Welcome Committee

[Josh]

When registering, you should restrict all forums except the welcome thread. Then, to progress onto the full forum, you have to post twice. Then encourage them to post a hello thread and then also an interest thread. And then, as a "new level" introduce the public welcome thread. idk

Yes... restricting; but at least they know you're there and will later lead to better retainment (is that the word) of the users when they see a few members warmly greeting them to the forum.

[FlyingJesus]

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

Upper management's changed a lot since I was involved then lol

[myke]

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

it seems wayyy too robotic and would put me off

[Calvin]

To be honest, I don't think there is any need for this. If anyone was a new member and needed help they would go to http://habboxforum.com/help which is posted somewhere or PM a member of management. And I would hate creating a thread and a bunch of users posting the same thing, something like "Hello, welcome to HabboxForum. Check out the welcome forums if you need any help". It's like having a bunch of programmed robots but each saying the sentence in a different way, it's pointless.

[Sarah]

I would agree that it needs a bit of a revamp and needs to be manage so that it can work more effectively. Jamesy has plans to do this, but as everyone knows he is very busy. I dont think it would be fair to restrict users from all forums so they can only see the welcome forums (I think wiizz said this?) as they should be free to post where ever. Better advertisement of the system may also help in its advantage.

[Mathew]

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

Sounds like exactly what's said in the Hello / Goodbye Section. It's intention was to be personal (like you did, asking for their name) yet it seems to have reverted to the generic "Hi, read the rules, enjoy"

I don't want to sound amazing by predicting it's future before it even started but hey, I did!

[Tintinnabulate]

Forum has done fine without a WC for like 6 years. Management need to stop wasting time on silly things like WC and concentrate more on how to get more members and with the current mod team, its not helping.

[Apple]

Forum has done fine without a WC for like 6 years. Management need to stop wasting time on silly things like WC and concentrate more on how to get more members and with the current mod team, its not helping.

"with the current mod team, its not helping"

What do you mean by that?

[Recursion]

Merge it with HxHD. Simples.

[Tintinnabulate]

"with the current mod team, its not helping"

What do you mean by that?

There are silly rules which has pushed a lot of the active members away. Just compare this forums activity with CHF. Last night at midnight, CHF spam went back 3 hrs, Hxf spam went back 27 hours.