Full Habbox feedback woo

[dbgtz]

I'm not sure what's been said and I can't really be bothered to flick through all the pages, I have to say the music has no variety and I think I'd tune in more if it went beyond the likes of the chart and One Direction. Though saying that, I'm not suggesting every show needs to have this amazing variety but allocated slots dedicated to a certain type of music could attract more people. I think I remember someone doing Doctor Who music for an hour one time and that was quite well received IIRC.

Also I think it would be more entertaining to get more duos. A conversation is far more entertaining than listening to someone merely recite a part of their day in my opinion.

[xxMATTGxx]

To be honest, the whole international side of Habbox is a joke and is not taken seriously, apart starting to at HabboxLive in recent weeks, where we were seeing an increase in international DJs and listeners. The rest is all backwards and no one even cares to fix it.

To prove my point, let's go back to 208 or 9 when Bomb-Head was Events Manager. You had a rank called International Events Organizer and there were applications exclusively for internationals, much like there are on HabboxLive. Now, nothing? International events are a joke and no one even attempts to make it better. I was DJing earlier on today at 2 am UK time, was at an event and barely anyone was there. Apart from a few regulars and staff who were mostly either in the host or VIP areas.

Forum has an international presence now with at least an international mod, which is great, but would be good if not everything occurs during prime time. Would be great that the forum did not die overnight UK time and there was stuff happening.

Personally, all community departments, particularly events and competitions should work together to push each other during international times, because I remember in the past, I think this was around 2 years ago, HabboxLive had a large number of international staff. Yet, the other departments did not bother to help out in international times at all and would just take benefit from one department at least trying.

I can go on about other issues, but find this one to be a problem at Habbox, where things are even going backwards, not forwards with ints.

I had an idea about this the other week but not sure if it is any good. The basic idea was for Habbox to have like a "recruitment event/week" that would be aimed specifically at people from outside the UK. I am not sure how good it would be or if it would be successful but could be used a base and then other ideas thrown into it. Still needs work and other ideas to make it good though.

Funnily enough this all started imagining a bunch of Habbos carrying flags like they do at the Olympics. Oh look, another job for the Graphics Dept.

I suggested introducing a international management to events because Habbox dies at night time but the reply from events management was "i stay up to 4am some nights so its not really needed" which is a joke. You need international people managing international things. Habbox had a much better international department before the merge with HabboxWorld etc, yet now...nothing lol..


I think it was@Bolt660; who mentioned that "habbo activity is decreasing, i don't think that can be used as an excuse when the two other big fansites manage to fill their rooms constantly with people wanting to play their events.

Also do management of events even Habbo much? I'm being asked daily in my Jungle Run or being added by event hosts, head events hosts or just other staff from different fansites asking do i want to become an events host. Even when i go to shops and if i buy a large amount of furni people have asked me would i be interested in hosting events at HFFM or THISHABBO, all i see for Habbox is "go check habbo.com/jobs for info! "

International Management is a good idea but you need the staff and people before you can put that into place.

[-:Undertaker:-]

I had an idea about this the other week but not sure if it is any good. The basic idea was for Habbox to have like a "recruitment event/week" that would be aimed specifically at people from outside the UK. I am not sure how good it would be or if it would be successful but could be used a base and then other ideas thrown into it. Still needs work and other ideas to make it good though.

A recruitment drive for British staff would also be a good idea for any departments struggling with staffing (like Rare Values has been lately). I know in the older days I used to more or less attempt to get trading friends I knew into the department where they basically walked in without having to go through the usual posting reports in a public forum - because I knew from my own experience that they were good which is why they used to virtually sent me reports over the console.

I think if we know somebody is good enough whether it's trading or something else, we ought to get them into staff as quickly as possible without the fuss of applications and usual procedure. Sometimes it works and they stay, sometimes they don't - but i'm sure there's plenty out there on the hotel who would make great events staff and great values staff.

[e5]

I'd make amazing events staff if I had the furni I have been there before but had to resign cos I ran out of furniture lol

[Foregetfuhl]

Theres nothing to stop Habbox having a recruitment fair and it can easily be done for both UK and Int times. We're relying heavily on Grig at the moment to pick up OC times whilst other Head DJs and regular DJs are focusing on NA. Myself and Mark have been pushing for more international people to join and are doing things to make sure that it will happen. This would mean UK staff won't need to stream at silly times in the morning and we can have people effectively DJing their own slots with no problems. Ultimately we want an Assistant Radio Manager (International) with mark moving in as specifically targeting EU. I personally think that would be a step in the right direction as we need to push forward to couple with the fact that Habbo.com is completely worldwide. I'd like to get it to the stage that we have 2 teams of each NA, OC and UK and hopefully providing we keep pushing that will happen.

[Aaron]

Also, I did say a while back, that the cause for most of these issues was having seperate departments essentially competing over the same thing. Clearly, merging is out of the question, but getting teams to work together more would help a lot.

I said a while back that Events/HxL need to work together more, and News/Content/Graphics do as well. I'm not sure what happened to the 'Guides' staff, but as people saw from the massive thread that was created on it, News and Content wanted it for themselves and didn't fancy working together (Even though content is pretty much a subset of News right now?).


[Inb4 people tell me 'WELL ITZ A GOOD FING U R NOT IN CHARGE!!11SHIFT]


If I was in charge, I would restructure everything, something like this:

Client Department (Events/HxL/HxHD)
Forum Department (Comps/Moderation/Debates)
Site Department (News/Content/Graphics/Guides/Rare Values)

It would make there be less managers, more staff would work with other staff. There would be no quotas, and no limits either. So if somebody wants to do X competitions a week, let them. Let it be a lot more fluid. Don't need quotas, simply give warnings to people that aren't putting in enough effort. Some people are bound to do more than others. And this doesn't mean, 'All events staff have to become DJs, all Graphics staff have to do Rare Values', but staff can easily do work for similiar departments then need be, rather than 4/5/6+ managers having to keep an eye on the same staff member.

Three managers, each with an assistant, so only 6 management positions. All report to the Community Manager, who reports to the General Manager. So essentially just 8 management positions, plus Jin and Sierk.

I really like this idea, split into separate sections. Like you said client, forum, site could work well if it was implemented well and the right management were chosen to run each of them. Most fansite's do tend to have Community Managers now which could also be interesting, ours is Mike. (Ours is just worded differently) but I do think the separate departments should be something looked at. That way it'd be less departments (less managers & assistants) more staff can be put into; Community, Forum, Site.

If it was structured properly, it could certainly work out well and get in the audience that Habbox are thriving for.

[Kardan]

I really like this idea, split into separate sections. Like you said client, forum, site could work well if it was implemented well and the right management were chosen to run each of them. Most fansite's do tend to have Community Managers now which could also be interesting, ours is Mike. (Ours is just worded differently) but I do think the separate departments should be something looked at. That way it'd be less departments (less managers & assistants) more staff can be put into; Community, Forum, Site.

If it was structured properly, it could certainly work out well and get in the audience that Habbox are thriving for.

As much as I'm glad you like my idea, it will never be implemented in a million years

Management barely want to do small changes like are being suggested here, so sadly a complete overhaul of how the staff departments work will never happen

[nvrspk4]

If I was in charge, I would restructure everything, something like this:

Client Department (Events/HxL/HxHD)
Forum Department (Comps/Moderation/Debates)
Site Department (News/Content/Graphics/Guides/Rare Values)

It would make there be less managers, more staff would work with other staff. There would be no quotas, and no limits either. So if somebody wants to do X competitions a week, let them. Let it be a lot more fluid. Don't need quotas, simply give warnings to people that aren't putting in enough effort. Some people are bound to do more than others. And this doesn't mean, 'All events staff have to become DJs, all Graphics staff have to do Rare Values', but staff can easily do work for similiar departments then need be, rather than 4/5/6+ managers having to keep an eye on the same staff member.

Three managers, each with an assistant, so only 6 management positions. All report to the Community Manager, who reports to the General Manager. So essentially just 8 management positions, plus Jin and Sierk.

Initially I was like O DAT GUD IDEA. And I don't think its an awful idea but, this was the initial intent of the AGM system (AGM for community and AGM for content, we had an AGM Forum for a while but then Seakitten left and it went vacant, then it became jrh and that went vacant). I don't think you can afford to have one manager for Events/Help Desk/HxL.

The other issue we ran into with Content/Community is the delineation. You call Comps a forum department but it largely depends on client rewards and is typically (or at least used to be) used to draw in client users to the forum. It was a big sell in that regard. Also is RV really site, since most of their work and work product revolves around the client. I guess the easy distinction is basing them upon where their work product appears but we found that it wasn't always possible to have the right skillset to manage all of those people. Additionally, I can tell you from experience dealing with both that it takes very different people to manage HxL and HxHD, Moderation and Comps, etc. This would bring us back to sub-managers for those branches, which is essentially the same as creating AGMs above the managers, just making people feel a little important which is actually a good thing.

[Aaron]

As much as I'm glad you like my idea, it will never be implemented in a million years

Management barely want to do small changes like are being suggested here, so sadly a complete overhaul of how the staff departments work will never happen

Oh I agree, wouldn't ever happen. Although something needs to be done, other fansites seem to be flowing with members on their forums/client-room(s) then you've got Habbox. They need to take a step in the right direction, not sure how though.

[Foregetfuhl]

Oh I agree, wouldn't ever happen. Although something needs to be done, other fansites seem to be flowing with members on their forums/client-room(s) then you've got Habbox. They need to take a step in the right direction, not sure how though.

To be honest I think it's pretty simple. Stop with the events that today Habbos just DO NOT play, you look at the games being played at the moment you will see. Host a site wide recruitment fair on Habbo alas getting the community involved and as a result build up the ever lacking international side that habbox has. At this point in time we are effectively pushing 2/3s of Habbo away because we simply don't acknowledge any other timezone as well as other fan sites. Personally on a HxL front we need to push community and stop DJs streaming and I'm purposely staying up half the night to tune in and get people to stop doing that. It's a matter of a push from the top down and it won't happen if little changes come here and there we need just radical changes to sort it out.