People should have to be on the forum a certain ammount of time before...

[Mr-Trainor]

I disagree. Someone may have been using Habbox for 1 year but only using the forum for 1 week. They shouldn't then be denied a position in a department just because they have only been on the forum for 1 week. This obviously does not apply to the Forum department though!

[Calvin]

Guy applies for a job, they look at the application and think "Oh, he's just came and applied, never seen him before - No" I don't think so. It will just put people off.

[Inseriousity.]

I just think it doesn't look very profesional. Oh look, a habbox live dj, oh wait they have only been part of the habbox community for one week and they have three posts, one of which is a welcome thread. It's unprofesional,like how desperate fansites are run.

It's not unprofessional to hire someone where it appears that they've only been a part of the community for a week. While it's the main part of the community, the community is not exclusive to the forum. There's HabboxLive and Habbo where they get involved in that community instead, especially the DJs. What may be a user with only 3 posts and a welcome thread here is actually someone who's been listening to HabboxLive, going to HxL parties for far longer. As I type this, there are probably people sitting in HxHD who have never been on the forum even though they're aware of Habbox and they've been involved with the Habbo side of things for a while.

Managers hire on potential and that potential is not found in the corner of the application with the 'Posts: 3' or 'Join Date: Nov 2010', it's found inside the application. You have mentioned how you haven't failed an application yet and that's probably because managers, while they hire on potential, if they can avoid it, they'd prefer to hire on someone who's active and integrated into the community already. As this is the case, I don't see the need for a rule to be put in place.

[sammy]

A really bad idea imo, I only applied for the forum because I was going to apply as a DJ and same as Robbie, I probably wouldn't have applied if I knew I had to "get involved" with the forum when I didn't really want to at that time. It'd be ridiculous to turn down a good application because someone had never posted before, especially in a department like HxL which doesn't really require you to post on here anyway.

If a staff member doesn't want to post on here I don't really think they should be forced to; sometimes the forum is a bit intimidating especially for younger users and I think if they don't want to get involved on here then, as long as they're not forum staff obv, they shouldn't have to .

[Richie]

I agree but in fairness they are gagging for staff

[Mathew]

While the forum is considered to be at the centre - the meeting point - of all three Habbox sites; they are all different and seperate.

Doesn't this just lead back to the old argument that "the forum is being treated as the main site when it should be Habbox.com"?

[Gina]

I think this is an idea, If you dont know anything about habbox and you became something like hxhd and someone asks about hxf how are they suppose to know?

[Jin]

This is our official stance on this.

Only forum moderators are required to have experience on the forum before applying, other members of staff are not required to have registered on the forum before hand as it does not change their skill or ability to do their job.

My first job with Habbox was as a writer (for the now closed Articles department) prior to that, despite that I used habbox for its rare values, I never used the forum as there was nothing I needed from it.

Whether a person has a forum account or not it wouldn't make a difference to their skill, an example of this would be our lovely forum manager and general manager's recent dire attempt at a radio show despite both experience forumers and dedicated staff.

If staff aren't dedicated enough and by that I mean they don't meet the minimum weekly requirements for their position then they will be warned and subsequently dismissed or in terms of a trialist they will fail their trial.

In terms of the help desk, no member of staff is expected to know everything. They do have the option to say "I am not sure" or words to that effect and can go find out themselves.

Restricting staff to just forum members would severely restrict our potential applicants and would likely leave is short staffed.

Thanks for the feedback

[Sacha]

I agree with Jin, if you turn down a good DJ because they haven't used forum for long then you could in fact lose a valuable member of staff to another fansite, it's pointles.

[The Don]

Ok, fair enough, it shouldn't limit the applicants but ALL staff who have an active role on habbo should have a minimum weekly posting requirement.