I've run lotteries and other competitions on the forum, and am yet to hear complaints about these!Quote:
Originally Posted by lawrawrrr
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I've run lotteries and other competitions on the forum, and am yet to hear complaints about these!Quote:
Originally Posted by lawrawrrr
The thing is we DID NOT take over someone else's slot, there was no event on, 4 people in the help desk and we were bored. That is the reason we hosted there was NO stealing users from other events at the time because there was none booked for the entire day. Obviously if the event before yours is full, if it ends (which is what i assume the host wanted, since he asked for people to go to his event and then complained habbox was in subos room name) you except everyone to go to yours because thats what happens, people go from one Habbox event to the other and this person probably though he has an easy job at filling his room and wouldn't have to make the effort since we basically did it already...Quote:
Originally Posted by lawrawrrr
Because my job as competitions staff is to run the official competitions in the set method that there is; if I was to run an incredibly inappropriate competition that was badly written then it would reflect badly on the Competitions department as people MIGHT think it was official just because I am comps staffQuote:
Originally Posted by Kardan
In that case, I agree, but only in certain circumstances; hosting 2 boring events at the same time will just make noone turn up to either. It should only be the case for long-running games or auto games.
Lotteries and comps for VIP are a bit different, they're the only ones to come to mind, and you're not official comps staff or anything and there's no way they could be construed as being officialQuote:
Originally Posted by Marketing
OK, i seen you stated we were hosting first, do you really just expect us to end it then because someone from Habbox decides to host? Even though, after their event was booked and subo got told to remove habbox from tags & room name her room stayed popular for over 3 more hours?!?!? it makes no sense at all, but i can guarantee those 50 people in her room would NOT have gone to habbox events lol
Missed opportunities by Habbox there then - popular room, with less Habbox advertisements. Smart move lolQuote:
Originally Posted by subo
The difference being that the room is not owned by a member of staff, and whilst I agree the event is popular and amazing, from a community point of view it gives the impression that subo is events staff hosting on behalf of habbox etc.
Most people tend to search Habbox on the navigator to find what event is going on, and several members in the official event found it unfair that their room was not being noticed, despite lots of attempts at advertising etc.
In the past whenever a non member of Habbox staff has tried hosting an event in the Habbox name and its not an official Habbox room then they've been asked to remove the Habbox part.
The current policy in events is that only one event can be hosted at a time, so the fact that there were Habbox staff (including events staff) in the strangers game, whilst a trialist was struggling to populate his room in the official event seemed a little unfair.
I didn't make that policy, its just there, and we don't allow clashes etc. From those who don't know's point of view subo is representing Habbox, and personally I would love it if she became Habbox staff so it could become official all the time etc, not just when a Habbox host is hosting in there etc.
Even if she was staff though, we've always discouraged multiple events at the same time, and im pretty sure most places have the same policy, due to how hard it is anyway to get a full room.
You're right in that events generally need to be more varied and interesting (whilst keeping some of the old favourites of course), but we do need to keep things fair and if an event isn't advertised on our site, forum etc, but is treated like a habbox event on the client, people do become confused as to whats going on.
Why didn't you book it so it could have been added to the calendar/panel and counted towards your minimum?Quote:
The thing is we DID NOT take over someone else's slot, there was no event on, 4 people in the help desk and we were bored. That is the reason we hosted there was NO stealing users from other events at the time because there was none booked for the entire day. Obviously if the event before yours is full, if it ends (which is what i assume the host wanted, since he asked for people to go to his event and then complained habbox was in subos room name) you except everyone to go to yours because thats what happens, people go from one Habbox event to the other and this person probably though he has an easy job at filling his room and wouldn't have to make the effort since we basically did it already...
I'm sorry if I've offended anyone, but Alex agreed with me that the correct action was taken, and its just the policy really, it wasn't beacause I was trying to be a kiljoy. Perhaps it is something we need to look into, perhaps non members of staff should be allowed to host events whenever they want using habbox in the name, but I think it needs to be clear to everyone regardless.
Yeah I realise that now, I didn't know that before and I never tried to judge you for that, I was purely running on hypotheticals!! Management have no authority to ask a non-staff member to remove advertising from any room or group unless it's trying to be official when they haven't condoned it. Which I don't know if happened or not!Quote:
Originally Posted by Comity
So if we take your point of a badly run competition and try and translate that to the events department... How can Comity and co. possibly host worse events then what we already have?Quote:
Originally Posted by lawrawrrr
And, you're telling me, if you wanted to host anything that gave a prize on the forum, you would be reprimanded by staff?
And secondly, please do tell me how hosting 2 events at the time will make 0 people attend either event. I really don't understand the logic behind that at all.
"Oh no, there's two events! Best not go to either!"
"Oh no, there's two threads on the forum, best not reply to either!"
"Oh no, there's two buses coming along at once, best not get on either!"
Seems flawed.
I've done things for a lot more than VIP before, which almost certainly received more entries than Habbox competitions - I did the draw on Habbo for one, which filled a 50 person room which advertised Habbox throughout. The fact I wasn't staff didn't matter, as it really promoted Habbox and gave a positive image. Other users have done similar things - and I certainly wouldn't have appreciated it had I been told to remove Habbox from the room name.Quote:
Originally Posted by lawrawrrr
I was under the impression that Habbox events staff are supposed to be promoting Habbox, not themselves. Throwing away a constant stream of people in a 50-max room for 3 hours because it's "unfair" on someone whose event isn't fun enough to get 5 is ludicrous.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bolt660
Not that hard at all, as was proved today by Graham and MylesQuote:
Originally Posted by Bolt660
Then the simple solution is to allow EOs to host whenever they like and simply give the rule that a CNB must be posted for every hour that they host it, no matter who else is hosting at the same time. Habbo's population is limited, certainly, but there are far more people online at any one time than a single event could ever holdQuote:
Originally Posted by Bolt660