HxHD Manager

[Kardan]

I'm not going to apply, but if I had to choose who to hire, I would definitely pick someone that isn't even staff at the moment. You want a different spin on things, and you want someone that will be committed. Good luck all!

[Samantha]

ARGHHHHHHHHHHH!
How many times did I have to hear managers say they were "limited", you are limited only by laziness and lack of imagination. Seems to be some confusion that to be creative and push boundaries, you need to be manager of a community department. No, no, no. If I was AGM still, I'd have rejected you for that attitude alone!

Good luck to anyone applying. There is bucketloads of potential in the department and it needs someone with a creative spark to get it out of its stalemate.

Lmao what, I have tried to push news to the community and I did the same with Rare Values (and you witnessed this by allowing me to do some things). It failed, but at least I TRIED unlike some. You've got to remember, to attempt to do something different, you need to try and get that community behind it which I did. However, it didn't stay although I religiously did things each week to broaden out to the community. At the moment, I am limited and I don't think you will realise unless you can see the news/management forum. You don't know what I've been attempting though.

Frankly, if you are a community department you are limited to content and vice versa - if I wanted to do an event on Habbo each week, I'd have to ensure I could do it, ensure no one else was doing an event at that time and advertise so much to do so. It's like if events wanted to do a forum event, they wanted to change threads, hide things, they could well be limited in that region as communication is key.

I am limited currently, and actually, being a manager of a community department would help as it would be a lot easier to advertise as that community is already there and my ideas can be heard. I included in my application the events I would do if I was still in the events department, yes I could possibly do them in news too, but like I said the planning would have to be done for ages before and atm the priority is getting news on the site.

Also, I didn't say I was limited in the application. I am not limited by laziness lmao, I do so much for the department already and the departments I am already in which @Skynus; and any of my managers can verify. I was actually rather pleased how much faith Tom had put in me and my initiative and ideas are in the management forum for news, which Tom is excited about.

I have waffled on, but unless you can see what I'm doing you really don't know what I've planned. In fairness, I would love to manage a community department, something different than Rare Values previously instead of a department with hardly any staff as time and time again I have had to pick News and Rare Values out of the **** because those managers before me? Yeah they were the ones lacking imagination and were lazy, but not me.

I've repeated myself and waffled on so much in that, but I think I have got my point across as fair bit. However, if I was lazy and unimaginative I would agree with you!

[Shar]

Anyone who's dedicated and just straight to the point when it comes to management should get the role. Someone who actually spends time in HxHD and knows about both habbo and habbox and has some ideas to bring hxhd out of whatever ditch it currently is in.
I agree on recruiting someone who isn't staff at the moment as they may have some fresh ideas.

[Kardan]

I've applied, as I stated some pretty good reasons why with past experience. I only applied as well as being News Manager though due to how small news actually is and how limited I currently am in some aspects. However, I don't believe I will get it as I'm sure it's had a lot of interest. I could be wrong, but instead of abolishing news, I'm sure news could have been opened too if I hadn't taken on the role again.

Saying that, I wish everyone the best of luck in applying!

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Lmao what, I have tried to push news to the community and I did the same with Rare Values (and you witnessed this by allowing me to do some things). It failed, but at least I TRIED unlike some. You've got to remember, to attempt to do something different, you need to try and get that community behind it which I did. However, it didn't stay although I religiously did things each week to broaden out to the community. At the moment, I am limited and I don't think you will realise unless you can see the news/management forum. You don't know what I've been attempting though.

Frankly, if you are a community department you are limited to content and vice versa - if I wanted to do an event on Habbo each week, I'd have to ensure I could do it, ensure no one else was doing an event at that time and advertise so much to do so. It's like if events wanted to do a forum event, they wanted to change threads, hide things, they could well be limited in that region as communication is key.

I am limited currently, and actually, being a manager of a community department would help as it would be a lot easier to advertise as that community is already there and my ideas can be heard. I included in my application the events I would do if I was still in the events department, yes I could possibly do them in news too, but like I said the planning would have to be done for ages before and atm the priority is getting news on the site.

Also, I didn't say I was limited in the application. I am not limited by laziness lmao, I do so much for the department already and the departments I am already in which @Skynus; and any of my managers can verify. I was actually rather pleased how much faith Tom had put in me and my initiative and ideas are in the management forum for news, which Tom is excited about.

I have waffled on, but unless you can see what I'm doing you really don't know what I've planned. In fairness, I would love to manage a community department, something different than Rare Values previously instead of a department with hardly any staff as time and time again I have had to pick News and Rare Values out of the **** because those managers before me? Yeah they were the ones lacking imagination and were lazy, but not me.

I've repeated myself and waffled on so much in that, but I think I have got my point across as fair bit. However, if I was lazy and unimaginative I would agree with you!

Ok, I still don't understand how you are limited with the news department? Because you have to do planning for events? Doesn't every department have to do that? I'm confused.

[Samantha]

Why are you limited in managing the News department?

I'm not limited in managing the News Department, I'm more limited in broaden it out more to the community. I'm currently on limited activity as my Internet is poor to say the least, I then have members of staff not pulling their weight and soon will be dismissed if it continues. However, due to them not doing what is required I then have to do more and more reports with the help of the single staff member attempting to do the work required. I then have all the admin stuff to deal with which I do behind the scenes. This is how I'm limited to taking it to the community more, not managing as I'm doing rather well for the majority. I hope that got my point across?
@Inseriousity.; I do see where you're coming from, and although I am limited (although on different ways to what you believe perhaps), I know I can always do more which is why I valued you as the AGM as you always said that. Sorry if I came off a little too defensive, I honestly didn't mean to as I know what you meant really.

[Empired]

I'm not limited in managing the News Department, I'm more limited in broaden it out more to the community. I'm currently on limited activity as my Internet is poor to say the least, I then have members of staff not pulling their weight and soon will be dismissed if it continues. However, due to them not doing what is required I then have to do more and more reports with the help of the single staff member attempting to do the work required. I then have all the admin stuff to deal with which I do behind the scenes. This is how I'm limited to taking it to the community more, not managing as I'm doing rather well for the majority. I hope that got my point across?

Didn't you just describe the standard duties for a manager of any department?

[Inseriousity.]

If you wanted to do a habbo event, you could easily do one. You pick a time you can do, you say to events management and jade id like to book this time please and there you go, job done. You want to do a forum event, you could easily do one. You choose something to do, you ask forum management or matt to put it all in place, job done. Being competitions manager didn't stop me from pushing boundaries and trying new things that no previous comps management had tried and Matt was always very helpful in placing all my clues and graphics around the forum to ensure it'd all run smoothly. Do something out of the norm and guess what, you get free advertising because it's out of the norm. You can get a forum notice for it because it's out the norm. You can get a HxHD notice for it because it's out of the norm. Do something during a general management event like Christmas or Easter and it just gets lost amidst all the other ideas.

To be fair to Sam here, I was talking more generally and it was just her that triggered my ranting. It seems to be a general attitude amongst some managers to just stick to the same old, same old and never try for anything different. There are those that try their hardest even if the ideas aren't successful in the end and those that don't try at all. I know you try Sam so the laziness bit maybe doesn't apply to you but to just say you're limited is being self-defeating when the supposed limitations that you've just mentioned are actually very simple obstacles to get around.

[CrazyLemurs]

I'm seeing a lot of people saying "someone from outside the department would be good because they have new ideas". That's fair enough, and I certainly feel new ideas are useful, but there's nothing stopping anyone from voicing those ideas in a Feedback thread, or something similar. You don't have to already be running the department to say what you think should change: really big things have changed before because normal forum users have said "we think this would work better" in lots of different areas.
Also, something against that is that somebody new doesn't know how to do anything, because they don't know how the department is structured, how it runs or what projects are currently underway. Someone already in the department can easily adjust to things that aren't majorly different; rather they would be more extended.
But I suppose I'm trying to protect my own interests, as well as those of other HxHD staff members.

[Kardan]

I'm seeing a lot of people saying "someone from outside the department would be good because they have new ideas". That's fair enough, and I certainly feel new ideas are useful, but there's nothing stopping anyone from voicing those ideas in a Feedback thread, or something similar. You don't have to already be running the department to say what you think should change: really big things have changed before because normal forum users have said "we think this would work better" in lots of different areas.
Also, something against that is that somebody new doesn't know how to do anything, because they don't know how the department is structured, how it runs or what projects are currently underway. Someone already in the department can easily adjust to things that aren't majorly different; rather they would be more extended.
But I suppose I'm trying to protect my own interests, as well as those of other HxHD staff members.

I think a good question to ask is why have management allowed anyone to apply for the manager position rather than just help desk? Clearly they feel that a person from the outside *could* do some good.

[CrazyLemurs]

I think a good question to ask is why have management allowed anyone to apply for the manager position rather than just help desk? Clearly they feel that a person from the outside *could* do some good.

I find it much more plausible that they feel everyone inside the department is not up to scratch - this kind of offends me