Staff name changes

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Originally Posted by xxMATTGxx

Nope, they haven't had to for a while now.

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Ah cool, I might apply now :P

Having to change my name did make me reluctant to apply to that position. I'm sure there's a lot of other people who are the same; not wanting to apply for a job because they don't want to change their name.

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Originally Posted by Mr-Trainor

I assume your name would be what ever account is your main account; the one you use most.

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That's assuming that I don't treat the as both 2 mains used as much as each other which i've done a few times before

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Originally Posted by Catzsy

I think the original reason for having the names the same was that they were clearly identifiable as being staff on the forum and this could be checked. It would be very confusing for everyone including management and supervising staff as names could be changed on habbo on a regular basis and no-one would know who was who. The other reason was that anybody could claim to be Habbox staff and use this to scam including the occasional 'rogue' member of staff without being easily identified. Kyle, is their any combination of Kyle available?

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This basically. Recently there have been numerous cases of non-staff members holding giveaways/events (that don't actually give out prizes). This is generally okay as it's easilynoticeableto anyone in the community that they aren't EOs because they're not in the staff list. Conversely there have been cases where trialist event organisers have been accused of holding fake hx events because they're new and not well known to the wider community where it's been easily checked via the staff list/events listthat it is anactual genuine EO/event.

In my opinion, the community departments should have their names the same as their forum names (including the comps dept, no idea why this was changed or when lol hope it wasn't when I was manager or I'd have missed that memo) because to do their job most effectively they should be using Habbo. That does not necessarily mean that it's needed per se (forexample comps staff)but it is definitely helpful to increase your activity within the Habbo community. Using the comps example as it's one I'm most familiar with butit was clear to me during management that those withhigher entries were those who had a wider participation on Habbo andif the latter slipped (they moved ontoother games, didn't play habbo so much for whatever reason)so did the entries. I do not seewhy this principle can not be extended to rare values (wider participation with traders) or any other community department.

I find it stupid having to have matching names just because of your job here.

Why don't you just have something in your usertitle clearly stating your Habbo username. :)

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Originally Posted by McDonalds

I find it stupid having to have matching names just because of your job here.

Why don't you just have something in your usertitle clearly stating your Habbo username. :)

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Or, add "Habbo Name" in here;
http://www.habboxforum.com/showgroups.phpS

So when people check the staff list they can find the habbo names just as fast as the usernames

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Originally Posted by McDonalds

I find it stupid having to have matching names just because of your job here.

Why don't you just have something in your usertitle clearly stating your Habbo username. :)

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Exactly what I was about to say.
If you have your habbo username in the 'About Me' section, where people can see it in posts, or in your usertitle or signature, I don't really see the problem.
If this rule wasn't in place, I would've signed up to the forum with a more decenter name.. xD

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Originally Posted by -toxicflames

Exactly what I was about to say.
If you have your habbo username in the 'About Me' section, where people can see it in posts, or in your usertitle or signature, I don't really see the problem.
If this rule wasn't in place, I would've signed up to the forum with a more decenter name.. xD

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You can sign up to the forum with any available name, it doesn't have to be your Habbo name. It gets changed to your Habbo name if it isn't already when you join one of the community based departments.

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Originally Posted by xxMATTGxx

You can sign up to the forum with any available name, it doesn't have to be your Habbo name. It gets changed to your Habbo name if it isn't already when you join one of the community based departments.

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Yes, I know.

What I meant was - I knew the rule was community staff have to have the same username as on habbo.
I knew I was going to apply for Competitions and HxHD, so I spared them the trouble of changing it.

:3

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Originally Posted by -toxicflames

Yes, I know.

What I meant was - I knew the rule was community staff have to have the same username as on habbo.
I knew I was going to apply for Competitions and HxHD, so I spared them the trouble of changing it.

:3

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Get yourself some VIP and get it changed then! ;)

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Originally Posted by Mathew

Get yourself some VIP and get it changed then! ;)

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Pfft, fine then. xDD