Habbox News

[e5]

When this thread was in Habbo in General - To those who asked why - Because it was the 600 and odd Habbo-related reports I was reffering to (UK) not International or out of Habbo news.

[Martin]

I havn't long been in the department, but I don't think that figure is anything to worry about really.

At the moment we have a very small team, but I do believe that the department is coping well. There have been management changes throughout the year, and this does affect things a bit. Staff getting used to the system etc, and also the amount of News that there actually is to report all makes a difference.

Thanks to the people who believe in us, and we will continue to bring you the best reports we possibly can, whilst maintaining quality of course. I don't think that many Habbo News articles are left out when it comes to being turned into a Habbox News report, and that surely has to be good?

I will admit one thing that does need improving, and we will be working on, is our International News reports. We understand that many Habbox users/guests are interested in News outiside the Uk hotel, and we will aim to give them some juicy reports too!


Martin

Just wanted to add, that the only thing I feel that should change, is the amount of time it takes for News reports to be approved. I don't at all blame Lana, as it must take ages to approve them etc, but sometimes it takes more than 24 hours for them to be approved, and by this time the news is often out of date/not relevant anymore.

I think this will improve once Lana gets an assistant to help with this, but it can be quite frustrating at times when a report you have put a lot of work into is "old news" by the time it is actually published on Habbox.com.

Maybe there could be more people who are able to "Approve" News reporters reports? I blame the system in a way, as Surely once news reporters pass the trialist stage, they could be trusted to post reports without having to have them approved or something? I don't know really.

[Grig]

Wait what is this 'approval' system. I don't think it was here when I was there earlier this year? In the past news reporters were always trusted to post top quality articles, thus no approvals were needed so this is something new ;o.

[Martin]

Wait what is this 'approval' system. I don't think it was here when I was there earlier this year? In the past news reporters were always trusted to post top quality articles, thus no approvals were needed so this is something new ;o.

I'm not sure how long it's been around, but it basically means that any reports written by Myself/Tootish have to be Approved before they can be seen by the public.

Whilst in theory it's a good idea, it can also be annoying when some news reports are a day out of date, as some competitions/events last for one day only and so the News isn't really worth reading once the event has happened.

Lana is great at approving them, and I know Jin has been helping out too. It's just a small Issue, and one that I'm sure won't be a problem when we get a new assistant manager. Luckily we are a very small team right now, so there arn't that many reports that have to be approved each day.

[Grig]

Ah that sounds cool, I was just wondering because in Aprilish time reports didn't need approval. Though all in all you're all doing a great job considering the setbacks you had before and the small team size, so well done !