I was thinking saurav and Adam but Adam never really posted that much anyway
don't think jake would bother but mayb
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I was thinking saurav and Adam but Adam never really posted that much anyway
don't think jake would bother but mayb
when i look around the forum, i very rarely see new members posting. its usually all names that i recognise either from a long time ago like myself, and most of us have the same x amount of forums that we like to post in and stuff.
i think habbox needs to find a way to get more members to join, but having said that is habbo even as popular as it used to be? these days most kids have blackberrys and stuff, they dont really need habbo to chat to their buddies
I think its inevitable with what I would call a downfall of users playing Habbo.
mfw when a member of management admits members are banned unfairly. :OQuote:
Originally Posted by xxMATTGxx
nah man really you get same old people on this forum, i dunno why people complain, sure it's nice to have some new members but its not the end of the world. reason people dont post so much anymore is that if you consider the age of some members right now, a lot of them are considering college/a-levels, like people did before, and people will soon after. forum aint gonna die, it just goes through phases innit.
The average age of active users is increasing not only because of that terrible phenomenon which makes Tara get even more wrinkly but also because for years now there has been bugger all by way of new users becoming properly active compared to how it used to be, and this is something that still for some reason doesn't get addressed. I'm not a fan of the idea of allowing swearing as it's simply not something that's necessary really, but something definitely does need to change in order to make the place more accessible to a range of new users, rather than the usual claim that the way forward is even more events on Habbo where the same clique of already active members attends and overruns the entire thingQuote:
Originally Posted by -:Undertaker:-
Absolutely agree, the idea of staff spam and staff chat forums does nothing to help and everything to hurt. Dissuading your staff to interact with users is not the greatest plan for a forum, yet here it appears to be common practice.Quote:
Originally Posted by Richie
It's not often that I agree with Richie but his post here yesterday actually makes sense (crikey) and requires acting on. How often in these such threads do staff attempt to blame a clique system in spam which hasn't even existed since 2008 while they not only allow but promote and take part in the segregation of staff and user activity? If staff are that highly strung and/or socially incompetant that they can't possibly bring themselves to post without having their own hidden section for it, I think there's something quite wrong with the selection process in terms of hiring people to work for a community.Quote:
Originally Posted by Richie
I agree. There always used to be a bit of banter going on, back in the day. It seems dead now.
apparently i'm the only one in management who believes staff spam should be closed (even if temporarily to increase posting in the main forums). i'm frankly so worn out with the reasoning i'm seeing for keeping them open that i concede defeat.
not hapz.
Apparently the aggressive nature of one spam regular is the definition of clique activity and cause for staff to not post anywhere other than their own spam section - not even just staying out of regular spam, but literally not posting outside the staff area at all.
I seriously worry about how some people remember to breathe.
Pops in quickly...HI!
The decrease in forum activity stems from management (not just the current management) being far too strict. Habbox got away with it in the past as Habbo was thriving and the rare values reeled in a large amount of new members. With Habbo in decline, as well as the lack of support for fansites whilst combined with the rare values being made obsolete, habbox was always going to suffer in terms of activity.
It is quite obvious that we have an ageing population here which means we need to bring in the next generation, which doesn’t seem to be happening, this is why management need to focus on maintaining the current user base otherwise gradually more and more members will leave as they get fed up with the rules, move on to university, or get a job. As other have said, last year the primary member age was 16-17, which is most likely going to be 17-18 now. It puts people off coming on here, a place they’re supposed to enjoy coming to, when they get hounded with warning pm’s, infractions and whatever else. Even Habbo saw sense and implemented an opt out filtering option; I can’t work out why Habbox didn’t follow in its footsteps.
I don’t really know what else to say… But something needs to be done soon, however the wiki does look promising...
Tl;dr?
Habbox needs to focus equally on maintaining its current user base whilst also trying to attract new members because at the moment, it seems rather one-sided in the sense that Habbox doesn’t seem to cater for its older members. Probably because general management are only focusing on bringing in the next generation (doesn’t seem to be working), whilst neglecting the older, dedicated members.
^&*~fades back into the mist
Absolutely cannot bring myself to agree with this. For all its faults, the management of Habbox at the moment is not strict - realistically it's a damaging opposite. The level of moderation for us lay people is about right at the moment (I've had a couple of dodgy edits on supposed "pointless" posts which were actually straightforward responses to the thread, but nothing too sinister) but the way in which staff are treated is so lax that things do have a tendency to fall apart.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Don
*Primary age of the very small number of members who responded to the pollQuote:
Originally Posted by The Don
I really don't understand this. You don't get "hounded" with warnings and infractions unless you're breaking the rules, never have done. I'm very outspoken and have strong views on things and people which I express often, yet here I am with no infractions and only a single zero-point warning from over a month ago, and it's not like I'm friends with management or anything so it's not that there's any favouritism going on.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Don
Other than not allowing swearing (OMG WHATEVER WILL WE DO FOR CONVERSATION?!) I can't see anything that's directly affecting the way in which older members post, and since we've never been allowed to it's not like we miss being able to do so. What bonuses would you like for older members? It's not a case of anyone being unwilling, it's simply that there is nothing that can be done for an age group who really doesn't want anythingQuote:
Originally Posted by The Don