December 21, 2010, 08:07:51 pm
I can definitely see where you're coming from, and I hope you enjoy your break. It's definitely a well deserved one.

Keep in mind everyone that he's not leaving us forever :P
Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on December 21, 2010, 07:52:08 pm
active posting,
and that he won't even not be as admin for that long:
Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on December 21, 2010, 07:52:08 pm
(most likely for the entire holiday vacations)
(not that I'm holding it to you to un-retire as soon as holidays are over :P)

Also to DJ, remember that we have 4 other admins and 10 staff that can help you out on the moderating side; we'll always (at least, most of the time XD) be here to support you :)
Title: Re: DJ Omnimaga resigns from Omnimaga manager
Post by: Deep Toaster on December 21, 2010, 08:12:38 pm
Quote from: squidgetx on December 21, 2010, 08:07:51 pm
I can definitely see where you're coming from, and I hope you enjoy your break. It's definitely a well deserved one.

^

We'd've collapsed long before without you XD
Title: Re: DJ Omnimaga resigns from Omnimaga manager
Post by: jnesselr on December 21, 2010, 08:14:49 pm
If I could work on TAO (*couch* Eeems *cough* oasis *cough*) then I could become a COT.

Anyway, Dj, enjoy your vacation!
Title: Re: DJ Omnimaga resigns from Omnimaga manager
Post by: FinaleTI on December 21, 2010, 08:45:19 pm
Enjoy your vacation DJ! It's well deserved.
Glad to know you'll still be around, though.
Title: Re: DJ Omnimaga resigns from Omnimaga manager
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 21, 2010, 08:51:07 pm
Quote from: graphmastur on December 21, 2010, 08:14:49 pm
If I could work on TAO (*couch* Eeems *cough* oasis *cough*) then I could become a COT.

Anyway, Dj, enjoy your vacation!
What about Spasm/Brass/ZDS? D:

Anyway thanks guys.
Title: Re: DJ Omnimaga resigns from Omnimaga manager
Post by: Juju on December 21, 2010, 11:37:05 pm
I think you really deserve this pause from the manager position, this will be good for you. Happy Christmas and have fun!
Title: Re: DJ Omnimaga resigns from Omnimaga manager
Post by: ztrumpet on December 22, 2010, 01:36:14 am
Have a nice break, and good luck keeping the stress down. :)
Title: Re: DJ Omnimaga resigns from Omnimaga manager
Post by: Builderboy on December 22, 2010, 01:57:14 am
Well deserved and well earned DJ, have a good and stress free vacation :)
Title: Re: DJ Omnimaga resigns from Omnimaga manager
Post by: Munchor on December 22, 2010, 06:06:06 am
I can indeed imagine the stress of running this thing. Also because it seems that I provoke lots of stress around here :s. So, it's nice to see you're gonna relax for a time :D
Title: Re: DJ Omnimaga resigns from Omnimaga manager
Post by: jnesselr on December 22, 2010, 10:08:00 am
Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on December 21, 2010, 08:51:07 pm
Quote from: graphmastur on December 21, 2010, 08:14:49 pm
If I could work on TAO (*couch* Eeems *cough* oasis *cough*) then I could become a COT.

Anyway, Dj, enjoy your vacation!
What about Spasm/Brass/ZDS? D:

Anyway thanks guys.
Yeah, I'm starting with ZDS right now, while trying to do usb stuff. I need to define many enemies, so I need to figure out the story-line exactly. (I have a good idea on how to do that)
Title: Re: DJ Omnimaga resigns from Omnimaga manager
Post by: yunhua98 on December 22, 2010, 10:32:43 am
This is better than before when it was because people were disrespectful to DJ.  Somehow, I don't think this is not going to change much.  DJ will still post, and we will still all respect him, manager or not.  ;)
Title: Re: DJ Omnimaga resigns from Omnimaga manager
Post by: Ashbad on December 22, 2010, 10:51:55 am
Viva la DJ Omnimaga!  I would probably quit omnimaga,org if you did too, but if you at least stay, I will too.  You're a great guy, though I'm sure moderation really cut into your personal life.  I wish you the best of luck in real life and as staying active on omnimaga.  Hopefully you will convince yourself to get back into calc programming, without the stresses of being an admin. 

As a second thought, DJ has always been a strong leader of omnimaga.  Let's hope we can still stay strong.  Even if things get choatic during this transition time, I will get pissed if someone blames it on DJ.  He put so much time into omni and has gone through so much stress I am suprised he didn't do this a long time ago; he deserves his leave as admin, he put his sweat and blood into letting us have this community -- and is now the largest around today.

Happy holidays, DJ; and I hope the holdiays remove some stress from your back, dude ;)
Title: Re: DJ Omnimaga resigns from Omnimaga manager
Post by: NeoCrisis on December 22, 2010, 11:02:57 am
That's sad :'( anyway, it's true that managing a forum as big as Omnimaga is very difficult :/ Good stressless vacation though ;)
Title: Re: DJ Omnimaga resigns from Omnimaga manager
Post by: Happybobjr on December 22, 2010, 11:28:42 am
noticing that my respect level has been going down, i hope i wasn't causing more stress on you.
Title: Re: DJ Omnimaga resigns from Omnimaga manager
Post by: Eeems on December 22, 2010, 01:44:04 pm
Graphmastur: Use windows for now :p
DJ: Its too bad that the stress got this bad, I wish I had done more to alleviate it. Hopefully we can handle the forum without you in an administrator position. Hope the vacation helps :)
Everyone: this is just a reminder, there is a report button, don't just use it for spam, if you see someone who is being rude, or anything against the rules, let us know. I know I don't read all the posts on the forum, so it will be very helpful :)
Title: Re: DJ Omnimaga resigns from Omnimaga manager
Post by: Michael_Lee on December 22, 2010, 01:55:04 pm
Aw, I'm sorry that you got stressed out, DJ.
I think you definitely deserve a vacation.
Title: Re: DJ Omnimaga resigns from Omnimaga manager
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 22, 2010, 02:02:56 pm
Quote from: Eeems on December 22, 2010, 01:44:04 pm
Graphmastur: Use windows for now :p
DJ: Its too bad that the stress got this bad, I wish I had done more to alleviate it. Hopefully we can handle the forum without you in an administrator position. Hope the vacation helps :)
Everyone: this is just a reminder, there is a report button, don't just use it for spam, if you see someone who is being rude, or anything against the rules, let us know. I know I don't read all the posts on the forum, so it will be very helpful :)
Yeah I notice it has only be used 3 times since this forum opened actually. Once it was someone advertising his help topic and the other two times it was a spambot. This button, as well as the one in PMs, should probably be used, I think, because I am pretty sure I could have missed posts myself too, especially in October and the first half of November, when we had like 400 posts a day. If some people noticed, some of my warnings were sent 2-3 days late.
Quote from: Ashbad on December 22, 2010, 10:51:55 am
Viva la DJ Omnimaga!  I would probably quit omnimaga,org if you did too, but if you at least stay, I will too.
Well I hope you don't leave completely if I ever leave. It would suck because IMHO there are a lot of other nice people around and it would sound like you only visited because I was around ???. That said, I don,t plan to leave anytime soon, though. There could be breaks, especially with holidays, but I don't think a permanent leave could happen unless things went south IRL.
Title: Re: DJ Omnimaga resigns from Omnimaga manager
Post by: jnesselr on December 22, 2010, 02:39:06 pm
Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on December 22, 2010, 02:02:56 pm
Quote from: Eeems on December 22, 2010, 01:44:04 pm
Graphmastur: Use windows for now :p
DJ: Its too bad that the stress got this bad, I wish I had done more to alleviate it. Hopefully we can handle the forum without you in an administrator position. Hope the vacation helps :)
Everyone: this is just a reminder, there is a report button, don't just use it for spam, if you see someone who is being rude, or anything against the rules, let us know. I know I don't read all the posts on the forum, so it will be very helpful :)
Yeah I notice it has only be used 3 times since this forum opened actually. Once it was someone advertising his help topic and the other two times it was a spambot. This button, as well as the one in PMs, should probably be used, I think, because I am pretty sure I could have missed posts myself too, especially in October and the first half of November, when we had like 400 posts a day. If some people noticed, some of my warnings were sent 2-3 days late.

Yeah, actually, does that warning send a message or notification to the user who posted it in the first place? So we see that someone didn't like that. I guess it's kinda like seeing what posts we get rated down for.

@Eeems: I am for now. ;-)
Title: Re: DJ Omnimaga resigns from Omnimaga manager
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 22, 2010, 02:42:19 pm
All admins get notified when a report is sent. I don't know if the person receives a notification, though.
Title: Re: DJ Omnimaga resigns from Omnimaga manager
Post by: Geekboy1011 on December 22, 2010, 05:41:27 pm
enjoy the break mate and you definitaly deserve it i hope i will get ungrounded soon so i can start to be active again
Title: Re: DJ Omnimaga resigns from Omnimaga manager
Post by: Scipi on December 22, 2010, 08:15:53 pm
Enjoy the break. You are the best admin and founder I have ever seen on any site. And I've only been here a few months! O.O You deserve it. I hope the break relieves your stress. I'd hate to see you leave.
Title: Re: DJ Omnimaga resigns from Omnimaga manager
Post by: calcdude84se on December 22, 2010, 10:07:16 pm
Well, not much more to say than "good luck! :D"
Best of luck in managing your stress and everything :)
Eeems: I'll keep the "Report to moderator" link in mind.
Edit: 1500th post! That took a while... * calcdude hopes he can get his activity back up.
Title: Re: DJ Omnimaga resigns from Omnimaga manager
Post by: Munchor on December 23, 2010, 04:47:34 pm
Quote from: calcdude84se on December 22, 2010, 10:07:16 pm
Well, not much more to say than "good luck! :D"
Best of luck in managing your stress and everything :)
Eeems: I'll keep the "Report to moderator" link in mind.
Edit: 1500th post! That took a while... * calcdude hopes he can get his activity back up.

I noticed you've been coming here more often :) Great!
Title: Re: DJ Omnimaga resigns from Omnimaga manager
Post by: jnesselr on December 23, 2010, 10:51:04 pm
I hope I can get to 1000! I never posted this much in a forum before, actually.
Title: Re: DJ Omnimaga resigns from Omnimaga manager
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 25, 2010, 09:56:41 pm
Yeah I was kinda worried you would kinda vanish because last Winter you had like 3 posts on UTI and TIBD per month combined. Hopefully most of the current users remains active for a while.

I shall catch up on posts within the next few weeks, hopefully.
Title: Re: DJ Omnimaga resigns from Omnimaga manager
Post by: jnesselr on December 25, 2010, 09:57:43 pm
Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on December 25, 2010, 09:56:41 pm
Yeah I was kinda worried you would kinda vanish because last Winter you had like 3 posts on UTI and TIBD per month combined. Hopefully most of the current users remains active for a while.

I shall catch up on posts within the next few weeks, hopefully.
Yeah, I would get bored or have other stuff pop up.  This is a more interesting site indeed. ;-)
Title: Re: DJ Omnimaga resigns from Omnimaga manager
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 26, 2010, 02:57:54 am
Ah ok. I hope your interest towards calcs remains for a while. :)
Title: Re: DJ Omnimaga resigns from Omnimaga manager
Post by: jnesselr on December 26, 2010, 04:45:29 pm
Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on December 26, 2010, 02:57:54 am
Ah ok. I hope your interest towards calcs remains for a while. :)
Well, actually, the only reason I got back into calcs was because of the fact that there was that Axe competition that inspired TAO. Then TAO became a huge undertaking, so I stayed.

Spoiler For Spoiler:
But don't think you're getting rid of me when TAO is done.
Title: Re: DJ Omnimaga resigns from Omnimaga manager
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 26, 2010, 04:46:40 pm
Quote from: graphmastur on December 26, 2010, 04:45:29 pm
Spoiler For Spoiler:
But don't think you're getting rid of me when TAO is done.
D:

j/k

But I see now, I remember you joined immediately after the contest got announced. Then you announced TAO. I'm glad you stayed.
Title: Re: DJ Omnimaga resigns from Omnimaga manager
Post by: jnesselr on December 26, 2010, 05:09:45 pm
Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on December 26, 2010, 04:46:40 pm
Quote from: graphmastur on December 26, 2010, 04:45:29 pm
Spoiler For Spoiler:
But don't think you're getting rid of me when TAO is done.
D:

j/k

But I see now, I remember you joined immediately after the contest got announced. Then you announced TAO. I'm glad you stayed.
I think DJ is trying to get rid of me. Maybe that would explain all those rickrolls... :)
Title: Re: DJ Omnimaga resigns from Omnimaga manager
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 26, 2010, 05:10:32 pm
But I didn't rickroll as much as I used to D:

Now you just lose the game more. :P
Title: Re: DJ Omnimaga resigns from Omnimaga manager
Post by: Munchor on December 26, 2010, 05:11:29 pm
Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on December 26, 2010, 05:10:32 pm
But I didn't rickroll as much as I used to D:

Now you just lose the game more. :P

 :hyper:

Why is this smilie associated with 'losing the game'?
Title: Re: DJ Omnimaga resigns from Omnimaga manager
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 27, 2010, 02:32:53 pm
No clue, I had no idea for a name and decided to just associate it with the game. :P
Title: Re: DJ Omnimaga resigns from Omnimaga manager
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 29, 2010, 11:00:34 pm
I'M returning in the manager group tonight, but I'M not gonna be that active until at least Friday. I'll be posting news and doing some minore forum updates, as well as staff changes.

I also started discussing with Eeems about ways to ensure that forum members realizes that there is not just one admin in the team. One thing in particular involves that the entire management team will be notified of requests sent via PM if a member only PMs one admin for one, unless the admin who got the request answers it immediately. I'll also be checking with all admins to ensure they will be active enough in the next months to do it, so I can apply changes to the admin team, if necessary.  The latter would ensure that not just one single admin (recently, Hot Dog, then later, me) is stuck with all the work.
Title: Re: DJ Omnimaga resigns from Omnimaga manager
Post by: AngelFish on December 29, 2010, 11:07:04 pm
DJ, I think the problem has something to do with the fact that it's your name on the website  :P

 :hyper:

By the way, Welcome back :w00t:
Title: Re: DJ Omnimaga resigns from Omnimaga manager
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 29, 2010, 11:17:57 pm
Yeah that might not help X.x. If you notice on the front page, I listed myself last in the list now. I'll also move the red text in my sig around so people notice.

Thanks, by the way. I was still kinda around, just not as active (and will remain that way until the weekend)
Title: Re: DJ Omnimaga resigns from Omnimaga manager
Post by: jnesselr on December 29, 2010, 11:22:07 pm
Wb. I don't know how hard it is to be admin of omnimaga, but i'm sure it's not easy.
Title: Re: DJ Omnimaga resigns from Omnimaga manager
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 29, 2010, 11:23:16 pm
Especially when someone can't even spell the site name poporelly. :P
Title: Re: DJ Omnimaga resigns from Omnimaga manager
Post by: Michael_Lee on December 29, 2010, 11:25:25 pm
You were gone for... seven days?
When you said you were taking a break, I thought it would be longer then that... :P

In any case, I'm glad you're back, DJ.
Title: Re: DJ Omnimaga resigns from Omnimaga manager
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 29, 2010, 11:43:36 pm
Nah I was still around. There were just periods where I didn't post for 2 days or an entire day, while before I posted 100 times a day most days.

My break was supposed to last til new year is done. Actually despite putting myself back as admin I'm still not doing the entire task. I just wanted to be able to post news and do some minor stuff. My activity will also probably remain sparse for a while since my work schedule is different for the next two weeks. I also try to vary my activities more.
Title: Re: DJ Omnimaga resigns from Omnimaga manager
Post by: jnesselr on December 29, 2010, 11:50:22 pm
Quote from: graphmastur on December 29, 2010, 11:22:07 pm
Wb. I don't know how hard it is to be admin of omnimaga, but i'm sure it's not easy.
Fixed. It is difficult typing on an ipod sometimes.
Title: Re: DJ Omnimaga resigns from Omnimaga manager
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 29, 2010, 11:51:01 pm
No problem, I was just messing around :P
Title: Re: DJ Omnimaga resigns from Omnimaga manager
Post by: Eeems on December 30, 2010, 01:05:43 am
:)
Don't forget everybody if you need something done, there are a few of us managers who can help, and recently I've been idling all day in IRC, so just highlight/pm me if you need me I'm glad to help :)
Title: Re: DJ Omnimaga resigns from Omnimaga manager
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 30, 2010, 01:06:57 am
No problem.