Omnimaga
Omnimaga => News => Topic started by: DJ Omnimaga on February 16, 2009, 01:25:28 am
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There have been talk about staff hiring for several months alerady, especially in the last two weeks, but it is official now. Omnimaga is hiring new staff members, specifically Coders Of Tomorrow.
Currently we are seeking for programmers for TI calculators. TI programmers can program for whichever model(s) they desire (z80 or 68k), using the language(s) they want (TI-BASIC, ASM, C, BBC, FastRPL, etc). We, at Omnimaga, are mostly aimed toward game creation as well as game producing tools creation. As staff, you are granted the following:
-The ability to upload your games and programs to the download section (under "Our Own Work")
-Sub-forums for each of your projects (under "Our Projects"), which will be listed on our front page as well as your member profile
-Moderator priviledges (you don't have to moderate the board, since admins are online very often and there isn't much moderation to do here since we try to provide an environment free of hostility, but if for example you want to create a read-only topic, a topic was posted in the wrong section or you accidentally posted twice then you have the ability to correct the issue.)
-Because Omnimaga is also involved in music creation and Windows game producing, if you ever lose interest in calculator programming (which we do not hope!) and move to PC/Music developpement, such work can be uploaded in our archives (except remixes and covers) and you can still remain staff as long as you are willing to remain active on our forums.
Now here are the requirements to be able to apply for staff:
-Your user account must have been created at least two months ago. Else, there will be a delay before your application is processed (altough it might be rounded up to weekends, depending if I am busy or not).
-You need a total of 50 posts total in the past two months.
-You need to have a calculator game project in the works. Screenshot or detailled description and indication of any progress will help. Altough we welcome newer programmers we still try to keep a certain quality control, so if your project is "UB3R 4W350M3 GR4Y5C4L3 YU-GI-OH LIFE POINT COUNTER OF THE DOOM" your application is gonna be rejected.
-You must have followed the forum rules in your entire stay at Omnimaga (this includes all incarnations of Omnimaga forums from 2004 to 2009 and the IRC channel)
-If you used to be Omnimaga staff before, you can only re-apply if you meet the above requirements and haven't been demoted for any reason more than once.
These requirements are simply to make sure that we know who we are going to hire, what they are up to and if they are going to be active, not just dissapear randomly every month or two. As mentionned on our front page, our goal is to provide a discussion environment free of any hostility for all coders wanting to learn, give or get help, show off their work and/or discuss. If you meet these requirements and are interested in contributing to the team, simply send me a private message and I will look into your application.
Please note that there are no current time limit for this hiring run, meaning that if you haven't been here long enough to apply you can simply wait until you do or if you send it now I will let it pend until it has been two months since you joined. Don't send your application too much in advance, though, because I may forget.
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EDIT: Heh sent you a PM ::)
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ok thanks I will look into that next afternoon or evening
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Good, I hope that appears some new great programmers. I haven't though of joining as staff of any developing site. But I think I will stay as lone wolf. (I don't remember a better way to explain, right now)
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mhmm lone wolf might be the right way actually, because in Halo 3 on the Xbox 360 when you play online with no team in ranked mode the game mode is called Lone Wolves :D and i believe i heard this somewhere else.
I'Ll do some edit to the news though, because I need to clarify some stuff
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Good luck to all who apply, it is a great team to be apart of!
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Sorry. I refuse to join this militarain join for fear of losing my individuality :P
Nah, it's just easier being a member. In any case, I'm inelligible because I broke rules before ;)
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you broke the rules? you mean to say that you double posted? x.x
This is a terrible tragedy in the history of the ti community.
Unless you were posting porn or something, I'm sure the "rule breaking" can be forgiven ;)
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nah, just inciting hatred and hostility on the forums and irc, i almost caused the entire site to go down :)
doesn't matter, anyway, I'm not interested.
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@nitacku he doesn't want to be staff on a TI team/site. Actually he got hired at otbp but it was not him who asked and it was for the bot stuff and he left staff afterward.
@metagross111: if you actually deliberately try to offend people or deliberately cause trouble in the channel, either by calling people name, insulting them or trolling, then you broke a rule. Unfortunately misunderstoods can happen and happened, though, or decisions taken too fast about such matter, but in the 3 years OMnimaga had an IRC channel and an active forum, there are so many people who joined the site for the sole purpose of causing trouble that afterward it became close to impossible to make the difference when someone else joined to see if he isn't doing it intentionally or not.
We're lax on spam, though, as most IRC'ers could notice, altough of course, there's a line to not cross. We have a Randomness forum anyway (for registered members)
2 applications so far btw (altough one of them is gonna be processed only on Feb 25th)
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Sounds like funz. 15 posts > 50 ;)
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maybe, but this worries me that the users with so few posts will never really become active and care enough to become staff. Most people who had such low post counts in the past were demoted after only two months because they vanished completly from Omnimaga after one month they were hired. On top of that one of them even vanished the day of his hiring
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Fault of responsibility is a very nasty and common thing online. One thing is get full after years and just vanish for having no more motivation, other is just evaporate in days. But I think with your demands new, you will avoid many of those situations for sure.
And, yes is better less posts with quality than needless posts. Besides some needless can be fun. ;)
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yeah usually less active staff i hired just dissapeared within the first few days or weeks, even if the board has lot of active discussion. I understand when the person gets less active and cannot post anywhere, but I can make the difference between a staff being too busy and a staff not caring at all (by the later still being active elsewhere while not bothering about Omni). There are two only staff in the past that were not active here that became active after their hiring and stayed active all the time after their hiring and it's Halifax and Tenniskid493 but I don't know if that's a valid exception considering that they were not active anywhere else during most of the time they were staff.
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Interesting, don't see post relation important. I've been part of Unitedti since early 2006, which is pretty long to meh in the calculator "scene", but I only haz 16 posts. :P
Oh well ;o
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Well it's more a policy that Omnimaga staff needs to participate to the forums, I don't want staff that appears like once a month to tell they added a new sprite to their projects or changed the title screen a bit.
It's a matter of personal opinion, though. From experience, staff with so few posts or so few posts in the last few months usually dissapeared after a few months. Tama, Tstach, JFISH, Harrierfalcon, JincS, BCTurk (altough he left on his own), Master Jc, Snake (not the guy on Revsoft), Tstach. All are staff who hardly ever posted when hired and they all dissapeared every few months and I had to beg them to post every few week.
Personally if I have to beg to a staff to even post at all, I feel he doesn't really care.
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Interesting, don't see post relation important. I've been part of Unitedti since early 2006, which is pretty long to meh in the calculator "scene", but I only haz 16 posts. :P
Oh well ;o
I had about 400 and now about 425ish, from 2006 I was/am staff there too :P
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Btw, there are some chances that the minimum post count in 2 months requirement is lifted to apply for staff. However, it will only be with the approval of the rest of the current Omnimaga staff next week. There are no deadline to apply yet too. It might simply be reduced a bit, maybe to 20 or 25, since one of our staff didn't even have that about a week ago. The 2 months old account requirement will still stand, though
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Hmm, this staffing suddenly doesn't seem like the best idea. If anything, I think you should lose the less active members, unless they reported they would be away for some time.
Call it a premonition if you will. It just doesn't look professional to have all those staff members o_O
I suppose if you planned to lay a few off, then it would be ok. I dunno. I'm just gonna shut my mouth now :X
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well in the past we had 25 staff for 2 years in a row and 20 during the second half of 2007 and we didn't have problems, except two staff in particular who started causing trouble, especially the CDI guy when I hired Netham45. (he hated Netham45 for no reason) We were guaranteed to at least have 4 or 5 projects progressing regulary.
THe major difference right now is that the staff I hired so far are mostly people I knew for a long while before adding them to the team.
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-You must have followed the forum rules in your entire stay at Omnimaga (this includes all incarnations of Omnimaga forums from 2004 to 2009 and the IRC channel)
I feel discriminated aganst.
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you should.
***metagross111 slaps Drak around for a bit.
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you should.
***metagross111 slaps Drak around for a bit.
what the, you cant roleplay on a roleplaying server.
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you should.
***metagross111 slaps Drak around for a bit.
what the, you cant roleplay on a roleplaying server.
I can roleplay on a roleplaying server whenever the hell I want!
***metagross111 pulls out some huge weaponry! Drak eats lead.
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you should.
***metagross111 slaps Drak around for a bit like a tool.
srsly though. last thursday someone tried to roleplay with me and they wound up calling the party van and they dialed whine one one to get the wambulance to take them to intensive care (because nobody gave a crap.) (http://thottbot.com/i36812)
what the, you cant roleplay on a roleplaying server.
I can roleplay on a roleplaying server whenever the hell I want!
***metagross111 pulls out some huge weaponry! Drak has to deal with attempted IRC style /me effects.
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You edited a quote! you can't do that..... that is totally against internet etiquette :O
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You edited a quote! you can't do that..... that is totally against internet etiquette :O WAAAAH WHINE WHUN WHUN NAO!
anyway back to topic GOOD LUCK and congratulations to anyone who gets on the position. It's a tough job I'd imagine yeah?
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You edited a quote! you can't do that..... that is totally against internet etiquette :O WAAAAH WHINE WHUN WHUN NAO!
anyway back to topic GOOD LUCK and congratulations to anyone who gets on the position. It's a tough job I'd imagine yeah?
[whisper]Not really... ^_~[/whisper]
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Not tough, but not terribly rewarding either :P
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Can I apply?
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Can I apply?
I think you know the answer.
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"Yes?"
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Can I apply?
Everyone is allowed to apply, I'm sure o_O
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I have a lot more than 6 posts too. They must have gotten lost somewhere down the road.
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Can I apply?
Everyone is allowed to apply, I'm sure o_O
Yes everyone can apply but we all know dj's response.
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I have a lot more than 6 posts too. They must have gotten lost somewhere down the road.
Randomness?
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Can I apply?
Everyone is allowed to apply, I'm sure o_O
Yes everyone can apply but we all know dj's response.
Which would be "absolutely he can."
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Can I apply?
Everyone is allowed to apply, I'm sure o_O
Yes everyone can apply but we all know dj's response.
Which would be "absolutely he can."
you never know. he might have a response that is not what you're thinking.
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actually, DJ_Omnimaga has been MISSING (OMG!) for 48 hours. I wonder whats up? It's sort of weird.
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Can I apply?
Everyone is allowed to apply, I'm sure o_O
Yes everyone can apply but we all know dj's response.
Which would be "absolutely he can."
you never know. he might have a response that is not what you're thinking.
No, he loves me. You're all delusional.
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Can I apply?
Everyone is allowed to apply, I'm sure o_O
Yes everyone can apply but we all know dj's response.
Which would be "absolutely he can."
you never know. he might have a response that is not what you're thinking.
No, he loves me. You're all delusional.
i said nothing to the contrary.
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Can I apply?
Everyone is allowed to apply, I'm sure o_O
Yes everyone can apply but we all know dj's response.
Which would be "absolutely he can."
you never know. he might have a response that is not what you're thinking.
No, he loves me. You're all delusional.
i said nothing to the contrary.
Good. Otherwise I might have ceased liking you.
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Can I apply?
Sure, but, rather you get accepted or not is a different thing. :P
@metagross: He's been busy with a different site of his the past couple days.
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TIMGUL, or what?
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Yea.
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Can I apply?
Everyone is allowed to apply, I'm sure o_O
If they meet the requirements, yes. To awnser, the question, nope, since he doesn't :P
Plus we only accept users who are currently working on calculator games, right now anyway.
As for be being inactive lately, I apologise for that, altough that was not a reason to retaliate on TIMGUL by vandalizing it.
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it wasn't retaliation! it was a.......plea...... for attention! yeah!
(someone support me on this, plz)
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it wasn't retaliation! it was a.......plea...... for attention! yeah!
(someone support me on this, plz)
Quit pushing it. We screwed up.
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it wasn't retaliation! it was a.......plea...... for attention! yeah!
(someone support me on this, plz)
Quit pushing it. We screwed up.
of course we did.
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Can I apply?
Everyone is allowed to apply, I'm sure o_O
If they meet the requirements, yes. To awnser, the question, nope, since he doesn't :P
Plus we only accept users who are currently working on calculator games, right now anyway.
As for be being inactive lately, I apologise for that, altough that was not a reason to retaliate on TIMGUL by vandalizing it.
Glad to see you are back around, hope things are going well for you kevin!
Also, are you going to post news for those hired?
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i know one was hired already, though i don't think the staff list on the front page was updated yet.
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And it will probably never be if you continue your behaviour on TIMGUL
@kalan no it doesn't. I am sick to death of having to deal with shit on forums and right now you can blame the recent event and now metagross for forcing me to disable registrations completly on my other site
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whoa whoa whoa, what the hell is going on? we only trolled once on there and that was it.
i haven't visited your site since then, and i certainly haven't registered or did anything else.
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Then what was that? http://www.mtv-music-generator.com/index.php?topic=1473.msg9845#msg9845
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Then what was that? http://www.mtv-music-generator.com/index.php?topic=1473.msg9845#msg9845
Nobody can see that we've still got ip bans on.
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Oh wait I forgot but here's the post:
wat is music?
(http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k154/lequericacalvo/pikachu.jpg?t=1236039940)
It was posted in the "Please choose 4 members you would like to see in the TIMGUL council (moderators)" thread
As for the account:
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like i said, i have absolutely no idea. I never made that email account, and I only have one anyway. it looks like someone wanted to frame me and adopted my shorted IRC name.
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Now remember we shouldn't accuse him unless we have solid evidence against him.
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plus, can I add that that user is trying very hard to be me?
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This is probably something that would be best worked out via PM.
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Actually, this got resolved, and it turns out that the mtgross guy who signed up after metagross111, you and the 3 others got banned was not metagross111, but an imposter. The first attack was meant as a joke by you all, but the second attack was a deliberate attack by anonymous people (altough me and others have a big idea of who did it). The guy registered multiple accounts including one to impersonate metagross111, but in a sneaky way so we don't notice the multiple accounts, just one. It is clear it is who I think because it seemed planned in function of how we blocked the spam attack on the Omnimaga temporary board and the IRC channel back in February and one of the other 3 spam attacks that occured in the channel afterward. The spammer knew registrations would get disabled and he would get banned, so he registered multiple accounts under different proxies so he could still spam again even after registrations are disabled. I won't tell who it could be, but I am not alone to think it is him and we have some indications that makes it more sure it could be that person, such as IRC logs. Per precautions mesure, I deleted every accounts registered on TIMGUL after February. Some other accounts seemed suspicious so I didn't took any chance.
If, however, by the time registrations are disabled, I notice more spam on TIMGUL from suspicious accounts I never saw before or anything implying that the disabled registrations was bypassed, then it will mean we are getting hacked and I will be forced to take both Omnimaga and TIMGUL down until SMF releases SMF 2.0 Final or a 1.19 patch. Hacking/cracking is less likely to be the case, though. On top of that there are daily backups for Omnimaga being done and the entire hosting space content was backed up last night. This is not to mention that if the hacked did one thing wrong and accidentally revealed himself then he could get into serious trouble.
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Well I'm glad this could be resolved.
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Good to see this problem get solved kevin.
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yes, its nice to be finished with this
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At least now I got some staff there so it should be easier to handle these issues. I also discovered that there's a way to enable banning for non-admins on SMF, so if this ever became a huge issue at Omnimaga I could make the staff so they are allowed to ban people