Have I missed something?

[AlexJRiley]

Fired and shoved onto the DNHL then thrown into jail with the key thrown away.

Please... dear god please!

[Chippiewill]

If they are correct then they shouldn't be was my argument. Content shouldn't be cold, indifferent and seperate from the reader which seems to be the common theme here. It still needs to capture the reader's attention and it needs to keep them engaged.

Go read any page on Wikipedia, absolutely ZERO of them will refer to the reader at any time. It's how wiki content should be written and it's how I enforced it.

Frankly though it's not just writing styles, in the Content department I didn't care if people didn't do work on a week to week basis as long as they did their share in the long-run. This isn't viable with News, news is all about being on the ball, doing some investigative journalism and being regular and consistent. The processes in researching and creating content are entirely different.

[Inseriousity.]

There are ways of engaging people without the use of the pronouns 'you' etc. Cold indifference makes Habbox look clinical and out-of-touch with the market we are attracting: younger teenagers. If we are being frank, perhaps it was the lack of attention to people not doing work that has allowed the department to implode from the inside. If you don't care, your staff won't care. Say, for the sake of debate, that this is true also, it still isn't really an argument against a merge as it could easily be accomodated within that framework.

[Zelda]

Mike I think the point you are missing is that if people were interested in doing any content work they would have applied for content already, and a lot of news reporters will have no interest in content, often quote, "Finding the wiki pointless". Tbh it's the biggest flaw of the merge really.

[AgnesIO]

Mike I think the point you are missing is that if people were interested in doing any content work they would have applied for content already, and a lot of news reporters will have no interest in content, often quote, "Finding the wiki pointless". Tbh it's the biggest flaw of the merge really.

It can't have actually merged though? You are still News Manager... - surely you should be Assistant Content Manager (News)? Like how AGM's are done.

Just call the staff; Content (News) and Content (whatever the other side is) - a partial merge is a good idea to me. Gives you guys the benefit of having both departments - news MUST do news stuff, and the wiki people MUST do wiki - but let them help in the other depts in they wish to? Can't see any problems with that at all?

[Grig]

It can't have actually merged though? You are still News Manager... - surely you should be Assistant Content Manager (News)? Like how AGM's are done.

Just call the staff; Content (News) and Content (whatever the other side is) - a partial merge is a good idea to me. Gives you guys the benefit of having both departments - news MUST do news stuff, and the wiki people MUST do wiki - but let them help in the other depts in they wish to? Can't see any problems with that at all?

Why try to derail news, when the foundation wasn't broken, it just needed a few revamps here and there, but putting it as one department is certainly a step in the wrong direction.

So far I haven't seen positive reasons for a merge, but rather one or two saying good idea etc.

[Samantha]

It can't have actually merged though? You are still News Manager... - surely you should be Assistant Content Manager (News)? Like how AGM's are done.

Just call the staff; Content (News) and Content (whatever the other side is) - a partial merge is a good idea to me. Gives you guys the benefit of having both departments - news MUST do news stuff, and the wiki people MUST do wiki - but let them help in the other depts in they wish to? Can't see any problems with that at all?

We spoke about that, but why have news, content and graphics sides to content, there would be no point to the merge then as it'd just be the same with 3 departments.

[AgnesIO]

Why try to derail news, when the foundation wasn't broken, it just needed a few revamps here and there, but putting it as one department is certainly a step in the wrong direction.

So far I haven't seen positive reasons for a merge, but rather one or two saying good idea etc.

Were we waiting for V7 for these revamps? At least someone actually have the initiative to instigate change - whether you disagree with it or not.

[xxMATTGxx]

Were we waiting for V7 for these revamps? At least someone actually have the initiative to instigate change - whether you disagree with it or not.

The only reason to ever wait for V7 if the actual changes require coding to be done. If it doesn't then there is no reason to wait.

[AgnesIO]

We spoke about that, but why have news, content and graphics sides to content, there would be no point to the merge then as it'd just be the same with 3 departments.

Because;

News is content.
Graphics are content.
Wiki is content.

They belong with each other. Certainly wiki and graphics - I would have said it is beneficial. Surely it makes it easier to create really great content if they are all interconnected?

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The only reason to ever wait for V7 if the actual changes require coding to be done. If it doesn't then there is no reason to wait.

I know :L I was just expecting someone to eventually state that it was all coming in V7 lol