Welcome Committee

[rnix]

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.

I know it is not meant to be a habbo department because it will be a pointless department addition. I'm just saying maybe if they had more things to do then people would respect the position. Cause at the moment it doesn't seem that nice to do. Obviously i don't know what goes on behind closed doors.

[Tintinnabulate]

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.

I think its more important to allow mods to do this and make it a job criteria that they need to post more.

[HotelUser]

Since day one with the committee I've been curious why managers haven't had access, actually. I would have thought it would have enabled us to give a good push towards letting new users know about our departments, job applications and so on because it's very intimidating being a newcomer and not knowing where to find this information. As the gist of the committee seems to make new users feel welcome and to guide them to an extent, I think it would be very reputable if managers--especially those of us who don't particularly get involved on the forum much--welcomed new users.

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 .

I can assure you that if you were removed from the welcome committee, it was on the basis of other circumstances in which I'm sure Garion or James would be more than happy to divulge if you sent either one a PM

[Inseriousity.]

I wasn't really a fan of the welcome committee when it started tbh. You could have the welcome committee but remove the new member's forum so that they have to post in the Welcome to Habbox/Goodbye forum. This means they're not segregated but they're still being 'helped' by a number of select people. Also I'm not really sure on the label as being 'new'. Yeah sure, they signed up recently but when I signed up, I didn't think 'oh I'm new here, I better ask for help', I just posted around and learnt these things gradually.

The whole idea of a welcome committee just seems patronizing to me but maybe that's because I'm older and probably wouldn't want to be welcomed by people who had to post the usual cliches rather than people who post because they want to.

[Tintinnabulate]

Since day one with the committee I've been curious why managers haven't had access, actually. I would have thought it would have enabled us to give a good push towards letting new users know about our departments, job applications and so on because it's very intimidating being a newcomer and not knowing where to find this information. As the gist of the committee seems to make new users feel welcome and to guide them to an extent, I think it would be very reputable if managers--especially those of us who don't particularly get involved on the forum much--welcomed new users.



I can assure you that if you were removed from the welcome committee, it was on the basis of other circumstances in which I'm sure Garion or James would be more than happy to divulge if you sent either one a PM

Lol stop trying to act clever and trying to be patronising. You are only making yourself look foolish. I was removed because of this thread and it was said in the PM too ...


Let me quote Garion's PM

"Your obvious lack of faith in the ability of the committee to successfully achieve its aims suggests to me that you are no longer entirely suitable to the position." and the whole line had a hyper link to the PM.
Well done on making yourself look like a complete idiot by trying to act clever.

And wow, complete lack of faith? I suggested ideas to which neither James and Garion bothered replying to in the WC forums. Lack of faith? I think its them who cannot be bothered, not me. Oh what a surprise, most people are agreeing that its useless so remember if you are staff, never say a negative word or they will get rid of you.

[HotelUser]

I wasn't really a fan of the welcome committee when it started tbh. You could have the welcome committee but remove the new member's forum so that they have to post in the Welcome to Habbox/Goodbye forum. This means they're not segregated but they're still being 'helped' by a number of select people. Also I'm not really sure on the label as being 'new'. Yeah sure, they signed up recently but when I signed up, I didn't think 'oh I'm new here, I better ask for help', I just posted around and learnt these things gradually.

The whole idea of a welcome committee just seems patronizing to me but maybe that's because I'm older and probably wouldn't want to be welcomed by people who had to post the usual cliches rather than people who post because they want to.

I agree that I think it might be better to just have one welcome forum, although if Habbox stuck with the public welcome forum I think it would make the job of welcome committee staff somewhat redundant.

Lol stop trying to act clever and trying to be patronising. You are only making yourself look foolish. I was removed because of this thread and it was said in the PM too ...


Let me quote Garion's PM

"Your obvious lack of faith in the ability of the committee to successfully achieve its aims suggests to me that you are no longer entirely suitable to the position." and the whole line had a hyper link to the PM.
Well done on making yourself look like a complete idiot by trying to act clever.

And wow, complete lack of faith? I suggested ideas to which neither James and Garion bothered replying to in the WC forums. Lack of faith? I think its them who cannot be bothered, not me. Oh what a surprise, most people are agreeing that its useless so remember if you are staff, never say a negative word or they will get rid of you.

I think what might have happened was a number of your posts around the forum were just extremely rude and not welcoming for a member of the welcome committee. As such a staff member the gist of your attitude around the forum in general should be quite friendly and welcoming. Certainly breaking forum rules is firstly something no staff member should do but especially something a forum moderator or welcome committee staffmembere should look out for as their jobs are of courses based around the forum.

Believe it or not, Garion has many priorities, and none of which include conspiring against welcome committee staff who disagree with him

[GommeInc]

I'm guessing it's a hidden forum? What was wrong with the Welcome / Goodbye Forum? You pretty much got people replying in there - either for personal benefit or to actually welcome people, and the concept worked well. You don't need a pointless, restrictive system to command it either so there's quite a bit of freedom revolving around it.

Also why do we need a welcome committee? No other forum needs one unless you're the "Granny Society" or "Young Mums Living Like Bums Committee". I'm not sure what the purpose is, seeing as people join a forum to see what it's like, and welcoming them may become off putting. If anything, you just need an automated welcome message to direct them to the rules, who to talk to if there's a problem, what forums are which etc etc. I'd be annoyed by being spammed, and it's pretty rude to suggest that ALL registered users must use the forum, when quite alot of forums just have members register to see what the fuss is about, and leave if it's not for them - give them that freedom, don't force something else down their necks Might explain why old members aren't deleted, as it would appear someone assumes they will come back and use the forum, even though the likelihood is that they won't.

[Tintinnabulate]

I agree that I think it might be better to just have one welcome forum, although if Habbox stuck with the public welcome forum I think it would make the job of welcome committee staff somewhat redundant.



I think what might have happened was a number of your posts around the forum were just extremely rude and not welcoming for a member of the welcome committee. As such a staff member the gist of your attitude around the forum in general should be quite friendly and welcoming. Certainly breaking forum rules is firstly something no staff member should do but especially something a forum moderator or welcome committee staffmembere should look out for as their jobs are of courses based around the forum.

Believe it or not, Garion has many priorities, and none of which include conspiring against welcome committee staff who disagree with him

If you have a problem with my posts, use the report button. As a member of moderation you should know but as a trialist maybe the concept isn't too familiar :rolleyes: I showed you the PM and wow negatives? I post more positive ideas than you have even considered.

You clearly are a terrible manage with a awful attitude.
Lets see:

You -rep me, Shar -reps me 5 minutes later (x5 last month). Garion removed every single one of them, showing how awful you attitude is. Makes me wonder how you even become a moderator, probably a lack of applications.
Shar sends me a PM and you -rep me two minutes later.
Pathetic.

[Apple]

I think that we have been doing fine considering the lack of management. Jamesy is extremely busy so it would be wrong to say that it is his fault, he is actually in the middle of selecting a Chairman to in a sense manage the Welcome Committee. With this we will have someone that is active/up to date with the Welcome Committee so can clear things up and make any internal changes they deem necessary. The most important issue we are having is getting people to post in the first place. I'm not sure if the Welcome Committee is mentioned in the new member auto PM but I would assume it is. Maybe a banner at the top which only new members can see that encourages them to post in the Welcome Committee section?

[Tintinnabulate]

I think that we have been doing fine considering the lack of management. Jamesy is extremely busy so it would be wrong to say that it is his fault, he is actually in the middle of selecting a Chairman to in a sense manage the Welcome Committee. With this we will have someone that is active/up to date with the Welcome Committee so can clear things up and make any internal changes they deem necessary. The most important issue we are having is getting people to post in the first place. I'm not sure if the Welcome Committee is mentioned in the new member auto PM but I would assume it is. Maybe a banner at the top which only new members can see that encourages them to post in the Welcome Committee section?

You already cannot see the first forum when you load the index (well just about see the first one) so another banner would make it uglier.