My ideas :)

[Martin]

• Habbox (site) is more important than Forum – get working on that.
Totally agreed, and it's such a shame that parts of the site have been left to weaken over the past few months. I think anticipation of V6 has slowed things down and some key elements have lost quality. I think even with V6 coming up, new designs/ideas for the current site would have been nice and these probably should have taken place to keep things fresh. I try to keep HabboxToday updated each week, and I know most managers normally do this and it's useful for advertising etc. It's crucial that we find the right balance of material on the site which caters to our audience, provides unique things for the community and is fun and interactive in the way it works. It needs to look good, offer a purpose and most of all offer something different to other fansites. The main Habbox.com link should be peoples initial impression of us, and tbh looking at the current site I think this could be improved on A LOT.

• New material for Habbox – teens corner, persuade Jin. What else?
I really like this idea, and it has been brought up in various meetings and similar things have certainly been suggested. We really do need to focus on offering content which our teen members will get something out of. We have to accept that the majority of our userbase will want something they are interested in, and I think something like this could be really useful, and offer something different and unique. I was offering to expand news a bit into a more articles type feel, perhaps offering content in which users could interact with the articles, get their opinions accross and gain useful and meaningful content from the site. Teen help issues/general teen topics could be introduced and this could be quite interesting to have a go with. I'm sure the content department could possibly look into more things like this too, but really at the end of the day it's determined on which direction Jin wants to take it. I know we do have some lovely new features planned for the site, and hopefully these will freshen things up a bit.
• Merge HabboxLive and Habbox
100% agreed with this. I think in the past perhaps the habboxlive site has done well, and it's served a purpose, but these days I just think it's not used much, and we really do need to put all of the focus onto the main site. With the fantastic new and unique design of the site coming up in V6, I think it's going to be much easier to include hxl with the main site and it would actually benefit them in the long run I believe. I can understand Hxl's view of wanting their own site etc, but really there's nothing to lose in merging it apart form a combined fanbase, with the possibilty of readers attracting listeners and listeners attracting readers. It's really a win situation. I personally would love to see this happen, and I think it will be much easier to draw people to the site this way, and get people interacting with the site more.

• Get well known Habbos to advertise Habbox in their rooms
Another great suggestion, and I think we certainly do need to work on the Habbo aspect of things more. Perhaps we could approach some of these Habbos and put it to them. Sometimes it's hard since they would probably expect something in return, however it would be really useful to have this advertising.


• Put teles in the most popular Habbo rooms and create a Habbox mall type thing – link to HxHD too.
I know this is another thing which is currently in the works. It's just taking a while. A large network of Habbox rooms could be very beneficial in advertising the site and forum, and by choosing popular themes of rules such as roleplay, social and practical rooms we can hopefully get the habbox name noticed, get a lot of rooms popular and up the rooms lists and most importantly get the habbox name out there. We need to be top of those room lists most hours of the day, not just a couple of hours a night. If we can do this, it should be easier to attract international users too!


• Ask popular foreign Habbo fansites (habbotimes) if they want Habbox to be their UK based forum.
Interesting idea, and I think it could work well. We could certainly do with introducing ourselves to more international fanbases, and with the merge of habbo earlier this year, it's a shame that we haven't been able to fully achieve this yet. It would be great to gain new members, and linking up with a whole site as a kind of "twin town" kind of partnership could be good, and interesting.


• From now on only management who are dedicated, powerful, interact and actively use Habbo (being known is a preference – yes shallow but does undoubtedly help).
I guess the way managers are hired currently is based on a few things. Activeness, lenth of time in the job, and other issues such as determination to succeed, and the amount of work they've put in within their departments. In my opinion the vast majority of managers on here are lovely people who genuinely care about the success of their departments. We've entered a stage where we're seeing quite a few new members of managers, and it will be lovely to see them develop- since I guess it's really a thing you mould into over time. Interacting with members/staff alike is always a crucial part of the job, and listening to members feedback is always a must. It really is down to GM/Jin at the end of the day, and I think they really do generally get management decisions right.

• Allow Jamesy or someone else who can do techy stuff the same access as Jin or enough to be able to fix things.
This again could be very useful. The recent server issues were a pain yes, and could have caused a lot more damage to the reputation/practicality of the site than it actually did. There are often other little issues, such as staff getting IP banned (I've been there it was horrible!), and with Jin being the only one to undo this it can be a pain. I know Jins around a lot more now and so things will be dealt with a lot quicker, but over summer it could have been useful I guess.
• One new forum skin. Slim. Neutral colours. SMALL BANNER. Cute. For teenagers.
I think we have a lovely selection of Skins at the moment, and I think there's actually more choice now than in precious times. I think it could be a good idea to have a neutral skin for those who aren't into habbo/various colours, however I think this is probably something to look at after christmas and would probably be dependant on Jamesy, who already has a huge workload.

• Be more lenient with rules / scrap all rules apart from use common sense
Compared to this time last year, I think a lot of rules have gotten more lenient. Yes, some of the rules were a bit silly in the first place (like abbreviations avoiding the filter), however I think we're getting a nice balance of rules now, and on the whole rulebreaks seem to be fewer these days. Most of the current rules are common sense, and are designed to keep the forum a safe and enjoyable place to be. I think there are probably other little changes that could be made or perhaps reworked in a few cases, however I don't think that's a major concern at the moment.

[immense]

I have read all replies. I don't feel there is anything for me to reply to. Most people seem to be in agreement on the majority of ideas and of course the more controversial ones should be the subject of intense debate. Although, controversy is one way to keep people excited it can go horribly wrong. Take my mass unban suggestion - say all of a sudden everyone gets unbanned and the forum is swamped in porn - I'm sure management would then be criticised for letting these animals back. However, I think these are all risks worth taking. I know some of them are going to be split right down the middle - the rules is one of those.

My point about leniency. I got a usernote the other day and don't get me wrong it is more than valid but I think it's something Habbox should stop. I think the PMs are horrible, not the way they're worded or even what they do. I just think they can be so off-putting. For some reason, Habbox still has a reputation for being strict. I can safely say it isn't the strictest forum (HFFM oh my - don't even get me started). Look at this thread, http://www.clubhabboforum.net/showthread.php?t=328071 - there are a lot of users on there who still use HxF on there complaining. Those who didn't use it before but came over moaned about the warnings they got. Look at some of the things said too. If you said them on HxF you'd be in line for a two point bullying infraction. Those aren't even edited. I also think pointless posting should be heuwnbjdn.

Anyway, back to my usernote http://www.habboxforum.com/showthrea...26#post6773426 it was for that post (I think Amber is a wonderful and more than competent moderator btw). Yes, my post didn't add to the thread but it made someone laugh (well they replied 'lol') and it was clearly a joke. I think this is the sort of laid back mentality people are mentioning. Let us stray from the point and have a laugh a little bit. That is all people want.

Yes things have got more lenient but it doesn't have to stop there. When black people could use the same buses as white people - campaigners didn't stop there, they fought for more equality. OK, poor comparison, granted. I have told this story (too) many times. My first infraction was for double posting, you wouldn't even get a warning for this now. Yes, things are better. The thing people crave more than anything though on a teenage site is to have a laugh and be able to express themselves. All teenagers are the same in wanting to do this!

Skins are much better too but they still seem different. Again, look at clubhabbo it is perfect. Such a simple and sleek skin. No mess. HxF's have improved so much (thanks to Jamesy) but again because they have improved I don't think that should be an area that should be ticked off as being complete.

Also, I have no doubt the sceptics among you will think this thread is me trying to stroke my ego or get unbanned or something similar. As much as I love my ego being stroked and as much as I'd like to be unbanned my motive is completely innocent. I genuinely want to help Habbox improve and I felt by presenting some of my ideas to the community to get feedback was an ideal way of going about this.

Thank you to the people who have said some lovely things but for the record, I would never want to be staff again. I feel I can still help as a member.

[Sammeth.]

Just thinking about it, if for example Habbox did ask other foreign fansites if they want to have HxF as their forum, wouldn't we have to create forums on here for that site, or make the forums we have more general, and allow staff at those fansites a certain level of access or whatever? How would that aspect work? I guess that would be something to iron out if the idea was to be undertaken.

[Mrs.McCall]

Bananas.

I did read most of it but rather than going one by one.

I agreed with almost everything. I do think radical changes need making.

The one point I want to comment on is the differing content. I do think that's where Habbox lacks and I've said this time and time again. The job News does is great and I've seen a great rise in adding personal comment and this is widely promoted by Bolt660. But we need something different. I think Articles should be bought back I honestly do. I think a Teen Life section could still work. If Jin says no to advice then let's not do advice but rather personal experiences, personal tips so there's a full disclaimer that it isn't an endorsement.

There isn't enough on the site to enjoy. There's no reason to go on there other than News. There just isn't a major pull anymore. Everything is dying off. We need that something special, a hook and I think regular articles, maybe a well-written series that people will want to read and want to come back to. Let the News Reporters have blogs so we could have a Sports Commentator, Entertainment Commentator. TV reviews. Things that make people think "wonder what x has to say" or just to attract some sort of attention.

[Pyroka]

Just thinking about it, if for example Habbox did ask other foreign fansites if they want to have HxF as their forum, wouldn't we have to create forums on here for that site, or make the forums we have more general, and allow staff at those fansites a certain level of access or whatever? How would that aspect work? I guess that would be something to iron out if the idea was to be undertaken.

Yeah just seperate the forum in terms of HabboTimes stuff, HabboxForum stuff, and maybe a forum to mix them all up

[Inseriousity.]

I have read all replies. I don't feel there is anything for me to reply to. Most people seem to be in agreement on the majority of ideas and of course the more controversial ones should be the subject of intense debate. Although, controversy is one way to keep people excited it can go horribly wrong. Take my mass unban suggestion - say all of a sudden everyone gets unbanned and the forum is swamped in porn - I'm sure management would then be criticised for letting these animals back. However, I think these are all risks worth taking. I know some of them are going to be split right down the middle - the rules is one of those.

My point about leniency. I got a usernote the other day and don't get me wrong it is more than valid but I think it's something Habbox should stop. I think the PMs are horrible, not the way they're worded or even what they do. I just think they can be so off-putting. For some reason, Habbox still has a reputation for being strict. I can safely say it isn't the strictest forum (HFFM oh my - don't even get me started). Look at this thread, http://www.clubhabboforum.net/showthread.php?t=328071 - there are a lot of users on there who still use HxF on there complaining. Those who didn't use it before but came over moaned about the warnings they got. Look at some of the things said too. If you said them on HxF you'd be in line for a two point bullying infraction. Those aren't even edited. I also think pointless posting should be heuwnbjdn.

Anyway, back to my usernote http://www.habboxforum.com/showthrea...26#post6773426 it was for that post (I think Amber is a wonderful and more than competent moderator btw). Yes, my post didn't add to the thread but it made someone laugh (well they replied 'lol') and it was clearly a joke. I think this is the sort of laid back mentality people are mentioning. Let us stray from the point and have a laugh a little bit. That is all people want.

Yes things have got more lenient but it doesn't have to stop there. When black people could use the same buses as white people - campaigners didn't stop there, they fought for more equality. OK, poor comparison, granted. I have told this story (too) many times. My first infraction was for double posting, you wouldn't even get a warning for this now. Yes, things are better. The thing people crave more than anything though on a teenage site is to have a laugh and be able to express themselves. All teenagers are the same in wanting to do this!

Skins are much better too but they still seem different. Again, look at clubhabbo it is perfect. Such a simple and sleek skin. No mess. HxF's have improved so much (thanks to Jamesy) but again because they have improved I don't think that should be an area that should be ticked off as being complete.

Also, I have no doubt the sceptics among you will think this thread is me trying to stroke my ego or get unbanned or something similar. As much as I love my ego being stroked and as much as I'd like to be unbanned my motive is completely innocent. I genuinely want to help Habbox improve and I felt by presenting some of my ideas to the community to get feedback was an ideal way of going about this.

Thank you to the people who have said some lovely things but for the record, I would never want to be staff again. I feel I can still help as a member.

if it's good porn, we wouldn't complain

Just to make sure Oli doesn't use that awful mod edit on me again... there's a rather jokey complaint in the complaints section about someone feeling like they're being targeted (Richie I think?). While that couldn't really be serious, I think that people could probably make a strong case for over-moderation of their posts imo. Moderators know the persistent rule-breakers and in an attempt to boost logs, they can see x y z has posted, x y z have a history of bad behaviour so I'll just check this thread to see if they've done anything. Natural human behaviour tbh but does go against the whole leniency principle

[Pyroka]

if it's gay porn, I wouldn't complain

fixed ur post lolol

[immense]

if it's good porn, we wouldn't complain

fixed ur post lolol

I admit. I laughed.

[Inseriousity.]

fixed ur post lolol

dont get your hopes up babes, I still have standards

[Tintinnabulate]

I am afraid to say Jake that most of your ideas have been suggested several times before and they act like they care but nothing ever happens.