Welcome Committee

I think its fair to say its failed. People said it will fail, Oli didn't listen but did try his best to keep it alive. It was slightly active when he was manager as he regularly posted but even since he resigned, new forum management have neglected it and its dead.

I mean the current forum management haven't even bothered updating the threads in there and only one person has made a thread in the New members forum this month.

Its useless and just isn't working and new members aren't posting there and those who do usually never reply back to our replies.

You always moan about "too many forums, we can't have any more", well get rid of WC and it will get rid of two forums.

Yeah to be honest I actually forgot they were there. What are they currently up to? I think they need some promoting so new people know they are there. Maybe a banner on habbox.com or their own tab on the forum?

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Originally Posted by Dilusionate

Yeah to be honest I actually forgot they were there. What are they currently up to? I think they need some promoting so new people know they are there. Maybe a banner on habbox.com or their own tab on the forum?

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Its the very top forum for new members yet they don't post in them. We do nothing but reply to new members threads, and currently there has only been on this month ...

Probably just needs a bit of a kick or something to get it active again, but in theory I like the whole idea of it.

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Originally Posted by Cosmic

Probably just needs a bit of a kick or something to get it active again, but in theory I like the whole idea of it.

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New members just don't reply back. I doubt they even check back.

As I am sure you can appreciate when someone newly comes into Management, especially in regard to the Forum, things can be quite overwhelming and there is an awful lot to do in order to ensure that you are on top of everything. On top of that, James recently lost his Assistant and has been asked to code a Halloween skin. Not forgetting he has A Levels to focus on, he's awfully busy and as such the Welcome Committee (which was supposed to run independently after its creation) was not neglected but left to manage itself as was the original plan.

Clearly, self management was not successful and as such myself and James recently discussed methods to change it and reform it to make it more effective in its mandate. The committee has great potential and has shown it can work in the past, but of course this requires certain changes we aim to bring into effect in the very near future.

In order to improve this we aim to appoint a chairman of the committee who will centre a team around him / her and have them manage it, independently. We hope this direction will lead members of the committee in the right direction. We will also be looking at ensuring appropriate people are in the position of committee members. In addition to this, we aim to maximise exposure of the new members forums to... new members. For example adding a link into the Welcome PM, and having members of the committee spot and talk to new members through PMs / VMs. We hope for them to become "new member ambassadors" rather than just people who reply to a couple of threads in a forum.

@ Dilusionate, the reason you will have forgotten is mainly because we focus their exposure to new members.

While it's (obviously) done more than the council ever did either time its montrous form was spliced together, I can't say I've noticed much going on with the welcoming committee, and even if it is meant to be aimed at new members specifically I don't see how that will help them integrate with the main forum. I'm sure this isn't the fault of the members or even of management (after all, how much managing does saying hello take?) but as Saurav's said, new people just don't care, which somewhat dampens the use of such a team. Can't see how adding a chairman would be any different to when a couple of us were appointed leaders of the council - that is to say, nothing changed except I got to look extra cool for a couple of weeks

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Originally Posted by Nixt

As I am sure you can appreciate when someone newly comes into Management, especially in regard to the Forum, things can be quite overwhelming and there is an awful lot to do in order to ensure that you are on top of everything. On top of that, James recently lost his Assistant and has been asked to code a Halloween skin. Not forgetting he has A Levels to focus on, he's awfully busy and as such the Welcome Committee (which was supposed to run independently after its creation) was not neglected but left to manage itself as was the original plan.

Clearly, self management was not successful and as such myself and James recently discussed methods to change it and reform it to make it more effective in its mandate. The committee has great potential and has shown it can work in the past, but of course this requires certain changes we aim to bring into effect in the very near future.

In order to improve this we aim to appoint a chairman of the committee who will centre a team around him / her and have them manage it, independently. We hope this direction will lead members of the committee in the right direction. We will also be looking at ensuring appropriate people are in the position of committee members. In addition to this, we aim to maximise exposure of the new members forums to... new members. For example adding a link into the Welcome PM, and having members of the committee spot and talk to new members through PMs / VMs. We hope for them to become "new member ambassadors" rather than just people who reply to a couple of threads in a forum.

@ Dilusionate, the reason you will have forgotten is mainly because we focus their exposure to new members.

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Thats all good but out of the 8 people, I think only 2 sent in the votes and no one bothered replying to my post.

Anyway, which committee has worked in the past as I was under the impression they have all failed...

If i was new to the forum and someone was like "Hello, how are you. Hope you enjoy the forum. Don't forget.. blah blah blah" i would be annoyed and be like :S:S and probs leave the forum cause i would be pissed off the moment i joined. I think the committee might of been nice for a little while but it's flopped like many "implemented ideas" i think you need to get the forums opinion. maybe a poll or something.

Is it the forum management who run the committee?

Maybe one of the committee should be put as 'leader' to run it, kinda like a department manager.