Welcome Committee

[Tintinnabulate]

If i was new to the forum and someone was like "Hello, how are you. Hope you enjoy the forum. Don't forget.. blah blah blah" i would be annoyed and be like :S:S and probs leave the forum cause i would be pissed off the moment i joined. I think the committee might of been nice for a little while but it's flopped like many "implemented ideas" i think you need to get the forums opinion. maybe a poll or something.

Well this is the typical replies in the committee, well here is the latest thread in full:

Hey guys. Just stopping by to say hi and hope to see you guys around on Habbo.

Hey there! Welcome to HxF (HabboxForum) hope you enjoy being here!
Need any help, Personal messege me or drop a messege on my profile.
Check out www.habboxlive.com and www.habbox.com
Stay active around the forum, look at all the different sections and have fun!

Hiyaa welcome to the forum
If you search xxMATTGxx on habbo alot of people hang round in the help desk so I hope to see you in there ;D
My habbo name is Biscuitss so feel free to add me!
Don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions/problems
Hope you decide to stick around!

Welcome to Habboxforum! Feel free to add me on Habbo (habbo = molly.22, hard guess). Hope to see you around the forum.

Heyyyy! Whats your name? Welcome to the forums and I hope you enjoy it =].

[Nixt]

Thats all good but out of the 8 people, I think only 2 sent in the votes and no one bothered replying to my post.

Anyway, which committee has worked in the past as I was under the impression they have all failed...

Well, we're certainly keen to give it a go and if it fails we'll accept defeat and move on. The thing is we're trying to look at ways to make new members feel less daunted and more welcome when they come to the forum and the Welcome Committee is supposed to do this - by more than saying Hello (@ Tom). That's why we're going to stress the idea of them becoming Ambassadors rather than just "Helloers" and that may mean shifting people around a bit, as you have highlighted above there is some disinterest by members that really isn't good enough.

The only real "committee" of the past was the council, which a much broader mandate than making new members feel welcome. The chairman we appoint will hopefully give the committee some direction, they have much more of a free reign than the council ever did and we hope that the chairman will harness this and really get something going. Success or failure, we tried at least .

[rnix]

I would log off straight away or hide that forum. That seems so annoying :L
I just don't think there is a need for the committee. The Welcome to habbox hello and goodbye thread is welcoming enough. Heck i don't even think i used it when i signed up.

[Tintinnabulate]

Well, we're certainly keen to give it a go and if it fails we'll accept defeat and move on. The thing is we're trying to look at ways to make new members feel less daunted and more welcome when they come to the forum and the Welcome Committee is supposed to do this - by more than saying Hello (@ Tom). That's why we're going to stress the idea of them becoming Ambassadors rather than just "Helloers" and that may mean shifting people around a bit, as you have highlighted above there is some disinterest by members that really isn't good enough.

The only real "committee" of the past was the council, which a much broader mandate than making new members feel welcome. The chairman we appoint will hopefully give the committee some direction, they have much more of a free reign than the council ever did and we hope that the chairman will harness this and really get something going. Success or failure, we tried at least .

I don't think there are many people who bully new members now.

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Lol I love how I posted that the WC should be removed and instantly I get removed from it .

[rnix]

WC just lost their potential leader

I say a forum vote. TBH

[FlyingJesus]

we're trying to look at ways to make new members feel less daunted and more welcome when they come to the forum and the Welcome Committee is supposed to do this - by more than saying Hello

In what way can this be done? If a member - new or old - doesn't know how to do something around here or has some sort of problem they can and do post about it either in spam if it's not something serious or in this sort of area if it requires staff contact. I might be missing something but I can't see what really needs doing for new members other than a hello and maybe a couple of useful links, which if they want to make a welcome thread they'll get anyway.

[Tintinnabulate]

In what way can this be done? If a member - new or old - doesn't know how to do something around here or has some sort of problem they can and do post about it either in spam if it's not something serious or in this sort of area if it requires staff contact. I might be missing something but I can't see what really needs doing for new members other than a hello and maybe a couple of useful links, which if they want to make a welcome thread they'll get anyway.

Like my example of a full thread shows, its just people posting standard replies. Its failed and when people do post proper replies which can leave to conversations, the new members just never reply back so it feels useless. They seem to prefer the public welcome forums.

[Nixt]

In what way can this be done? If a member - new or old - doesn't know how to do something around here or has some sort of problem they can and do post about it either in spam if it's not something serious or in this sort of area if it requires staff contact. I might be missing something but I can't see what really needs doing for new members other than a hello and maybe a couple of useful links, which if they want to make a welcome thread they'll get anyway.

As I said before, I am hoping that committee members become general ambassadors. They should not be restricted to the welcome forum but should actively be looking out for new members threads / posts and replying to them, sending new members visitor messages and saying hi etc. Basically, doing things that repeatedly come up in feedback threads as things that would be good to happen. By having a dedicated team doing this we can make sure it happens and continues to happen, as they will not be burdened with anything else but this task.

[rnix]

As I said before, I am hoping that committee members become general ambassadors. They should not be restricted to the welcome forum but should actively be looking out for new members threads / posts and replying to them, sending new members visitor messages and saying hi etc. Basically, doing things that repeatedly come up in feedback threads as things that would be good to happen. By having a dedicated team doing this we can make sure it happens and continues to happen, as they will not be burdened with anything else but this task.

I highly doubt people will be thrilled to work as "welcoming" new people as they don't get respected for it. If it was a more important role then i think people will be more willing to do the job.

[Nixt]

I highly doubt people will be thrilled to work as "welcoming" new people as they don't get respected for it. If it was a more important role then i think people will be more willing to do the job.

I'm not interested in giving people the job on the basis that they will feel important. We want people who are keen to be there for new members and further the forums popularity in doing that. In fact, these are the people we need - people in it for the "importance" aren't going to be truly dedicated to the task and will ultimately be unsuccessful.