Hmm, I have a solution I think:
-Change your name completely, something like "noob1337" or so.
-Change your avatar. Why not blank? Remove you entire signature.
-Let the Admins change your level from editor to member,
-Change your post count to 10,
-Disable all PMing to you and
-Censor the word 'omnimaga' every time you use it.

Or they could ban you?

* Stefan Bauwens runs

lol, thats good.


But seriously, think of all the people who are not omnimaga regulars.... and that doesn't mean they came from cemetech either. The first place I saw you was UCF, and the first place Casimo saw you was Planet Casio. Some have only heard about you on casiopeia. You can't expect them all to know that your not admin anymore, not when OMNIMAGA is in your avatar, and you are such a legend elsewhere. And some people, myself included at one point, have a hard time wrapping their minds around the fact that a founder and 12 year member would give up his admin position.

It will probably keep happening. The ones who do it also aren't the ones reading this thread.

Nah I don't think I really should have to change my nickname. That said, one nice forum addition (although I tried it and it looks ugly) would be to install the colored member names mod that shows the member color anywhere instead of just the online/new posts list. When people read topics, they would at least see the user color.

The other solution could be to literally put me in the members group, but add myself news editor privileges as a secondary group, so my staff member status of editor is hidden.

Also, maybe stickying the news telling who to PM in case of issues and adding the admins list and those who are not admin in the rules section and stuff.

@Eiyeron I only am posting this way to everyone because you are not the first person with who this happens. A lot of the people who did it, however, are active Omnimaga members who got enough time to see that my nickname color hasn't been blue in quite a while. Besides, if I was still admin, you would probably see me updating the projects sub-forums, approving files/tutorials and keeping the site navigation/version up to date on a regular basis anyway

Ok well, if me and Totoyo have posted news announcing their retirement, then there is a reason. Even if we are founder, we are still retired. We retired for a reason: We don't feel like doing this job anymore or cannot keep up with it any longer. Also, this doesn't mean we are still willing to forward admin tasks to actual admins.

I mean, if someone used to work in a grocery store as the boss and decides to retire at 65, you're not gonna continue bugging him so that the store gets gluten-free food in stock, right?

Hmm, good point DJ_O. Sometimes it bugs me when I am on break and I am looking for somthing to snack on and a somebody comes up to me with questions. A way to switch to 'plain clothes mode' would be useful on the internet. Maybe a little sprite could be used specifically for this ?

You have a point, but one last thing: the said boss is still helping the others in his grocery! :p

Yeah true, but when he retires, it his his choice if he decides to stop helping others. As I said, he is retiring for a reason.

Another idea could be to modify the current member icons so that the ones that don't say admin would have an extra message below telling users to PM admins for site issues/etc.

Well it depends. By experience, eeems for example would be much better than me for server management. If I ran the site I wouldn't even be able to manage a VPS since I would have no clue what I am doing. On the other hand I did some SMF admin in the past, so I might know more stuff on that point (such as how to create subforums).

Regarding posts per month, you also have to take in account that a lot of admin posts might be in the staff section, which members can't see. As a result, if an admin posts 10 times in projects, since members can't see the staff section, a 50 posts admin that posts 49 times in the staff section will look less active than the admin who posted 10 times.