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[Kyle]

It would be nice to see Bethie in a management position

glad you agree.

What do you suggest departments should to do that is "fun"? Major events that combine the departments of some speak? I don't think we should start scrapping departments such as a news. It may not be read like it used to but there are still people out there who do read it. Even certain members of Habbo Staff read it when it mentions something that has got their attention. [@]@Bolt660[/@], [@]@Nuxty[/@]

Okay no need to scrap news, maybe that was a bit drastic but I am sure there are ways to make it more accessible. Some of the articles there are actually quite well written and some are even interesting ([@]@Grig)[/@]. Just want somewhere else to read them other than the habbox site as. Anybody remember the habbohut teen magazine? Probably not... but it was really quite good! Here's a link so you can see how it worked:http://frankenteddy.deviantart.com/a...sue-1-61414807
I'm sure Mathew's gossip column could be implemented there too :p

I think this problem has came up before about them being too many Habbox staff members in events but you don't just mention staff, you mention users that you have seen in the Help Desk and the forum I'm guessing?

I have no problem with current users going to events, that is what they are there for. but when half of the room like you say is habbox staff members and 9/10 of the other half is current members it doesnt really leave much space for potential new members to play. bigger events with more notice (aka not the host posting on the forum 2 minutes after the event was due to start and wondering why their room is empty) would give room for plenty of users to participate.

Also @ all events staff - don't rely so heavily on the holodice for your events. Bingo, higher or lower, pod race, "don't roll a 6" (didn't this used to be a way to scam people at giveaways to get your room popular?) to name but a few. Look at some of today's events:

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Games of chance are good fun every once in a while but when the majority of events consist of the host/player rolling a dice to decide their fate, it gets kind of boring. More events that require at least some degree of 'skill' please? [@]@Mathew[/@]

In terms of the Official Habbox Rooms: We still have them but I need to remind Mike that they need to be sorted out and managed again. I think it's time we allow people to send in their rooms and if they are popular and any good we can use them to advertise Habbox more. We do have a Trade room on there that seems to get popular on a daily basis owned by Varnius which has advertisement of Habbox inside the room via the wired. It's time for that page to be sorted and get rid of ones that aren't being used or no longer open and allow people to send their rooms in to become an official habbox room. [@]@Inseriousity[/@].

It's all well and good having people's rooms on a list of 'official rooms' but when they don't promote habbox in any way... what's the point? Varnius' room has no linkage whatsoever to habbox as far as I can see from the outside and the wired inside that links to habbox.com is drowned out by the other 19 lines of wired telling people how to buy rights and to rate the room. I know Zak also has an official habbox room but the part of the room name that states that it is * HABBOX OFFICIAL * is cut off so nobody really knows that it is. Perhaps he should take a leaf from Varnius' book and add a line of wired inside too. Roxy 619 has and official room that nobody visits, as does jas,. I think what you need to do is get into contact with people who actually have popular rooms and talk about advertising rather than sticking HABBOX OFFICIAL on empty rooms just because people want some recognition for a room theyve built. Pigperson has a great room with lots of links to habbox but it too is unfortunately baron. Some of these rooms need promotion not just on the habbox archive (aka habbox.com) but also in the forums where people do actually look.

[Red]

Bethie would be fab as radio management. I don't think the current management are on enough at all. The month Bethie was gone, the radio just went downhill. Radio was offline practically every time I looked or was just people streaming. I tuned into hffm to listen to rys shows and then listened to their the voice comp and they are of such a better standard tbh.


In hxhd, I do advertise events to new people that come in looking for help, asking for ways to earn credits etc. I think it would be pointless to advertise events though because it would just empty the desk and fill events with staff and habbox users (since they are the ones that hang there).

[xxMATTGxx]

glad you agree.


Okay no need to scrap news, maybe that was a bit drastic but I am sure there are ways to make it more accessible. Some of the articles there are actually quite well written and some are even interesting ([@]@Grig)[/@]. Just want somewhere else to read them other than the habbox site as. Anybody remember the habbohut teen magazine? Probably not... but it was really quite good! Here's a link so you can see how it worked:http://frankenteddy.deviantart.com/a...sue-1-61414807
I'm sure Mathew's gossip column could be implemented there too :p



It's all well and good having people's rooms on a list of 'official rooms' but when they don't promote habbox in any way... what's the point? Varnius' room has no linkage whatsoever to habbox as far as I can see from the outside and the wired inside that links to habbox.com is drowned out by the other 19 lines of wired telling people how to buy rights and to rate the room. I know Zak also has an official habbox room but the part of the room name that states that it is * HABBOX OFFICIAL * is cut off so nobody really knows that it is. Perhaps he should take a leaf from Varnius' book and add a line of wired inside too. Roxy 619 has and official room that nobody visits, as does jas,. I think what you need to do is get into contact with people who actually have popular rooms and talk about advertising rather than sticking HABBOX OFFICIAL on empty rooms just because people want some recognition for a room theyve built. Pigperson has a great room with lots of links to habbox but it too is unfortunately baron. Some of these rooms need promotion not just on the habbox archive (aka habbox.com) but also in the forums where people do actually look.

I really like that magazine! If we had some people who had skills in that area such as flash and able to put something like that together then that would be quite awesome indeed. In terms of the official rooms: I did have in my head when replying back to you about actually going round to popular rooms and speaking them to see if they wanted to be apart of the "Official Habbox Room List".

[Grig]

I really like that magazine! If we had some people who had skills in that area such as flash and able to put something like that together then that would be quite awesome indeed. In terms of the official rooms: I did have in my head when replying back to you about actually going round to popular rooms and speaking them to see if they wanted to be apart of the "Official Habbox Room List".

Yeh this is always a fantastic idea. I used to write for one of these years and years ago at some fansite. If written well it does hold for an entertaining read. It could even mean more people will be interested in joining the department and what not because it incorporates elements from the now defunct articles department.

I do agree with Kyle that it is things like this that would make Habbox News more entertaining, giving it an edge, because sadly people are now demanding more as the same old gets boring and there are other sources such as Habbo or BBC etc. to read them at. This is why when writing real life for example, I try and twist things by making it more entertaining whilst still keeping it strictly 100% factual. Although there is a boundary not to be crossed of what would be classed as news, and simply not news and a guide to something, which would then be outside the news departments domain and I have seen a bit of that happen recently.

[Samantha]

Ok I haven't read all this but I never knew Jess and Sct weren't on Habbo/HxL enough.

I am sure I have told [@]@grig[/@] or someone like that many a time that managers should do what their staff do (if you understand that)

What I mean is, event managers should be hosting events (I never see [@]@jurv[/@] hosting one sorry if you do) whereas Mathew does one every once in a while and covers them.

HxL managers should be on HxL more as said in this thread but as I have never been in the dept I am not going to judge.

News Managers should be posting news and the last one I saw a news manager post was about snowstorm coming back [@]@Bolt660[/@] [@]@Nuxty[/@]

[@]@Zuth[/@] does content, [@]@Sct[/@] [@]@Brandon[/@] do moderation, I and [@]@pigperson[/@] do rare values as we have to update the heads values and [@]@alex3213[/@] does competitions. So I guess it is more forum based rather than habbo based who do jobs, the only habbo person I see doing her job so much is Rosy, she is the help desk loads and shows that managers can be bothered to do the work, she is an active person!

Also with HxL about about [@]@publicised[/@] being the assistant manager, why not have 2 like you did with [@]@lindsay[/@] and [@]@sct[/@], yeah they were different country djs but does bethie sleep at night she sometimes is up until about 3am, again, someone who wants to do the work, having HxL's best interests at heart. I speak to someone on msn and they say that [@]@Sct[/@] isn't as active enough now, I agree, not saying he is a bad dj or mod or should step down I don't think anyone should be pressured into that but he isn't as active as he used to be and I feel if scott cant handle it he will know when to stop and take a step back.

Also I never tune into HabboxLive, most of the time (if I have my sound on) I will mute it when I am doing rare values, not because the djs are of bad quality it's the repetive songs, the same djs over and over etc, plus it lags me. I will tune in if someone realy wants me to or if I fancy listening to something but I have grown up and after listening to it lots when I first came it does drag for you.

[beth]

i have said for a while and asked whether there would be a chance of strictly real-life news writers, because i for one wouldn't mind writing none-habbo news (because i find writing interesting anyway). a lot of the other fansites have these "media writers" who cover music/tv etcetc and they seem very popular, why can't we implement something like that?

i like the magazine idea. i think it could be a way of getting more people into news and freeing the habbox.com site up of walls of text.

[Grig]

[@]@Samanfa[/@] it was Gemma not Lindsey LOL and the reason that happened was because she was international and the Head DJ position was simply not working out .

@Publicised, we had that with entertainment and technology back when I was still management, then it kinda all merged into one general real life thing.

[Samantha]

[@]@grig[/@] awks I remember gemma now LOL.

[Grig]

[@]@grig[/@] awks I remember gemma now LOL.

I do agree it would be nice for all managers to contribute to the crucial roles of the dept. I remember at news, that there was plenty of time to write news from other duties. I can't speak for the other departments, although I know HxL sometimes has so much to plan and such a large staffing team that it is more difficult for them to find the extra commitment time to DJ- although that too would be great, like I remember they had a nice chart show that they both did for 2 hours a week .


and Beth [@]@Publicised[/@] cause my mention to your post didn't work in my previous reply !!! This is in ref. to my previous reply too about specialized reporters LOL.

[GoldenMerc]

Not going to lie, It's been like this for a while now, only decent DJ's i actually hear are Kerby, Gina and Bethie...
Like the rest ether have the voice of a 9 year old or rap on the radio....
The managers should be setting a example of DJing, yet its left to Gina and Kerby to rack in the hours like they do.
People are saying why not have 2 assistant managers, Why not just have 1 decent manager who can atleast manage the radio, and actually DJ from week to week aswel? Instead of just having sitting ducks, scott does brilliant as a forum manager, but as a DJ, i haven't heard him DJ in yonks... and i've never once heard Jess DJ...