Have I missed something?

[Samantha]

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

If we're having 3 sides to content then there's no point in the merge, even the managers said that before it even went through, that's why they decided on two sides; if you're just going to have content (news) content whatever and content (graphics) then they can just stay separate and have managers that actually know what they're doing and staff who don't think they'd be forced to do other jobs than what they applied for.

[AgnesIO]

If we're having 3 sides to content then there's no point in the merge, even the managers said that before it even went through, that's why they decided on two sides; if you're just going to have content (news) content whatever and content (graphics) then they can just stay separate and have managers that actually know what they're doing and staff who don't think they'd be forced to do other jobs than what they applied for.

I still think we are going too far with all this knowledge stuff. As a general rule, the people on Habbox are all amateurs - they have no professional background, or superior knowledge. Not saying we need professionals, but you guys are making it sound like managers are exclusive academics lol

I don't think they should be forced to do so - but I can see (certainly for wiki and graphics) the benefit of the two departments working together is obvious.

[Samantha]

I still think we are going too far with all this knowledge stuff. As a general rule, the people on Habbox are all amateurs - they have no professional background, or superior knowledge. Not saying we need professionals, but you guys are making it sound like managers are exclusive academics lol

I don't think they should be forced to do so - but I can see (certainly for wiki and graphics) the benefit of the two departments working together is obvious.

How is it obvious? Working on the Wiki for near enough a year now I have never needed the graphics department? You're calling it Wiki yet it's content, we only need graphics for pages that we couldn't update for ages or the pages we had to rewrite for no reason.

[Chippiewill]

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.

Even if you are correct it is frankly inconsequential. Most people who do content design don't want to do news, most people who do news don't want to do content. There is literally ZERO purpose in pissing everyone off because it *could* work.

[Adam]

Please people won't somebody think of the children and take your bickering to your hidden forums it's all getting too emotional!

[Zelda]

then how would people like laura and grig contribute to this????

[MKR&*42]

It was a silly idea to merge all the depts. I vaguely understood why content + news, but not graphics.

As said before, content & news require different writing styles and completely different jobs - if someone had wanted to be a content designer and a news reporter, they would have applied for both.

Bad decisions one after another.

[AgnesIO]

How is it obvious? Working on the Wiki for near enough a year now I have never needed the graphics department? You're calling it Wiki yet it's content, we only need graphics for pages that we couldn't update for ages or the pages we had to rewrite for no reason.

What exactly do the graphics department do then?

[Kardan]

What exactly do the graphics department do then?

I asked this and got told that basically they make the banner whenever Habbox does one of their big competitions, (Christmas/Summer Spectacular), so I asked 'Surely that means they have like, 3 jobs a year?' and got told 'Pretty much'. And considering no new content gets put on the site because of no V7, there's nothing to do on there either.

[AgnesIO]

I asked this and got told that basically they make the banner whenever Habbox does one of their big competitions, (Christmas/Summer Spectacular), so I asked 'Surely that means they have like, 3 jobs a year?' and got told 'Pretty much'. And considering no new content gets put on the site because of no V7, there's nothing to do on there either.

Basically the right to a user title then lol (surely the graphics dept should design these, but wasn't there a competition to design the last ones? :L)