habbox st patricks day quest?

[sex]

all the other fansites seem to have done a badge (9 other site)
just wondering is habbox doing something and if not, why?

[rnix]

it's with your trophies! KIDDING

It would be nice to see habbox do some more as other fansites [very small ones] seem to be able to do it easily!

[James]

Most likely isn't one because management take forever to organise things.

[Kyle]

you would think so considering forum manager is irish!

doesn't look like it though... :(

[Samantha]

We had something planned and everything, I believe we missed the deadline though :(.

[Kyle]

gl habbox in fansite reapplication lol

[FlyingJesus]

Unlike Habbox to miss deadlines on major events

[Kardan]

I see the new AGM team is working well then :P

What would the event have been anyway?

[Kyle]

I see the new AGM team is working well then :P

What would the event have been anyway?
cupid's challenge maze with a leprechaun pet in entrance

[scottish]

We had something planned and everything, I believe we missed the deadline though :(.

why

[Inseriousity.]

Well Phil's only been forum manager for a week or two. Shame to miss the deadline, what was the idea?

[Kardan]

Well Phil's only been forum manager for a week or two. Shame to miss the deadline, what was the idea?

Why is the forum manager in charge of Habbo quests?

[scottish]

What does phil have to do with it, he's forum management not community AGM, surely it's community AGMs job to sort out in game related events, n othing to do with forum manager..

[Inseriousity.]

Oh I know, someone else referenced it though.

[scottish]

Only reference to forum manager was fact he's irish, nothing to do with booking/organising event :p

[sex]

whoever was in charge wasn't in a good mood

[scottish]

then should step down if they cba doing their job because they're not in a happy mood

[Yawn]

st patricks day is ruined

[Stephen]

/slits

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[Chris]

I knew nothing of this event, but I'm sure Sam has a perfectly reasonable explanation as to why she was unable to do what she had planned.

It's a little bit late now, but perhaps we could do a very limited edition donator with an award and release it this evening. That does depend on whether Phil is online and happy to do it though.

[scottish]

I knew nothing of this event, but I'm sure Sam has a perfectly reasonable explanation as to why she was unable to do what she had planned.

It's a little bit late now, but perhaps we could do a very limited edition donator with an award and release it this evening. That does depend on whether Phil is online and happy to do it though.

I'd like to hear why it was unable to go ahead.

[sex]

I knew nothing of this event, but I'm sure Sam has a perfectly reasonable explanation as to why she was unable to do what she had planned.

It's a little bit late now, but perhaps we could do a very limited edition donator with an award and release it this evening. That does depend on whether Phil is online and happy to do it though.

meant on habbo, since every other site had an event win a badge
afaik she didnt need to plan anything. all the rooms where done using builders club and all had the same task given by habbo lol.
would have taken an hour to make a room, even less

[Kyle]

ok I'll just say what everyon is thinking..... I highly doubt there was anything 'planned' at all - probably too busy revamping news or some other behind the scenes rubbish. this is a big occasion that had guidelines for each fansite that were easily followed and our community departments either weren't made aware or weren't dedicated enough to the cause to make something happen. valentine event was ugly and paddys day one is non existant. lets just hope that the easter one that has seemingly been being organised for the past 2 months is not quite as terrible.
Drew; did ur team make us a badge?

[Chris]

I'd like to hear why it was unable to go ahead.

I'm sure she'll explain that when shes online again later.


meant on habbo, since every other site had an event win a badge
afaik she didnt need to plan anything. all the rooms where done using builders club and all had the same task given by habbo lol.
would have taken an hour to make a room, even less

Oh you mean that. I was aware of the planning for it but I don't know what happened with it.

[Kardan]

How much did lawrawrrr; know about this?

[sex]

I'm sure she'll explain that when shes online again later.



Oh you mean that. I was aware of the planning for it but I don't know what happened with it.

thats what im saying why does there need to be planning for such a simple event. any normal person would have just went on and build a room then req a badge. its simple?

[lawrawrrr]

Does it matter who knew what? We missed one event. We'll be working to make sure it doesn't happen again.


on phone xx

[Kyle]

code for i knew nothing^
falling apart at the seams!

[sex]

Does it matter who knew what? We missed one event. We'll be working to make sure it doesn't happen again.


on phone xx

its not the only one, there was one a while back where habbox was missing from also
the fact the people come into hx and say "is habbox still open" speaks volume i think

[FlyingJesus]

Too busy working on the Habbox 10 year anniversary events and thinking of how to decorate HxHD for Christmas 2012

[scottish]

Does it matter who knew what? We missed one event. We'll be working to make sure it doesn't happen again.


on phone xx

Yes. Doesn't matter if it's only 1, that's a problem, sort it out and tell us why it failed.

[Kardan]

I just think AGMs should focus on AGM roles rather than other roles personally.

[Inseriousity.]

ok I'll just say what everyon is thinking..... I highly doubt there was anything 'planned' at all - probably too busy revamping news or some other behind the scenes rubbish. this is a big occasion that had guidelines for each fansite that were easily followed and our community departments either weren't made aware or weren't dedicated enough to the cause to make something happen. valentine event was ugly and paddys day one is non existant. lets just hope that the easter one that has seemingly been being organised for the past 2 months is not quite as terrible.
@Drew (http://www.habboxforum.com/member.php?u=118080); did ur team make us a badge?

Do you know what these guidelines were or just speculating?
In my experience, Habbo are rubbish with instructions, often ambiguous and subject to change on their whim and suddenly what you had planned needs an immediate overhaul (although the latter may have been teething problems cos fansite spotlight was new, it got a bit more stable later on). It's still not an excuse to missing the deadline though and new badges are definitely a way to get instant advertising. I don't think fansites have worked out just yet precisely how to manipulate it to its maximum potential for long-term benefit but missing that opportunity is a shame.

I know I go on about lack of leadership in the general management team but in Matt's defence, he did keep a close eye on things like this (probably cos he recognises how important it is) so we also need to ask what he was (or wasn't) doing during this too.

[sex]

Do you know what these guidelines were or just speculating?
In my experience, Habbo are rubbish with instructions, often ambiguous and subject to change on their whim and suddenly what you had planned needs an immediate overhaul (although the latter may have been teething problems cos fansite spotlight was new, it got a bit more stable later on). It's still not an excuse to missing the deadline though and new badges are definitely a way to get instant advertising. I don't think fansites have worked out just yet precisely how to manipulate it to its maximum potential for long-term benefit but missing that opportunity is a shame.

I know I go on about lack of leadership in the general management team but in Matt's defence, he did keep a close eye on things like this (probably cos he recognises how important it is) so we also need to ask what he was (or wasn't) doing during this too.

All the rooms has some sort of leprechaun or design to match the badge, they all also had the same objective (fill up a space with x amount of habbos to get the badge) - I doubt all 9 of the fansites who bothered to participate in this came together to suggest they do the exact same thing.

[Inseriousity.]

so no real need to come up with any original idea and struggle for days trying to think of something that isn't a maze? Well if that's the case, that sounds like a really boring fansite event (9 fansites with the exact same thing?) but if it was that straightforward, it's difficult to imagine how anything could've been planned yet not materialised.
I'm assuming then that Habbo delegated badges or were they designed by graphics team then make a room from that?

[sex]

so no real need to come up with any original idea and struggle for days trying to think of something that isn't a maze? Well if that's the case, that sounds like a really boring fansite event (9 fansites with the exact same thing?) but if it was that straightforward, it's difficult to imagine how anything could've been planned yet not materialised.
I'm assuming then that Habbo delegated badges or were they designed by graphics team then make a room from that?

9 different but cute badges, it would have been packed........ so what if it wasnt difficult lol

[Kardan]

so no real need to come up with any original idea and struggle for days trying to think of something that isn't a maze? Well if that's the case, that sounds like a really boring fansite event (9 fansites with the exact same thing?) but if it was that straightforward, it's difficult to imagine how anything could've been planned yet not materialised.
I'm assuming then that Habbo delegated badges or were they designed by graphics team then make a room from that?

From the badges I've seen, they look like they were designed by the fansites.

[Inseriousity.]

Just find it a waste of fansites' potential, that's all, but definitely did not suggest that we shouldn't have bothered! Habbos go crazy for badges so just for that alone we should ask how high every time we need to jump.

[xxMATTGxx]

I'm not going to blame anyone but we simply missed the deadline for this event. All the emails that were sent to us was posted by myself and I made sure that General Management were tagged into it (especially Community AGM) to make sure that they can look into it and deal with it necessary. I wasn't fully around as I've had to go outside the Habbox world and do some other personal business.

I know Laura asked about the deadline and the task with Sam a couple of times - I am not sure where that went as I think that was in private channels rather than in the group skype chat.

Although what I do recommended is we do the following seeing as there is four of us and even If I'm not here it should still be able to get done:


Emails when they are arrive into the inbox ---> Get posted in AGM Forum (They do already)
Reminders set on some sort of application or service (OneNote / Google Calendar) depending on what the others use to remind them of such tasks and that they need to be completed by X.
Lock the Community AGM in a room with a computer.


That way all members of General Management know what needs to be done, by when even If myself or one of the others isn't there. So I apologise for us missing the deadline it just seems to have been bad timing but we'll get that sorted.

[lawrawrrr]

When I was first promtoted to AGM, and got back from leave, there was an email from Sulake in a thread, which I asked a few questions and came up with an idea for. I think it was posted before I actually joined, and I was on limited activity until the deadline (I think, I didn't really know when the deadline was).


Then, getting settled into my own role (which TECHNICALLY doesn't have anything to do with community although I'm more than happy to help out, and will be looking further into events in the future!), means that it did kinda slip my mind a bit. I did ask about the deadline more than once but with both the Community AGM and GM taking a bit of a step back this week for personal issues I think it's extremely counter-productive to be quite so negative as y'all are.

In future though, you can all rest assured that with a new, very well-functioning and communicating AGM team, we will be searching out and pushing our involvement in events like this.

It's something to look into as well, creating a definitive calendar of what things we as a fansite have to do on certain days, something which I've suggested to the GM team now.

- - - Updated - - -


I'm not going to blame anyone but we simply missed the deadline for this event. All the emails that were sent to us was posted by myself and I made sure that General Management were tagged into it (especially Community AGM) to make sure that they can look into it and deal with it necessary. I wasn't fully around as I've had to go outside the Habbox world and do some other personal business.

I know Laura asked about the deadline and the task with Sam a couple of times - I am not sure where that went as I think that was in private channels rather than in the group skype chat.

Although what I do recommended is we do the following seeing as there is four of us and even If I'm not here it should still be able to get done:


Emails when they are arrive into the inbox ---> Get posted in AGM Forum (They do already)
Reminders set on some sort of application or service (OneNote / Google Calendar) depending on what the others use to remind them of such tasks and that they need to be completed by X.
Lock the Community AGM in a room with a computer.



omfg you definitely stole that google calendar idea from what i just posted m8

also i would definitely not complain about being locked in a room with u + sam

[lemons]

am SO ANGRY i hate u habbox

[FlyingJesus]

Just find it a waste of fansites' potential, that's all, but definitely did not suggest that we shouldn't have bothered! Habbos go crazy for badges so just for that alone we should ask how high every time we need to jump.

Bigger waste of potential to do nothing because the staff member who's supposed to do it didn't feel like it :P


In future though, you can all rest assured that with a new, very well-functioning and communicating AGM team, we will be searching out and pushing our involvement in events like this.

I agree; we do need a new, very well-functioning and communicating AGM team

[Aiden]

get wunderlist guys (y)

[Inseriousity.]

Definitely, missing the deadline could've been easily avoided even if it did end up needing to be delegated downwards to a department manager.
The calendar/reminders thing is a good idea. Poor Chris though, by sounds of it, he's going to be talking through the keyhole while matt, sam and laura are locked inside. ;)

[xxMATTGxx]

Definitely, missing the deadline could've been easily avoided even if it did end up needing to be delegated downwards to a department manager.
The calendar/reminders thing is a good idea. Poor Chris though, by sounds of it, he's going to be talking through the keyhole while matt, sam and laura are locked inside. ;)

I've confirmed it with Chris and he wants a bit of the action as well.

[Kardan]

Now that a content manager has finally been appointed, there's one less job for AGM to be doing - although they're still in charge of the news department as far as I know.

[MKR&*42]

ok I'll just say what everyon is thinking..... I highly doubt there was anything 'planned' at all - probably too busy revamping news or some other behind the scenes rubbish. this is a big occasion that had guidelines for each fansite that were easily followed and our community departments either weren't made aware or weren't dedicated enough to the cause to make something happen. valentine event was ugly and paddys day one is non existant. lets just hope that the easter one that has seemingly been being organised for the past 2 months is not quite as terrible.
Drew; did ur team make us a badge?

No graphics request for anything st Patricks related iirc.

Sorry if someone already told you, only read first page of thread :P

[Kardan]

No graphics request for anything st Patricks related iirc.

Sorry if someone already told you, only read first page of thread :P

Fired for leaking information.

[MKR&*42]

Fired for leaking information.

Y
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[scottish]

I don't know why contents brought into it (other than maybe advertising after it's planned and organized), massive fail on community AGM and event managers side from what I can see.

If the community AGM cba doing their job for irl problems (time to resign) then should have specifically told another AGM to deal with it or to get events manager to take care of it, not just ignore it.

Habbo users are massive badge *****s, so this is easy advertising and easy way to get some new users. But instead they sit with their thumbs up their arses doing nothing and failing a deadline apparently every other fansite can easily manage.

[Lewis]

I don't know why contents brought into it (other than maybe advertising after it's planned and organized), massive fail on community AGM and event managers side from what I can see.

If the community AGM cba doing their job for irl problems (time to resign) then should have specifically told another AGM to deal with it or to get events manager to take care of it, not just ignore it.

Habbo users are massive badge *****s, so this is easy advertising and easy way to get some new users. But instead they sit with their thumbs up their arses doing nothing and failing a deadline apparently every other fansite can easily manage.

I wasn't told anything about this, so yeah :P. I'm sure Samanfa was probably planning something, some things just don't go to plan.

[FlyingJesus]

Doesn't sound like there was a plan for things to go to

[wixard]

usually i don't care/post in these threads because it's just a fansite at the end of the day, but really poor show not making the deadline. there aren't that many big/seasonal events throughout the year there's really no excuse, that's just being lazy

[sex]

samanfa feels like she has to do everything herself then makes a big deal about having to do it, there was a fansite event last year and mike asked me and i made a room in an hour for him lol. that was done simply enough

doesn't have to be some top secret project

[Smurfed-]

lets just hope that the easter one that has seemingly been being organised for the past 2 months is not quite as terrible.

I was about to say the same thing, it seems that planning for Easter has been going on since February. Let's hope it's something special.

[lawrawrrr]

I agree; we do need a new, very well-functioning and communicating AGM team

Good job we've got one now then isn't it! I'm sure next time an event like this is told to us we'll all discuss it, rather than 2 of us being thrown into it just after it was posted ;)


on phone xx

[FlyingJesus]

Sam's been AGM for 3 months, this job was hers

[lawrawrrr]

Ah but as she was away there was no one to fall back on really - that's why we'll be prepared for next time :)


on phone xx

[Drew]

ok I'll just say what everyon is thinking..... I highly doubt there was anything 'planned' at all - probably too busy revamping news or some other behind the scenes rubbish. this is a big occasion that had guidelines for each fansite that were easily followed and our community departments either weren't made aware or weren't dedicated enough to the cause to make something happen. valentine event was ugly and paddys day one is non existant. lets just hope that the easter one that has seemingly been being organised for the past 2 months is not quite as terrible.
Drew; did ur team make us a badge?


No graphics request for anything st Patricks related iirc.

Sorry if someone already told you, only read first page of thread :P
Like Hayden said, the badge wasn't requested. Shame that we missed this, the other fansites did really well with their badges.

[FlyingJesus]

"But no-one else could do it! (http://www.habboxforum.com/showgroups.php)"

Poor excuses for poor work

[Yawn]

i cant believe literally nothing was done and that the job wasnt given to some1 else........
like w t f its actually embarrassing wat the hell were u doing. it was the most simple task as well

[lawrawrrr]

o k

We get the message

We did a silly

It most definitely will not happen again

What more do you wannntttt


on phone xx

[Phil]

Hey everyone! I just came back now and I'm heading off again for the night so I'll reply then. Just letting you know that I'm not avoiding this thread, I'm just very busy! It's probably nothing to do with me but I was mentioned in the first page even though I knew nothing about this Event :L

I'll reply properly tomorrow and answer any questions directed at me (if there were any) then. :)

[Kardan]

o k

We get the message

We did a silly

It most definitely will not happen again

What more do you wannntttt


on phone xx

Added this post to my favourites as well.

[lawrawrrr]

That's fine ;) Now I know what happens on our end when it comes to events it shouldn't be too hard to support Sam :)


on phone xx

[FlyingJesus]

Could do with some new dress shoes

[Samantha]

I posted away last week and the thread in which the event was in was posted in by 3/4 of us, I have a feeling I didn't know everything then as I was unware of using Builder's Club :S?

We missed the deadline and we're not going to let it happen again as my stuff is sorted out and we do have a great team now. However, could someone shed light on Easter planning as only managers and graphics staff should know that it's being planned now.

[FlyingJesus]

Not like it's your job to look into such community matters or anything, and yeah of course the real issue is that people have a calendar and know that Easter is soon

[Smurfed-]

I posted away last week and the thread in which the event was in was posted in by 3/4 of us, I have a feeling I didn't know everything then as I was unware of using Builder's Club :S?

We missed the deadline and we're not going to let it happen again as my stuff is sorted out and we do have a great team now. However, could someone shed light on Easter planning as only managers and graphics staff should know that it's being planned now.

You've mentioned it a few times in various feedback threads.

[Samantha]

You've mentioned it a few times in various feedback threads.

Ah thank you.
FlyingJesus; I know it is, but I needed to post away and I believe the other members of the GM team would do the same in the given situation.

[Jurv]

seems like general management are always posted away

such a shame that an opportunity like that has gone to waste

[Lewis]

Hey everyone! I just came back now and I'm heading off again for the night so I'll reply then. Just letting you know that I'm not avoiding this thread, I'm just very busy! It's probably nothing to do with me but I was mentioned in the first page even though I knew nothing about this Event :L

I'll reply properly tomorrow and answer any questions directed at me (if there were any) then. :)

That makes two :P.

But yeah, I'd be more than happy to help next time if I'm told about it, not sure if there's going to be a specific fansite week for easter?

[Samantha]

That makes two :P.

But yeah, I'd be more than happy to help next time if I'm told about it, not sure if there's going to be a specific fansite week for easter?

Not too sure for Easter yet, it'll probably be discussed in the next meeting :).

[scottish]

So the events manager knew nothing about the official event in the first place?

Great planning.

If you're posting away for whatever reason surely it's your job to make sure others are aware of something that could potentially increase advertising for habbox and bring some new users in?

Rather just '**** it they can figure it out'

[Samantha]

So the events manager knew nothing about the official event in the first place?

Great planning.

If you're posting away for whatever reason surely it's your job to make sure others are aware of something that could potentially increase advertising for habbox and bring some new users in?

Rather just '**** it they can figure it out'

There was a thread in AGM only, and it had been discussed on Skype. The Event Manager knew nothing about it as it isn't an event as such - the idea was (that I knew of), we make an Irish shape in a room and players come in standing on the squares to make that shape then go through the teleport to receive the prize. It wasn't too big of an event that it needed to be delegated. Yeah, we missed out on it, but there are a few others that can also potentially increase advertising for Habbox, just this time we missed a deadline.

[FlyingJesus]

Obviously did need to be delegated if you weren't going to be around

[Samantha]

Obviously did need to be delegated if you weren't going to be around

Unfortunately, I didn't know I would have to take time off, things just piled up irl which stopped me from doing various duties.

[scottish]

There was a thread in AGM only, and it had been discussed on Skype. The Event Manager knew nothing about it as it isn't an event as such - the idea was (that I knew of), we make an Irish shape in a room and players come in standing on the squares to make that shape then go through the teleport to receive the prize. It wasn't too big of an event that it needed to be delegated. Yeah, we missed out on it, but there are a few others that can also potentially increase advertising for Habbox, just this time we missed a deadline.

So basically what it was, as an event on habbo. The department that comes to mind.. events.

It obviously was too big of an event that it needed to be delegated as you failed to do it.

Sure there's loads others can do to increase advertising, but this was an easy global habbo advertisement that would reach thousands, and you failed to utilize it.

[Daltron]

Surely this won't look good to Sulake right now, failing to include this site in a major event when they are currently reassessing what fansites should be official?

I have read about half this thread and don't care for your plethora of internal problems but come on guys get it together. This is meant to be one of the best fansites are you're all flailing about without a clue.

[sex]

fire her!

[Kyle]

dying jesus for agm

[Sian]

i swear a lot of you go on about life over habbo, and because an agm was away (for real life reasons which should always take priority, not forgetting she took on this job thinking everything would be fine, you don't know what's going to happen anymore) and you shoot them down.

just a learning curve, if anything, that things should and can be relegated to events management. Just saying.