Staff - Usernames

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Originally Posted by Paige.

hmm never really understood why staff in departments like competitions have to have their forum name the same as their habbo name as it doesn't require any habbo interaction, like the forum moderation team competitions is based on the forum
i only understand why departments like events and hxhd have to

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Wrong. Your entries would increase tenfold if you got on Habbo and started interacting with people. They'd say 'hey it's paige., I know her from Habbo, I like her, she's nice' rather than 'who the hell is that?'
We have the rule in place because we want newbies to know who we are without them having to ask us and naturally this goes for every community department. It's just matching a name to their Habbo.

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Originally Posted by Samanfa

That's usually rare and only occurs when people have wanted/short names etc. usually though if that's the case the older user, the one who had it previously, if they're not active it will be changed.

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I think you missread my post. I meant that in Habbo, the Habbox username that she is currently using, is taken, which is really common to happen.

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Originally Posted by Inseriousity.

Wrong. Your entries would increase tenfold if you got on Habbo and started interacting with people. They'd say 'hey it's paige., I know her from Habbo, I like her, she's nice' rather than 'who the hell is that?'
We have the rule in place because we want newbies to know who we are without them having to ask us and naturally this goes for every community department. It's just matching a name to their Habbo.

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hmm yeah i don't hang around in habbox rooms as much as i used to and i don't interact much either, i just go on habbo to trade and make things, i've never thought about it like that tbh. see nobody has never explained that to me before, everyone i have asked is just like i don't know why we have to have our forum and habbo names the same. i understand that about the newbies because if they see our habbo name on the forum and they've seen us around habbo before they would feel a greater connection between the forum and habbo which is kinda the idea since it's a habbo fansite.

The username field on the profile is more difficult to make sure it's up to date too. I know a lot of people who have out-of-date names in their username field.

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Originally Posted by SyrupyMonkey

The username field on the profile is more difficult to make sure it's up to date too. I know a lot of people who have out-of-date names in their username field.

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But couldn't that actually be easily controlled by Department managers and just other staff (mainly those in the same department) since you see their posts so many times? (E.g.: Spam threads).

Definitely one of the disadvantages for those who signed up for Habbo many years ago while younger and choose a silly name and then got chosen for Habbox Staff.

I don't see why you can't have non-Habbo names, given the 'Habbo Name' option in the post bit.

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Originally Posted by Paige.

hmm yeah i don't hang around in habbox rooms as much as i used to and i don't interact much either, i just go on habbo to trade and make things, i've never thought about it like that tbh. see nobody has never explained that to me before, everyone i have asked is just like i don't know why we have to have our forum and habbo names the same. i understand that about the newbies because if they see our habbo name on the forum and they've seen us around habbo before they would feel a greater connection between the forum and habbo which is kinda the idea since it's a habbo fansite.

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Don't worry, 25 months in the department and I didn't know either :P.

Well there should be a thread in each department with a users user name and their habbo name so you can look in the thread and find them that way and if they have a user name change, it should get updated.

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Originally Posted by Samanfa

If we needed to search someone, be it management or anyone we couldn't find them as quick if they didn't have their Habbo name whilst in a community department - it's likewise in events and the Help Desk, if they have different names it would be more difficult to find them, plus, really, if you're applying to be a part of a community department you should be playing Habbo anyway therefore it shouldn't matter.

The only one really that it doesn't matter as much is competitions apart from the management as normal staff don't need to interact with competition entrants. Beforehand, it was spoken about whether Rare Values was needed for it, but due to the recent addition of the Habbox Trade Team it is.

Basically, it's just a simpler way of running things, that way managers don't have to track name changes as much - they have to request them anyway and if they wanted to change their name a lot it also wouldn't work.

If they're that bothered they could also make a new account and use that name and the account if the other is embarrassing. The Help Desk and Events are the main ones that need Habbo names, HabboxLive and Rare Values perhaps not as much and Competitions don't really need them.

The content ones, News, Forum, Graphics and Content aren't really needed as they're mainly just Forum or Habbox.com based and many don't play Habbo now.

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Originally Posted by Emily

After reading kyle's thread, did Chippiewill ever come up with that supposed vB script?

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Matt lied, it's a core vBulletin feature.