Lack Of Events

[despect]

If people actually turned up to events, if Radio staff actually advertised, rather than 'Go to the helpdesk' or 'go to my amazingly cool party room' then I might be more interested in hosting my minimums. But seeing as the events pick up like 10 people, thats not worth it.

I hosted Pacman the other day at 7PM GMT. PEAK TIME. Had the same 6 people playing for the whole hour. Noone inviting, whoever on the radio not supporting. Staff from all departments not turning up to support.

You all say HFFM have loads of events with loads of people in the rooms; most of them are staff.... They actually have a TEAM that support. Unfortunately, Habbox doesn't have that. Habbox has a community with 80% of them who prefer to ***** about events and hxl and other departments than actually help to support them. Staff don't support. That's the issue.

I'm not booking an event to sit with maximum of 10 people in my room. It isn't worth my time... So it isn't a managers fault, or even the Events Staff. Everyone needs to pull there weight.

Ps. Laura this isn't a dig at you at all, xoxox

I think most DJs DO advertise events however, some listeners tend to not want to go to events. If you ever have any issues with DJs not advertising then please come to Me or Grig and we will ask them to advertise, but like i said we can't force the listeners to go to events .

[Kardan]

If people actually turned up to events, if Radio staff actually advertised, rather than 'Go to the helpdesk' or 'go to my amazingly cool party room' then I might be more interested in hosting my minimums. But seeing as the events pick up like 10 people, thats not worth it.

I hosted Pacman the other day at 7PM GMT. PEAK TIME. Had the same 6 people playing for the whole hour. Noone inviting, whoever on the radio not supporting. Staff from all departments not turning up to support.

You all say HFFM have loads of events with loads of people in the rooms; most of them are staff.... They actually have a TEAM that support. Unfortunately, Habbox doesn't have that. Habbox has a community with 80% of them who prefer to ***** about events and hxl and other departments than actually help to support them. Staff don't support. That's the issue.

I'm not booking an event to sit with maximum of 10 people in my room. It isn't worth my time... So it isn't a managers fault, or even the Events Staff. Everyone needs to pull there weight.

Ps. Laura this isn't a dig at you at all, xoxox

Sorry, what. You're saying that you're hosting an event that nobody wants to go to, yet you say it's not your fault? This is the sort of attitude that is killing the department.

Also to back up Laura's point, everytime I listen to the radio, I hear the staff advertising. Once again, I find it funny that the Events team are blaming other departments for the problems with Events.

[Sian]

Just an idea, you say people aren't really hosting events in the peak times as much? Perhaps with the points system, give them extra points for the peak times (also finding a peak times for international staff)?

That way, there's a chance for those who may not necessarily want to go above and beyond because they feel like they'll never get noticed/enough points, to get those points. And perhaps more points for spreading out their events, to try and stop them doing like 4 events in quick succession.

Otherwise you might have to result to bugging people in the public rooms to hire more staff (and no-one wants that).

[Kardan]

Just an idea, you say people aren't really hosting events in the peak times as much? Perhaps with the points system, give them extra points for the peak times (also finding a peak times for international staff)?

That way, there's a chance for those who may not necessarily want to go above and beyond because they feel like they'll never get noticed/enough points, to get those points. And perhaps more points for spreading out their events, to try and stop them doing like 4 events in quick succession.

Otherwise you might have to result to bugging people in the public rooms to hire more staff (and no-one wants that).

I imagine a 'staff hosting reward system' might be pretty flawed. If you get one staff member that's free all day Sunday and just hosts, the rest of the staff are going to have a hard time catching that person up in the rest of the week (even more so for those that work and go to school), of course, I don't know how the system works in depth, so maybe they've already tackled that issue, but your idea could help towards that.

[FlyingJesus]

If people actually turned up to events, if Radio staff actually advertised, rather than 'Go to the helpdesk' or 'go to my amazingly cool party room' then I might be more interested in hosting my minimums. But seeing as the events pick up like 10 people, thats not worth it.

I hosted Pacman the other day at 7PM GMT. PEAK TIME. Had the same 6 people playing for the whole hour. Noone inviting, whoever on the radio not supporting. Staff from all departments not turning up to support.

You all say HFFM have loads of events with loads of people in the rooms; most of them are staff.... They actually have a TEAM that support. Unfortunately, Habbox doesn't have that. Habbox has a community with 80% of them who prefer to ***** about events and hxl and other departments than actually help to support them. Staff don't support. That's the issue.

I'm not booking an event to sit with maximum of 10 people in my room. It isn't worth my time... So it isn't a managers fault, or even the Events Staff. Everyone needs to pull there weight.

Ps. Laura this isn't a dig at you at all, xoxox

So all these events that get full rooms and aren't even fansite affiliated, how do you explain that? HxL do advertise events and comps whenever I'm listening (if there's one on), and if you're relying on staff to turn up to make numbers then it's a pointless exercise anyway that benefits no-one

Why on earth we restrict everything to hourly slots I have no idea - the other day I was in an event with ~30 people and a huge queue waiting for another round but the host was told to finish up and move on to the next host's room. What an absolute waste of potential, and then of course you sit around waiting 15 minutes for the next host to get enough people in to start a game when there was already a horde wanting to play the last one. Habbox literally throws its own best promotions away just to satisfy a ridiculous notion that fun ought to be timetabled

[Grig]

I'm not booking an event to sit with maximum of 10 people in my room. It isn't worth my time... So it isn't a managers fault, or even the Events Staff. Everyone needs to pull there weight.

So, instead of facing up to the fundamental issues, you are blaming us for not advertising your event, because you cannot be bothered to take the initiative of doing so yourself?

That's how it sounded like to me. I'm not surprised there's a problem then.

[Mr-Trainor]

I have my Wired Race which isn't used - people are probably fed up of it now but saw auto runs mentioned and if you want to use that room for Habbox then you can. I've also got my water room too which again, isn't currently used .

[zebbadi]

some events staff can be just pure lazy, take for instance posting away but still playing habbo and doing your other habbox jobs like djing or helpdesk because they cba, espiecally when the department is in crisis, step up help out.

[despect]

I imagine a 'staff hosting reward system' might be pretty flawed. If you get one staff member that's free all day Sunday and just hosts, the rest of the staff are going to have a hard time catching that person up in the rest of the week (even more so for those that work and go to school), of course, I don't know how the system works in depth, so maybe they've already tackled that issue, but your idea could help towards that.

Yeah i can see where you coming from. However, i remember it was mentioned in the thread earlier that the main problem within the events department was that the staff do not feel motivated. So perhaps an awards system will help that? .

[Sho]

Just an idea, you say people aren't really hosting events in the peak times as much? Perhaps with the points system, give them extra points for the peak times (also finding a peak times for international staff)?

That way, there's a chance for those who may not necessarily want to go above and beyond because they feel like they'll never get noticed/enough points, to get those points. And perhaps more points for spreading out their events, to try and stop them doing like 4 events in quick succession.

Otherwise you might have to result to bugging people in the public rooms to hire more staff (and no-one wants that).

The points system we currently have gives us double points for hosting between 1am - 10am in our time-zones which is a good way to get more events during the night, but since most of the staff are GMT it means not a lot will bother hosting during the day for half the points.