Habbox Diversity

[Ekelektra]

SNQ is on at 3am-6am in Australia depending on where you are.
I don't think there should be two quizzes as people have said there's a VIP limit
I guess it's just unfortuante that Habbo merged and suddenly all the fansites had to cater for international users.

[Sharon]

No there shouldn't be two quizzes and that's it. The majority are still and always will be UK based. The 7PM slot also works for Americans (well that's what it said on the previous page) and just because there's a handful of Australians flittering about doesn't mean we should lose out members by changing the time.

If you think about it, we also have a handful of people from Asia now too. You just can't cater for everybody, there are also other ways to win VIP. To most people Habbox will always be UK based.

[Hopeless]

I don't think there should be two SNQs as the prize is VIP and we have quotas, etc. However moving it back an hour or two couldn't hurt. The thing is... I'm American and I am able to come to the SNQ every week. It's not aridiculously early time for anyone in the US (I'm not sure about Australia though).

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[HotelUser]

No there shouldn't be two quizzes and that's it. The majority are still and always will be UK based. The 7PM slot also works for Americans (well that's what it said on the previous page) and just because there's a handful of Australians flittering about doesn't mean we should lose out members by changing the time.

If you think about it, we also have a handful of people from Asia now too. You just can't cater for everybody, there are also other ways to win VIP. To most people Habbox will always be UK based.

Though true to an extent that doesn't necessarily mean we shouldn't try to accommodate for as many people as possible. As Kay said it probably wouldn't hurt to push the quiz back one hour and she's absolutely right, it wouldn't hurt. Another problem with quizes that I always experienced with HxHD was that many folks would make the questions oriented around the UK, politics, football, or other topics really only UKers know the answers to. This is priority in my opinion for something that we still have to stop doing. Questions in a quiz should be non regional related so asking football questions, or questions about British television should not be happening, because there's no way the majority of us in North America will know anything about that.

[sophiethenerd]

Though true to an extent that doesn't necessarily mean we shouldn't try to accommodate for as many people as possible. As Kay said it probably wouldn't hurt to push the quiz back one hour and she's absolutely right, it wouldn't hurt. Another problem with quizes that I always experienced with HxHD was that many folks would make the questions oriented around the UK, politics, football, or other topics really only UKers know the answers to. This is priority in my opinion for something that we still have to stop doing. Questions in a quiz should be non regional related so asking football questions, or questions about British television should not be happening, because there's no way the majority of us in North America will know anything about that.

Thing is, questions are hard enough to write anyway And if you have to make sure all questions are appropriate for all cultures, you end up with a Geography,Maths and Habbox quiz. And in a Habbox quiz you could argue it was unfair for newer users who might not know all the managers names and so on.
In an ideal world we would have events round the clock and questions that a person from Antartica could get .(If they spoke English ) But that is never going to happen I'm afraid.

[HotelUser]

Thing is, questions are hard enough to write anyway And if you have to make sure all questions are appropriate for all cultures, you end up with a Geography,Maths and Habbox quiz. And in a Habbox quiz you could argue it was unfair for newer users who might not know all the managers names and so on.
In an ideal world we would have events round the clock and questions that a person from Antartica could get .(If they spoke English ) But that is never going to happen I'm afraid.

You're right it is hard to come up with questions but asking football questions, or questions about things which are clearly UK only should be a giant thing to avoid doing whilst conducting a quiz.

[Samantha]

To be honest I feel there is no need to move it from where it is now. Yes Australians can't really come on for it but they do get DJ shows and some events when it's prime time for them? Heck sometimes there are a lot later on then there is in the day so in that sense you can't really complain. If Aussie's want to win VIP then enter competitions? A few hours later is ok but not like 11/12 because I know for a fact I wouldn't be able to come on and win Sharon VIP ofc! However, 9pm is good because I think it's a round time for many people and as many of you have said you can't please everyone.

With the questions, you need to think outside the box, go to trivia races or quizzes now and there are tons of all-rounder question topics.

GAW, Stop The bus, Habbox (however, if people think it's unfair to have Habbox questions in HABBOX events then what they doing there? No offence but it's Habbox and surely there should be Habbox based questions). Fastest Typer, Furni Mission, Geography, etc. That's 6 topics and can double them up and have some more beside.

[Alex3213]

In regards to questions, I am totally in agreement with Dave: questions related to the UK, or America or Canada or Australia even, is a big no-no. However I think we have to remember it's a quiz, and not some stupid, pathetic, lame attempt of a quiz where you're asking to write a 10 letter word starting with the letter P. Sure, if that's going to be an event, then feel free but I think as a quiz they're not what a quiz should be about.

Furthermore I don't know how much it changed but there were times in the past where the same question was used... over, and over, again. There's so many questions you can make up, ranging in difficulty, so I don't understand why this has to be such a big problem because it can easily be sorted out!

[GommeInc]

You're right it is hard to come up with questions but asking football questions, or questions about things which are clearly UK only should be a giant thing to avoid doing whilst conducting a quiz.

The only thing a multi-cultural quiz can talk about is popular music and maybe sports. Politics wise some countries lack interests politically and culturally in places like America where interest in Europe only exists if Obama is in the area. They're incredibly difficult to produce, so you're better off having just the one quiz based on popular culture in the UK (where the majority of Habbox users come from) or at most two quizzes aimed towards specific countries e.g. UK Quiz for Thursday, US Quiz for Friday (whatever you wish). You'd be clutching at straws to find interesting things to include in quizzes otherwise.

I can't see how Habbo quizzes can be that fun anyway The best quizzes are ones that play music samples and have you guess the title of the song or the show the theme tune relates to, or show a picture of part of a flag, landmark etc. that you have to guess or find out. Also, people can cheat with Habbo quizzes - you've got the internet.

[HotelUser]

The only thing a multi-cultural quiz can talk about is popular music and maybe sports. Politics wise some countries lack interests politically and culturally in places like America where interest in Europe only exists if Obama is in the area. They're incredibly difficult to produce, so you're better off having just the one quiz based on popular culture in the UK (where the majority of Habbox users come from) or at most two quizzes aimed towards specific countries e.g. UK Quiz for Thursday, US Quiz for Friday (whatever you wish). You'd be clutching at straws to find interesting things to include in quizzes otherwise.

Asking a question about Football or British film means basically only people from the UK have a fair shot at getting the question correct. Sure you'll always be excluding someone based on the sort of question you ask but football and British film questions are massively excluding a huge group of people from being able to have a fair stab at the question. Simple Math, Habbo Questions, Hollywood film (ones like Harry Potter or Batman that are internationally popular not just in one place where as British Film is), general knowledge, international current affairs are just several more broad categories to ask questions in than just British sports or TV because the reason a user wouldn't know the answer to my categories listed wouldn't often be regionally based. It was a rule we had several years ago which outlined that we stray away from questions oriented around one region. It's a very fair request, and is something I would presume our quizers should still abide by today.