News Bot

[MissAlice]

The way I see it is this, that it only makes a thread, no discussion takes place with the bot, not the trait of a member who gets involved and discusses what's been posted. Correct me if I am wrong

[Dentafrice]

The way I see it is this, that it only makes a thread, no discussion takes place with the bot, not the trait of a member who gets involved and discusses what's been posted. Correct me if I am wrong

You're exactly right.

There should be a seperation between the news department and the forum. It's integrating too much of the site into the forum.

The forum is a community, where we discuss our own topics, not what an automated RSS bot tells us to discuss.

It's not fair if we post the news first.. then the bot does, and we get our threads closed :\

I just don't think the system is worth it, and shouldn't be here. The news forum worked for so many years without the bot.. why change something that wasn't broken?

[Mr.OSH]

As said previously the bot is being trialed for now and a judgment on its effectiveness will be made in the near future. Thanks for your feedback.

[Dentafrice]

I mean how could you judge it in the near future? You should be able to see how much people hate it now..

[nvrspk4]

Cause a lot of people tend to hate things in the short run where in the long run they get used to it and give it a chance

Threads being closed because the RSS bot posted it isn't cool, unless the RSS bot posted first. We'll probably move posts to a subforum instead, you're right that does make much more sense

[Dentafrice]

Thanks for clarifying this Glad to see the idea might be put to use.

If it's put in it's own sub-forum.. I really don't think people should have room to complain.

[Slowpoke]

I agree and I think the introduction of its own sub-forum will keep the forum looking a lot tidier too! Seeing the [Habbox] all over the place in that section is a big eye sore for me although I don't know if the same can be said for anyone else.

[Dentafrice]

Yeah, makes it look like **** That way if people want to, they can read the Habbox New's version of the news.. or the user-generated news.

[GommeInc]

Yeah, makes it look like **** That way if people want to, they can read the Habbox New's version of the news.. or the user-generated news.

Problem with that though, moving it to a sub-forum suggests "if people want to view Habbox Habbo News, they'll go there" but that would be pointless because if people want to view Habbox Habbo News, they could just go to the website :/

[nvrspk4]

Problem with that though, moving it to a sub-forum suggests "if people want to view Habbox Habbo News, they'll go there" but that would be pointless because if people want to view Habbox Habbo News, they could just go to the website :/

If people want to discuss Habbox Habbo news they should go here