Staff Posting Competition

[AgnesIO]

Hey

I think (as most of you know) staff should post more than they do. So...

Why not have a staff posting competition, similar to the one running now, where the staff member who posts the most each week wins one month VIP? The same staff member would not be able to win with two weeks back to back, to encourage people to try the week after.

Managers would be excluded from the competition, since 1) if they are not posting in the first place something is going wrong. 2) They get VIP for being managers anyway

I know people who are not staff may disagree with this, but I think in terms of getting new members, people may want to join more if their FAVOURITE HABBOX STAFF MEMBERS POST AND THEY CAN TALK TO THEM!!! If you want to make sure on-staff members don't like it, set one up for them (maybe not so frequently..) - although I personally don't see why anyone would have a problem with it.

For all the staff members do for Habbox, I don't think a competition like this - as a sort of thank you, but also should up staff posting - would really do any harm.

Thoughts?

[Triz]

I have no objections, but we already have a sort of "competition" for posting in place.
But even if this was implemented, it wouldn't work any better. (on me anyway) VIP is only, what? £1 a month? In my eyes, posting vigorously throughout the month to save £1 is not worth it lol.

Plus staff members should be dedicated enough to post without reward. But as I said there is a "competition" for staff already in place to, in a sense help push staff members to post. I wouldn't call it a competition though as it's more or less weekly

[AgnesIO]

I have no objections, but we already have a sort of "competition" for posting in place.
But even if this was implemented, it wouldn't work any better. (on me anyway) VIP is only, what? £1 a month? In my eyes, posting vigorously throughout the month to save £1 is not worth it lol.

Plus staff members should be dedicated enough to post without reward. But as I said there is a "competition" for staff already in place to in a sense help push staff members to post. I wouldn't call it a competition though as it's more or less weekly

VIP is £1.50 and can only be bought at Christmas. Donator is the £1.50 a month.

VIP has more features (usertitles, bigger signatures, bigger avatars, rep points, ability to be invisible, 15 rep points per month) a fair amount of stuff really.

The problem is, staff members don't post regularly (well many do, but there are a fair few that don't ). At the end of the day, all ths atff at Hx are volunteers, so I think it would be a good way to not only encourage posting, but also say thank you to them.

[Kyle]

A qualitative competition would be much better. I wouldn't like to see the staff going down the same route as some of the normal users and just posting boring threads that won't spark up any kind of discussion whatsoever. Perhaps there should be a staff poster of the month comp for each section, much like MoTM.

[myke]

btw we dont get vip for being manager

[AgnesIO]

A qualitative competition would be much better. I wouldn't like to see the staff going down the same route as some of the normal users and just posting boring threads that won't spark up any kind of discussion whatsoever. Perhaps there should be a staff poster of the month comp for each section, much like MoTM.

Yeah that would be a good idea. Only problem would be; who picks the best poster in each section? I think it would be a bit cruel to single out MODs from the competition. Mind you, Super MODs can have VIP over their red name anyway can they?

Anything that encourages staff to post would, in my opinion, be a benefit to Habbox.

btw we dont get vip for being manager

Oh I thought you did. You do when you leave though Don't you get VIP features or something? I swear IU read somewhere about managers and VIP :L

[Andy-]

I have no objections to this idea but some Staff Positions don't require you top post on forums as much like Help Desk and Rare Values as in RV the only time it will be necessary for me to post on forums are in the Staff Forums and in the Trading Section if someone needs help.

[rnix]

I don't feel like reading through all your replies but
Staff are asked to post around the forum, even the mods have a target to hit - But you can't force people too and it's their own choice if they want to post around the forum. I think thats why they got rid of the staff talk about anything so people post in the public forums more.

[Hecktix]

btw we dont get vip for being manager

Yes you do, Managers have VIP features (bar coloured name) within their management permissions and you are given normal VIP when you leave, this was agreed to by the managers as a better system than managers getting monthly VIP.

I ran a staff posting competition last year and I can't remember how well it worked, perhaps it did work I dont know but I have a feeling it was just the staff who already post, posting more. We shouldn't force staff to post on HabboxForum, for instance we don't force staff to listen to HabboxLive or use Habbox.com or visit Habbox events. Moderators are expected to post and are told this and assessed on it in their monthly reports, DJs are expected to listen to HxL etc but we can only expect people to do stuff in relation to their job. If they don't want to post on HabboxForum, as long as their job doesnt involve the public area of HabboxForum then they don't have to.

Of course I would rather it if more staff did post and stuff like the whole forum posting competition can make this happen, I've noticed a few in the top 10 are staff who haven't really posted before - so this is generally a good thing already, and may suggest that a staff posting competition may have similar responses.

[Triz]

ah well £1.. £1.50

Same thing lol.
But like I said.. Staff already have a means of motivating staff to post. I would tell you what it is, but not sure I am allowed
& I think what you get in return is enough to post and interact with the members of HXF.