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[immense]

Someone quite clearly forgot to read the entirety of my post. I'll rise above and see if anyone else (like they began for Catzsy replied) has anything genuine and valid to help Habbox.

Anyway, to use CH as an example they've had four big updates in the last week:

http://www.clubhabboforum.net/forumdisplay.php?f=11
Account sharing
Policy updates - plan to change name changes and may others
Taking people off the blacklist, giving people another chance
Reputation changes

[Nixt]

Regarding "policy updates" we are soon to be implementing some of the policies from the winning party of the General Election and one in particular is quite exciting. I think the plan is for this to happen on Sunday but I don't see why we can't bring it forward but there may be practical issues in the way in which case we will get them to you as soon as possible.

[immense]

Ooooh, exciting Look forward to seeing what they are.

[Tintinnabulate]

Ooooh, exciting Look forward to seeing what they are.

Its exciting . I thought it was being done on Sunday so me and AlexOC could post it in Dev updates?

Some stats I thought people might like to know:

These are all for the 'Discuss Anything' forum.

17 threads have the last post date as 13 May 2005.
25 threads have the last post date as 13 May 2006.
13 threads have the last post date as 13 May 2007.
2 threads have the last post date as 13 May 2008.
2 threads have the last post date as 13 May 2009.
3 threads have the last post date as 12 May 2009.

The below is based on 20 threads per page.

For April 2005, it shows the following number of pages: 16 Full pages
For April 2006, it shows the following number of pages: 38 Full pages & 2 threads
For April 2007, it shows the following number of pages: 13 Full pages & 11 threads
For April 2008, it shows the following number of pages: 8 Full pages & 16 threads
For April 2009, it shows the following number of pages: 5 Full pages & 10 threads
For April 2010, it shows the following number of pages: 2 Full pages & 10 threads

[Nixt]

Its exciting . I thought it was being done on Sunday so me and AlexOC could post it in Dev updates?

You are posting it obv that was the terms of the competition noob.

[FlyingJesus]

The death of Discuss Anything can largely be attributed to the fact that there are forum areas for pretty much everything now except for random pointless questions, anything else gets moved it seems. I posted a thread there a fair while back now about what I thought was a general issue and it got moved to the Health section, and countless threads across the years have been blasted away to spam.

Also I didn't know our election was just a rushed copy of the CH one, for shame. That said, hopefully this new policy or whatever will be something that actually works well for the community rather than just a people-pleasing idea that ends up either getting reversed or not affecting anyone. Not that we ever have updates like that of course...

[Tintinnabulate]

The death of Discuss Anything can largely be attributed to the fact that there are forum areas for pretty much everything now except for random pointless questions, anything else gets moved it seems. I posted a thread there a fair while back now about what I thought was a general issue and it got moved to the Health section, and countless threads across the years have been blasted away to spam.

Also I didn't know our election was just a rushed copy of the CH one, for shame. That said, hopefully this new policy or whatever will be something that actually works well for the community rather than just a people-pleasing idea that ends up either getting reversed or not affecting anyone. Not that we ever have updates like that of course...

The update will be good and many people will probably use it/like it. I highly doubt it will be reversed unless there is something majorily wrong with it. Just wait till sunday =]

And I agree about threads being moved, I posted how Google has changed its page and it was moved to Technology.

[Nixt]

Also I didn't know our election was just a rushed copy of the CH one, for shame. That said, hopefully this new policy or whatever will be something that actually works well for the community rather than just a people-pleasing idea that ends up either getting reversed or not affecting anyone. Not that we ever have updates like that of course...

When Oli and I came up the idea we genuinely had no idea (believe it or not) about the CHF Election, and the way ours was run and executed was significantly different to theirs. It was mentioned quite a while back at the start of the General Election campaigning in real life as we discussed possible things we could do to tie in with it, seeing as we knew quite a lot of our members were following the real life election with enthusiasm. The actual details weren't discussed and planned until after CHF had posted the details of their election as we pretty much planned and posted the details on the same day, but it was mentioned and pretty much decided upon beforehand.

[Catzsy]

Someone quite clearly forgot to read the entirety of my post. I'll rise above and see if anyone else (like they began for Catzsy replied) has anything genuine and valid to help Habbox.

Anyway, to use CH as an example they've had four big updates in the last week:

http://www.clubhabboforum.net/forumdisplay.php?f=11
Account sharing
Policy updates - plan to change name changes and may others
Taking people off the blacklist, giving people another chance
Reputation changes

Well Habbox has been very busy itself in recent times:
Scrapping of post approval
http://www.habboxforum.com/showthrea...44#post6208744
Changes to reputation]
http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=620715
Twitter User Filed added to profiles
http://www.habboxforum.com/showthrea...31#post6218331
New Video rule
http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=632793
Rules revamp
http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=633444
Site Updates]
http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=633501
Ex- staff members merit badge and forum]
http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=634377
Summary of User Interface Tweaks since the introduction of vB4 ]
'Habbo UK News & Rumours' description changed
Removal of the 'Hobbies' forum
Arcade Returns ~ Chance for you to choose new games!
Post-bit style chooser now available.
http://www.habboxforum.com/showthrea...74#post6368874
Removal of the OS sub-forums,
Changes in rep power for new users,
New userbars for Donators,
FAQ Update,
Release of Mobile Skin,
Image Resizer enabled.
http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=635478
New Social Groups
http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=635712
New Mobile Skin,
Arcade Changes,
Return of the Radio Plugin,
New Forum Rules Images.
http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=636814
Updates to Habbox Rare Values system
http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=636814
Re-organisation of 'Help / Questions / Feedback' Section
http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=643075

Also number of posts/threads is not necessarily a key to a successful forum. Take Miss Alice - a very valued member of the forum but not that many posts. Habbox probably has less spam than a lot of other forums and so is known for quality rather than having to go through 10 threads to find one worthwhile. In fact we have many active quality forums. Members have not migrated in large numbers
and as I say many members join every day.

Taking people off the blacklist, giving people another chance

This interests me as I would say it takes a great deal more to ban somebody on Habbox than it would there and I know the management review bans and sutobans regularly and many members have been afforded a second chance. As I said before, although you didn't consider it, genuine or valid I believe that Habbox should really capitalise on the Habbo Merge with a lot of staff resources going into it. One thing that I would introduce is probably letting members have pictures of themselves in their avatars. I do think that now we allow them elsewhere on the forum the time has now come. What ideas do you have?

[immense]

How many of those encourage posting? Not many at all. This is the issue here, please stay on topic within my thread. I have already said I'm puzzled as to why posting has decline as has been corroborated with what Saurav has collected and that the only outcome is to do something controversial. However, I've been informed some strong changes are planned and seeing as the management team is relatively new (to their current positions) I feel I should see what happens within the next week or two and then I'll bless you with my ideas.