Author Topic: Anyone know who this is? (Read 11027 times)

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #15 on:** January 29, 2013, 01:46:35 am »

Maybe to get new members on their respective sites

(maybe if some Omni members visit Yahoo Answers they could link to Omni tutorials as well sometimes when someone need specific help

)

Jonius7 · « **Reply #16 on:** January 29, 2013, 02:31:03 am »

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.

Quote from: Juju on October 31, 2012, 11:09:58 pm

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.

Quote from: Rhombicuboctahedron on January 29, 2013, 01:05:26 am

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.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #17 on:** January 29, 2013, 03:36:59 am »

YEah true, Kerm is very anti Nspire CX so that probably explains it

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.

ElementCoder · « **Reply #18 on:** January 29, 2013, 04:40:41 am »

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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

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #19 on:** January 29, 2013, 05:02:11 am »

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)

Juju · « **Reply #20 on:** January 29, 2013, 12:15:06 pm »

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.

persalteas · « **Reply #21 on:** January 29, 2013, 12:47:01 pm »

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.

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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.

Juju · « **Reply #22 on:** January 29, 2013, 12:49:48 pm »

I guess it's fine then. Good luck to him ^_^

Lionel Debroux · « **Reply #23 on:** January 29, 2013, 01:30:03 pm »

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.

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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 ^^

persalteas · « **Reply #24 on:** January 29, 2013, 01:34:43 pm »

Yes, just wait. It's around 2 months... 10 months remaining, so.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #25 on:** January 29, 2013, 04:59:15 pm »

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.

Rhombicuboctahedron · « **Reply #26 on:** January 29, 2013, 05:13:35 pm »

Quote from: persalteas on January 29, 2013, 12:47:01 pm

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.

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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.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #27 on:** January 29, 2013, 05:22:17 pm »

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.

Scipi · « **Reply #28 on:** January 29, 2013, 05:24:54 pm »

Quote from: persalteas on January 29, 2013, 12:47:01 pm

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.

Quote
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.

Quote from: Rhombicuboctahedron on January 29, 2013, 01:05:26 am

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.

Rhombicuboctahedron · « **Reply #29 on:** January 29, 2013, 05:38:27 pm »

Quote from: DJ_O on January 29, 2013, 05:22:17 pm

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.

Quote from: HOMER-16 on January 29, 2013, 05:24:54 pm

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.

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

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