Lack Of Events

Hello!

I don't want to jump on the bandwagon of "YEH LETS JUST SLATE EVENTS" but I am wondering why there are just next to no events even when...

• There are 17 staff supposed to be doing 3 per week.
• People are off on school holidays.
• The XMAS Bonanza is going on.

I understand people have lives and won't be online on Christmas Day and stuff but surely only 7 odd events for the next week is a bit, well, poor.

I don't think sat here making a massive moan about it is going to change something, constructive feedback will though. I just don't get why even with a new manager, a fresh new (returning) senior and a very experienced senior with new ideas and such, and yet there is still the same old lack of events.

I don't even know if it is just the department struggles at Habbox, regardless of who is manager, but other fansites seem to be doing okay.

I mean, look at HFFM... http://www.hffm.co.uk/events-timetable

Hopefully this thread can be here for people to post ideas and suggestions and not just moan about the manager again. That gets no where.

Manager was busy playing mole / sitting in hxhd

I thought people said last time it was the staff not the manager. I probably heard wrong so dont kill me

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Originally Posted by Nick

I thought people said last time it was the staff not the manager. I probably heard wrong so dont kill me

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We had this issue in HxL, the managers introduced things to inspire people to do shows - surely something similar could be done in events?

Who is the manager lol?

And eww events there all dull and boring xoxo

Where you getting 7 from. I use habbox.com/events and the only event there is the saturday night quiz! If there's 7 someone needs to update that.

There've been lots of ideas posted in the feedback forum for events. Whether you agree with them/think they'll do much good is an entirely different matter. If rumours I've heard are true then I'd suggest Hayden might have a little more success if his team didn't think the power was going to his head with his public mouthing off and ********. I completely changed the competitions department from a 9-comps-a-month to a 42-comps-a-month department and I would not have been able to do it if it weren't for the team driving it forward so think about that before you get too far up your own arse and we might see a similar revolution forward for the events department too.

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Originally Posted by Inseriousity.

Where you getting 7 from. I use habbox.com/events and the only event there is the saturday night quiz! If there's 7 someone needs to update that.

There've been lots of ideas posted in the feedback forum for events. Whether you agree with them/think they'll do much good is an entirely different matter. If rumours I've heard are true then I'd suggest Hayden might have a little more success if his team didn't think the power was going to his head with his public mouthing off and ********. I completely changed the competitions department from a 9-comps-a-month to a 42-comps-a-month department and I would not have been able to do it if it weren't for the team driving it forward so think about that before you get too far up your own arse and we might see a similar revolution forward for the events department too.

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5 according to the calendar on here; http://www.habboxforum.com/calendar....13/21/December

Especially at a time when ANY HABBOX STAFF MEMBER can host events, zero events from the events department, let alone other staff, is a very poor effort and looks very bad.

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Originally Posted by Inseriousity.

Where you getting 7 from. I use habbox.com/events and the only event there is the saturday night quiz! If there's 7 someone needs to update that.

There've been lots of ideas posted in the feedback forum for events. Whether you agree with them/think they'll do much good is an entirely different matter. If rumours I've heard are true then I'd suggest Hayden might have a little more success if his team didn't think the power was going to his head with his public mouthing off and ********. I completely changed the competitions department from a 9-comps-a-month to a 42-comps-a-month department and I would not have been able to do it if it weren't for the team driving it forward so think about that before you get too far up your own arse and we might see a similar revolution forward for the events department too.

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My bad, 6 - http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/7382/t28n.png (https://habbox.com/#!/events/thismonth)

plus cant any staff host an event too?

You can tell when someone wants to be in power rather than wanting to change thing glad I wasn't the only one to notice / say this lol

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Originally Posted by !x!dude!x!2

plus cant any staff host an event too?

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During this XMAS Bonanza thing that so far the only departments I've seen do anything are Forum, Content and HxL, yes.

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Originally Posted by Payasam

5 according to the calendar on here; http://www.habboxforum.com/calendar....13/21/December

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That's today's, he said 7 for the next week but on the monthly calendar it doesn't look like there are any! I know that most EOs tend to book last minute but not that bad so I'll assume it just slipped through the net!

edit: oh you were counting today. my week starts on monday so just assumed you meant then. okay I see. :D

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Originally Posted by Calum0812

During this XMAS Bonanza thing that so far the only departments I've seen do anything are Forum, Content and HxL, yes.

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how many staff do we have in total... shame you would think more would host :S

why doesnt MATT have something in the help desk like during HxSS

I mean, Elliot (purfles) hosted more than triple the minimum just to satisfy the community; when I have previously asked some events members if they would like to host anything for the community, not like they're doing anything, sitting in the HxHD chatting to friends!
From when I joined Habbox the two departments that struck me the most with fluctuations in members is, HabboxLive and HabboxEvents.
I do agree though, something needs to be done about the events, they're not always being hosted.
For instance myself, I join the department and host possibly 3 events then leave, I don't want to be there all the time! This is why there should be some sort of system letting ex staff members join as a "Guest host" which by their minimums should be 3 events per month or something just so there are still events but inclines more activity throughout the department and so the department doesn't slip: even more than it needs to.

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Originally Posted by Calum0812

During this XMAS Bonanza thing that so far the only departments I've seen do anything are Forum, Content and HxL, yes.

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all of them departments u just so happen to be in lol

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Originally Posted by Calum0812

During this XMAS Bonanza thing that so far the only departments I've seen do anything are Forum, Content and HxL, yes.

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all of them departments u just so happen to be in lol

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Originally Posted by Skandair

all of them departments u just so happen to be in lol

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all of them departments u just so happen to be in lol

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Graphics hasn't done anything, not just sticking up for the departments I'm in :P
If there are other departments that have done stuff I apologise but I can't think of any right now.
Off to bed, don't give me too many notifications folks :(

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Originally Posted by Calum0812

During this XMAS Bonanza thing that so far the only departments I've seen do anything are Forum, Content and HxL, yes.

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Originally Posted by !x!dude!x!2

how many staff do we have in total... shame you would think more would host :S

why doesnt MATT have something in the help desk like during HxSS

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To be fair, you have to understand that you can't be relying on all Habbox staff to be doing events. They already have their roles in other departments, and hosting events is not something they have to do unlike actually being events staff. Events from other departments should really just be to fill in gaps, surely :P.

Sorry guys I've been really busy irl so Ive only hosted like 10ish events this week. Imma try and host most of 2nite if i can manage to stay up and tmmr afternoon

I was going to post something similar to this thread OP but thought I would get backlash and it's just because I am in the wrong timezone but I agree, I wish there was more events and I am not sure why there isn't.

The fact that event hosting is now open to all Staff members at habbox I think it's wrong that you're slamming the 17 or so events staff. At this moment in time anyone can host an event that is a staff member so surely this thread is having a dig at all staff and not just events. Tbh you should host an event Calum and host it on behalf of a number of different departments... :)

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Originally Posted by Dragga

Sorry guys I've been really busy irl so Ive only hosted like 10ish events this week. Imma try and host most of 2nite if i can manage to stay up and tmmr afternoon

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Loving the use of the word only here. 10 is bloody good! I seem to miss your events, will try and get down to one or two over the holidays :)

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Originally Posted by Daltron

I was going to post something similar to this thread OP but thought I would get backlash and it's just because I am in the wrong timezone but I agree, I wish there was more events and I am not sure why there isn't.

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As @lawrawrrr; knows, I was a bit undecided whether to post a thread but I thought it would be important after the amount of crap @Smurfed-; got and evidentially, it wasn't his fault. The department needs more than just a new manager to change things. I think timezone shouldn't matter as much anymore. HabboxLive used to be dead after 11pm now we have coverage through the night, building up international staff isn't easy but it is possible.

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Originally Posted by Mr-Trainor

To be fair, you have to understand that you can't be relying on all Habbox staff to be doing events. They already have their roles in other departments, and hosting events is not something they have to do unlike actually being events staff. Events from other departments should really just be to fill in gaps, surely :P.

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I agree with this but the reason I mentioned it in my OP was that you would think there would be more events, given everyone has the opportunity to host them.

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Originally Posted by mdport.

The fact that event hosting is now open to all Staff members at habbox I think it's wrong that you're slamming the 17 or so events staff. At this moment in time anyone can host an event that is a staff member so surely this thread is having a dig at all staff and not just events. Tbh you should host an event Calum and host it on behalf of a number of different departments... :)

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I see where you're coming from but as Mr-Trainor said, it's not down to other staff because if they wanted to host events, they'd probably be EOs. I'm all for allowing people to host events because there will be some people who host one or two events during the bonanza and never again, therefore the EO role wouldn't suit them. I made it SOOOOO clear in my OP that I don't want to slam anyone for what they're doing, I just think there needs to be some new ways thought of to encourage people to host. If you have some people like Elliot and Tyler (that Dragga's name, right?) hosting 10 odd events a week, where are the other staff? I would host an on client event but at the moment I am planning for the Christmas Karaoke which is involved in the Christmas Bonanza. I do my best to muck in with everything but sometimes it isn't possible :P

To be quite frank, I do think the fact that Christmas is in three days means that many people are spending time with friends, family and shopping for presents etc and you did mention that, and I couldn't agree more. We currently have a staff challenge where our Eo's can win themselves prizes for hosting and in my opinion, we couldn't do much else to encourage more events to be hosted, especially this close to Christmas. Also, a number of the hosts host way more than what is expected of them but tend to do it all in one clump which means we are left with days where no events are hosted.Also taking into account the fact many people, and i admit to doing this myself, book their event on the day of hosting it and perhaps even a few hours before hand.

I'm sure the calendar will have more events appearing on it as the week progresses as staff are still required to meet their minimums.

Wait who books events more than like a day in advance..? I know I've been complaining past few days because of the amount of events leeching people from the hxhd so there's definitely been events going on I just dont see why people would book further into next week when they probably wont even know what they'd be doing. Also slating Hayden after he's only just gotten shoved into full management and having the large job of pulling together all the pieces for events advent calendar dumped on him is a bit unfair. I know he's attempted to make some small changes in the dept removal of things etc and hasn't had the greatest response from the staff, he's not in it just for the power he does genuinely care about the department although yes he can be a bit mouthy at times.
As for introducing a guest eo position what's the point? 3 events a month you're suggesting I'm sure the removal of guest dj's shows how this may end up.

oh and ps hxhd are doing a little something for the christmas bonanza calum if you want to look at cnb where things are being located x

Oh and there are 7 people officially posted away at the moment. Not using that as an excuse but that's quite a big chunk of the department that are not active.

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Originally Posted by mdport.

Oh and there are 7 people officially posted away at the moment. Not using that as an excuse but that's quite a big chunk of the department that are not active.

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It's sad :(. I know its Christmas and people want to spend time with their families and so on. It just seems to be the same people hosting over and over again and it just gets boring after a while. I think like i previously in a other feedback thread there should be a Guest Events Organiser role and have a perhaps 1 event a week either that or 3 events a month. That way people who have been ex senior+ events organiser can host events. Which means more events and it makes the events department look better.

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Originally Posted by Sloths

oh and ps hxhd are doing a little something for the christmas bonanza calum if you want to look at cnb where things are being located x

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subtly done x

I think the amount of events this week is pretty poor but it's not something new. Seeing as Hayden has only just been appointed manager I agree with Sofi that it's not fair to say he's doing nothing. Getting used to the role and learning what's what and how to do things takes time, especially with a big department like events. Also, is it not possible to raise the minimum number of events done each week for EOs? It's 3 a week isn't it? Which is pathetic... I understand that it can be hard to fund prizes but that shouldn't really be an excuse for not doing events as I should hope they have some kind of prize lending system for the poorer EOs to use.

Plus we really can't blame all of this on the other departments just because they're allowed to host as well. If we look at the bigger picture, there are always hardly any events. Like someone said (I think it was Sofi), other departments have been given the choice to host but it's definitely not their job. The idea is to advertise our own departments, not cover up the laziness (I'm sorry, but that's what it comes down to) of the events department.

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Originally Posted by Despect

It's sad :(. I know its Christmas and people want to spend time with their families and so on. It just seems to be the same people hosting over and over again and it just gets boring after a while. I think like i previously in a other feedback thread there should be a Guest Events Organiser role and have a perhaps 1 event a week either that or 3 events a month. That way people who have been ex senior+ events organiser can host events. Which means more events and it makes the events department look better.

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The question is, would ex- seniors/events staff want to host events? And that's like making them an events host but changing the requirements just for them (instead of meeting the normal minimums set for all other staff)

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Originally Posted by mdport.

The question is, would ex- seniors/events staff want to host events? And that's like making them an events host but changing the requirements just for them (instead of meeting the normal minimums set for all other staff)

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We'll never know till you offer guest roles to people and its not making them events hosts at all because i think you'd rather have people who are experienced and know what they are doing than no events at all, lets face it the amount of events currently booked is poor and getting guest events to do events to fill up the calendar surely thats a good thing? :P

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Originally Posted by Despect

We'll never know till you offer guest roles to people and its not making them events hosts at all because i think you'd rather have people who are experienced and know what they are doing than no events at all, lets face it the amount of events currently booked is poor and getting guest events to do events to fill up the calendar surely thats a good thing? :P

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I can't see introducing guest hosts doing much at all. I think we'd get a maximum of 4 maybe which is still only an added 4 hours a week. It's not like they have anything to lose by letting some guest hosts in, though, so they may as well give it a go.

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Originally Posted by Empired

I can't see introducing guest hosts doing much at all. I think we'd get a maximum of 4 maybe which is still only an added 4 hours a week. It's not like they have anything to lose by letting some guest hosts in, though, so they may as well give it a go.

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In some ways though giving other departments to host official events is very similar to having guest events? :P but yeah i think if they were topen them at least theres more events, the fact a lot are posted away from the department anyway is probably the reason why there are lack of events.

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Originally Posted by Despect

In some ways though giving other departments to host official events is very similar to having guest events? :P but yeah i think if they were topen them at least theres more events, the fact a lot are posted away from the department anyway is probably the reason why there are lack of events.

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But that's what I mean. Very few people from other departments actually are hosting events! And I know lots of people are posted away but I think the amount of events hosted is pretty poor all the time, it just happens to be a little bit worse with all these people posted away.

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Originally Posted by Despect

We'll never know till you offer guest roles to people and its not making them events hosts at all because i think you'd rather have people who are experienced and know what they are doing than no events at all, lets face it the amount of events currently booked is poor and getting guest events to do events to fill up the calendar surely thats a good thing? :P

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That's because of the time of year though. So youre saying if we appointed Guest Event's Organisers it would make a huge difference, would they also not be with family and friends at Christmas? Not forgetting a majority of people have based this thread on the current booking calendar for this coming week which yes, has very little to no events booked at the moment.

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Originally Posted by Empired

But that's what I mean. Very few people from other departments actually are hosting events! And I know lots of people are posted away but I think the amount of events hosted is pretty poor all the time, it just happens to be a little bit worse with all these people posted away.

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Originally Posted by mdport.

That's because of the time of year though. So youre saying if we appointed Guest Event's Organisers it would make a huge difference, would they also not be with family and friends at Christmas? Not forgetting a majority of people have based this thread on the current booking calendar for this coming week which yes, has very little to no events booked at the moment.

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Completely understand that it is the time of the year, people are wanting to actually spend time with family and friends and so on. However, the point made about Guest events wanting to spend time with their family during Christmas again, that is very true. However, why not give it a trial run to see how it actually works? You could be very surprised.

It's just like the same people hosting over and over again and it shouldn't be like that. Also, the point about other staff members who aren't in the events department not wanting to host events they shouldn't really to considering half of the departments have other Christmas happenings in their own departments.

But yeah completely understand if there are 7 people posted away because we were having the same problem with HxL.

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Originally Posted by mdport.

That's because of the time of year though. So youre saying if we appointed Guest Event's Organisers it would make a huge difference, would they also not be with family and friends at Christmas? Not forgetting a majority of people have based this thread on the current booking calendar for this coming week which yes, has very little to no events booked at the moment.

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Originally Posted by Despect

Completely understand that it is the time of the year, people are wanting to actually spend time with family and friends and so on. However, the point made about Guest events wanting to spend time with their family during Christmas again, that is very true. However, why not give it a trial run to see how it actually works? You could be very surprised.

It's just like the same people hosting over and over again and it shouldn't be like that. Also, the point about other staff members who aren't in the events department not wanting to host events they shouldn't really to considering half of the departments have other Christmas happenings in their own departments.

But yeah completely understand if there are 7 people posted away because we were having the same problem with HxL.

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This is why I suggested raising the minimum to 4 events a week rather than 3. If there are people in that department who are comfortably doing 10, I don't see why anyone should complain that they cannot dedicate 4 hours a week of their time to their department.

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Originally Posted by Empired

This is why I suggested raising the minimum to 4 events a week rather than 3. If there are people in that department who are comfortably doing 10, I don't see why anyone should complain that they cannot dedicate 4 hours a week of their time to their department.

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But then increasing it that would be making it even more difficult on the people who are posted away :P.

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Originally Posted by Despect

But then increasing it that would be making it even more difficult on the people who are posted away :P.

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If you're posted away you don't have to do any events at all do you?

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Originally Posted by Empired

If you're posted away you don't have to do any events at all do you?

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Nope, however when people go back to school etc, 4 would be way too much for them.

Unless, you mean putting it as 4 a week for the christmas period?

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Originally Posted by Despect

Nope, however when people go back to school etc, 4 would be way too much for them.

Unless, you mean putting it as 4 a week for the christmas period?

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No I mean moving it up to 4 constantly. Like I say, if Nick can manage ten events a week and think that that's not enough, people should be able to do four. Plus, four events a day should still be fine with school as if you do one each night after school, you're already on five.

I just think it would vastly increase the amount of events being hosted, whereas introducing guest hosts would add three-four events a week maximum.

I do agree 4/5 events a week would maybe be too much with school going on etc but at the same time if you were to raise the minimums at certain times of the year this could possibly work. Although keeping in mind Non-GMT people don't always get holidays at the same time as GMT people. So half term times where you could raise the minimums would be hard for Non-GMT people.