Habbox Events

[Logandyer45]

Hello everyone,

So, I have been on and quite frankly, I am not pleased with the amount of events being held. There seem to be only 1 or 2 a day. I understand the Event's team is a hard team to be on, but I suggest a few things:

*Recruitment Fair/Job Fair
*Advertise the Events Team Applications
*Fast Track Events

Now, I will see posts from users saying "Why don't you join the Event's Team", well, quite frankly, I don't have time to do events. So, what do you think? More events?

[Kyle]

If you don't have time to join the events team then what makes you think that others do? :p currently management and senior/head djs are able to help out by hosting events and the only person that I've noticed that has even bothered doing so is Gina. I will be hosting events during the next week for the World Cup tournament, as will a number of those in the help desk department, and I'm sure others from other departments will host some too.

The current problem not just for events but for all departments is outside advertisement. Hxss is a perfect example as it's something that has always relied on hype generated within the forum and habbox official rooms only. What we need to do is work out a way to get the word out from quite literally outside of the box.

A recruitment fair? What would that involve? Didn't the agency fair in habbo flop? What other advertisement would you suggest? A trial for the events team is very short, is it really something that puts people off so much that a fast track option is needed?

More themed events would be cool. The commonwealth games are coming up in the last week of July. There's the game show thin Yuxin; has been working on and off for months, there's the World Cup tournament next week. Even if we make thse the best that they can possibly be it doesn't mean that any users attracted will be retained. There's the forum and the help desk as community 'hangouts' that also need a bit of work.

More events can be arranged. The rest needs some proper thought behind it.


~~from phone

[Matt]

These threads are all the same :(

So the current situation stands at the department having 7 staff in total. 1 manager, 2 seniors, 3 normal staff and 1 trialist. Tom is currently posted away so we're 1 member down already. The minimum is 3 events a week and most people have been meeting them. If we want people to go above and beyond we need to give incentives which require funds. A lot of these come from the manager and management so with Tom away, we'll have to wait and see what happens. The advertisement of Events Applications is pretty out there already. There is the additional message on the forum stating applications are open, there's the 'open' icon on habbox.com and staff can advertise whilst hosting their events also. What else do you suggest we do that advertises the fact that applications are open.

I'd have said the bottom line is that people don't see hosting Events appealing. Of course everyone wants to see more Events but there's only so much we can do. Applications have actually been opened since I joined in December and haven't actually closed since. With Samanfa adding the additional message on the forum and bumping the thread in Job Openings, it's up to people wanting to host rather than it all being 100% down to us.

You've actually answered your own question already. Other people don't have time to host Events, hence people don't apply!

[!:random!:!]

events hardly have any events organisers atm as many are resigning or not meeting there minimum. however id just like to comment whenever I do events I hardly can hold more than one game because people are choosing not to come and stay in the help desk so what is gunna motivate EO's if no one comes there events?

[Martin]

The minimum is 3 events a week and most people have been meeting them.!


events hardly have any events organisers atm as many are resigning or not meeting there minimum.


but which statement is correct? :O There's only one way to find out....

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I agree with everything Kyle said really, and I think it would be really nice to see more management hosting events to fill in some gaps too and interact with the wider community etc! :D

[Inseriousity.]

I've been to a few events recently, they rarely get off the ground til past the halfway mark if you're lucky. Some EOs are better than others, some just simply sit there and twiddle their thumbs knowing they're going to get an hour closer to their minimum for free. I wouldn't say it's totally the fault of the department manager, it's becoming more and more frequent that departments are not getting the applications they used to. Habbox is used to the sort of popularity where there was no need to connect and reach out to users because they would flock here themselves. When I first started using Habbo actively (end of 2008), I applied for the articles team three times before I was accepted. The articles team! I think Rhys would bite the hand off anyone who wished to apply now.

This is why I keep banging on about an action plan. We need ideas, we need projects, we need action. What are general management doing to build a Habbo base? How is Habbox going to attract people here to stay - the whole achievements system as it was suggested, for instance, was just 1 idea to answer this question? How is it working with the Habbo-based departments (HxHD, HxL) to increase exposure and advertisement? There is no plan, no goal, no vision.

Despite that, it seems this particular department is going through a really bad patch because the manager is away. It happens and it makes sense that someone would have to step in, usually an assistant/senior or even the AGM as seems to be the case here. What doesn't seem to make much sense to me is that Tom seems to be taking the piss. How many times has he posted away during his stint? I'm fairly certain he was away last month when questioned on his own lack of hosting. If someone is dragging the department down and they are not going to show any sign of self-awareness and resign then they need to be fired.

[Evanora]

well personally i think events organisers should be able to tell the difference between they're/their/there before being employed!!

[Kardan]

Events are at the lowest staff numbers they've had for a while, that's pretty much the main reason at the moment.

[Matt]

Events are at the lowest staff numbers they've had for a while, that's pretty much the main reason at the moment.

Couldn't be more true.
Bolt660; The people that weren't meeting their minimums resigned :P So most of the staff are now meeting their minimums, as 2 were posted away last week meaning they were hosting between 0 - 2 events each.

[Empired]

Is it not possible to go out into non-fansite event rooms and raise awareness for Habbox events? Didn't Lewis; (oops wrong forum name) used to go into those rooms and tell the hosts about Habbox and how they could apply for events? I know Lewis kept bugging me (that's a good thing btw) with PMs and VMs about returning as well. I think odey just needs to keep pushing people all the time.

i reckon the events manager should be able to go into random event rooms and, if the host is doing a good job, offer them a trial there and then. if you haven't had anything much to do with fansites before, the idea of going through an application and having to wait around for a response might be quite daunting.

[Drunq]

am gonna start hostin some soon but yew only gettin ff
ye i cant host! :(

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[Matt]

I know that hosting Events for a fansite can be quite different to hosting a normal Event on Habbo and I think this is something that deters people from applying. The amount of rules and protocols that we have in place (such as posting Community Notice Boards, warning systems, recording all event winners, booking events on a calendar and so on) are not things you'd normally do when you host a standard event that is not for a fansite. I agree with Charlies point and also think that this is another reason why people are perhaps more reluctant to join.

[Rachel]

I will start off with senior + hosting events. Seniors assist Head DJs when the Head DJ is hosting like a giveaway mostly and forgot what else. They won't host events like FF , etc (from my Head DJ experience). Head DJs has to host 2 or 3 events monthly as their requirement unless this have changed. As for the djs they do their best to promote the events on air if there is events on if not they wont. Although maybe promote on air every once in a while or have a jingle made to promote events can work a bit.

On the events side, you won't see many events on due to the amount of staff. You can't expect the same EO to do events 24/7...they do have a life of their own as well. It is sad to see that there is a lack of events at Habbox as we are an official fansite but we can't force them host every hour.. I mean it is their furni or coins that they have to use and yes by hosting events helps to attract new users daily/weekly/montly. But I am not blaming the Events Manager due to the lack of events here. I don't even blame the EO either as those who do make events regularly are doing their best to entertain everyone.

[Lewis]

Is it not possible to go out into non-fansite event rooms and raise awareness for Habbox events? Didn't @Lewis (http://www.habboxforum.com/member.php?u=70869); (oops wrong forum name) used to go into those rooms and tell the hosts about Habbox and how they could apply for events? I know Lewis kept bugging me (that's a good thing btw) with PMs and VMs about returning as well. I think odey just needs to keep pushing people all the time.

i reckon the events manager should be able to go into random event rooms and, if the host is doing a good job, offer them a trial there and then. if you haven't had anything much to do with fansites before, the idea of going through an application and having to wait around for a response might be quite daunting.

yeah lol

I also went through like 100s of CNB pages to message old staff, and I probably still have a list of like a hundred of them if odey wants to message them some more ;)

[FlyingJesus]

The amount of rules and protocols that we have in place ... is another reason why people are perhaps more reluctant to join.

This basically. Events are meant to be fun and the rules and regulations (especially about timing which is just stupid) suck all the fun out of them. Limiting an event to an hour slot in which anything from 20-40 minutes is a near empty room waiting for more participants and then finishing abruptly on or before the hour when the room finally has some people in it is stupid and there's no excuse for keeping time rules now that we have so few events on.

[Empired]

yeah lol

I also went through like 100s of CNB pages to message old staff, and I probably still have a list of like a hundred of them if odey wants to message them some more ;)
Take me off that damn list if you do :@
x

[Lewis]

This basically. Events are meant to be fun and the rules and regulations (especially about timing which is just stupid) suck all the fun out of them. Limiting an event to an hour slot in which anything from 20-40 minutes is a near empty room waiting for more participants and then finishing abruptly on or before the hour when the room finally has some people in it is stupid and there's no excuse for keeping time rules now that we have so few events on.

Unless Odey has changed it back, I changed the one hour slot rule slightly...

People are allowed to do overtime as much as they please as long as it's popular and stays popular enough--and were encouraged and rewarded for it to do so (alongside it counting towards their minimum depending how much overtime they did)! Plus a few more things were loosened up, too. There was more things to it, such as starting events earlier too, but I won't go in any detail :P.

Oh, and another thing, if an event that's being hosting is unpopular for quite a while, they were welcome to change the game to something else that may think might get more popular. I can't remember if I added that bit to the handbook, but it was something else. A wrong game type advertised that is full of people is better than a game type advertised correctly with no one in it!

Anyway, if those rules above or something similar/better aren't being done, it is a bit stupid!

[sex]

This basically. Events are meant to be fun and the rules and regulations (especially about timing which is just stupid) suck all the fun out of them. Limiting an event to an hour slot in which anything from 20-40 minutes is a near empty room waiting for more participants and then finishing abruptly on or before the hour when the room finally has some people in it is stupid and there's no excuse for keeping time rules now that we have so few events on.

i lost all motivation to host when i had an agm nagging at the events manager to warn me for letting someone i had just got to sign up the forum play rather than her because i move the barrier and they didn't get in fast enough lol. they wanted me warned for not kicking someone who was brb and instead i moved a barrier. kinda felt disheartened and i felt attacked over someone being petty and caring for themselves rather than the community lol

[!x!dude!x!2]

Why not just let any department host events.

[FlyingJesus]

Or just anyone who's willing since no-one in the entire universe cares about the CNB and there are plenty of people who don't mind doing the odd event but can't be bothered with all the staff nonsense

[Samantha]

i lost all motivation to host when i had an agm nagging at the events manager to warn me for letting someone i had just got to sign up the forum play rather than her because i move the barrier and they didn't get in fast enough lol. they wanted me warned for not kicking someone who was brb and instead i moved a barrier. kinda felt disheartened and i felt attacked over someone being petty and caring for themselves rather than the community lol

It shouldn't have been that you got told off for, I only brought that up, but I didn't take it further as it was minor.

You should have been informed about the members misbehaving in your event, not for moving a barrier :S.

[Rachel]

Why not just let any department host events.

Then Events team will lose its purpose...

[Gina]

If you don't have time to join the events team then what makes you think that others do? :p currently management and senior/head djs are able to help out by hosting events and the only person that I've noticed that has even bothered doing so is Gina. I will be hosting events during the next week for the World Cup tournament, as will a number of those in the help desk department, and I'm sure others from other departments will host some too.

The current problem not just for events but for all departments is outside advertisement. Hxss is a perfect example as it's something that has always relied on hype generated within the forum and habbox official rooms only. What we need to do is work out a way to get the word out from quite literally outside of the box.

A recruitment fair? What would that involve? Didn't the agency fair in habbo flop? What other advertisement would you suggest? A trial for the events team is very short, is it really something that puts people off so much that a fast track option is needed?

More themed events would be cool. The commonwealth games are coming up in the last week of July. There's the game show thin Yuxin; has been working on and off for months, there's the World Cup tournament next week. Even if we make thse the best that they can possibly be it doesn't mean that any users attracted will be retained. There's the forum and the help desk as community 'hangouts' that also need a bit of work.

More events can be arranged. The rest needs some proper thought behind it.


~~from phone
am not too sure how long til theyll be done :P now with my hand i cant do more than 1 thing like cos my ther hands in cast for 6 weekjs so obv wont be host without taking 10 mins to type HI WELCOME

[myles]

i tell them im more than happy 2 host events for them but they just aren't having it that is the reason why

[James]

The way I see it, other than what's already been said about lack of hosts, motivation, etc, is that if you go to an event such as HFFM or Th or whatever, 70% of the people there are already staff at them sites or members of their community. At least 10-15 (or more) people fromt he community go there so they instantly get their events on the top rooms, even if most of them aren't even playing.

It'd be ncie to get some people fromt he forum to turn up to events, even if they don't play, as there's only so much a host can do to get new people in from an empty room. But I've looked around recently and noticed that literally nobody reads CNB's for events these days so I don't see that happening anytime soon.

But that's the way I see it anyway.

[lemons]

viba is right

[FlyingJesus]

Then Events team will lose its purpose...

And as we all know it's more important to keep a department open and exclusive than to have their intended function realised

[Cassiieee]

If the events team is really low on staff why not boost their amount of events held a week to 4 as it gains more events through-out the week. I know some people don't have the time, but perhaps sticking it out there and seeing peoples views?

I resigned due to simply not having enough time and the events back then were pretty low. I would see about maybe putting it up another event until you gain some more members. This is just an idea. :)

[Matt]

If the events team is really low on staff why not boost their amount of events held a week to 4 as it gains more events through-out the week. I know some people don't have the time, but perhaps sticking it out there and seeing peoples views?

I resigned due to simply not having enough time and the events back then were pretty low. I would see about maybe putting it up another event until you gain some more members. This is just an idea:).

I'd say that raising the minimum to 4 Events a week has positive and negative impacts. The positive being more events hosted but the negative would be, is 4 too much? Many people resign as they don't have time to host 3 events, let alone 4. I just think the thought of people having to host 4 Events would be too much as it seems quite a few people already struggle with 3. Could be trialed though to see how it goes.

The purpose of Community Notice Boards, although they're time consuming and hard to post if you're not familiar with a forum, help management prove you were online to host your event. I know trialists often struggle to post their CNB's to begin with unless they've had previous experience but it really does help if there's a question mark over whether or not the host turned up or not (especially if a Senior + isn't online, it does help significantly). If hosting were to be opened up to any staff who are wanting to host, as they wouldn't fall under the Events Department, they wouldn't have to post a CNB, therefore taking that requirement away.

The option of extending Events is still there however has kinda faded out, mainly to do with lack of staff and lack of people attending events. The part about changing your Event to something different isn't in the Handbook however I reckon it could work. I guess it would be harder for us to check if a host has changed their event or not, unless they posted it somewhere letting us know (although I doubt it really matters). That's a possibility.

[Yawn]

no1 wants to host
no1 wants to attend

too bad

[Kyle]

look into the motivation to attend events at other fansites and mimic it.

[scottish]

decent prizes perhaps

[lemons]

the prizes are decent

[!x!dude!x!2]

Then Events team will lose its purpose...

I'm pretty sure if Events and Hxl teamed up there would be lots of events going on.

[lRhyss]

Can I just add that Viba gives the best events prizes... Thanks for the gold bar!

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