Current state of affairs at Habbox

[Kardan]

The main issues with HxHD and Events is that people STILL just talk to their friends (the hosts/staff) and don't try and interact with newer members/miss questions asked in hxhd. The amount of times either A) I've had to answer or B) A non-HxHD staff has had to answer a question in the desk because a hxhd staff member is too busy chatting to friends is pretty stupid. The managers of hxhd and events actually do try and interact and ik there are good staff members out there that will, but most of them would just rather stay and chat with their little buddies in a hosting area (or behind the desk) without trying to chat to non-Habbox member which defeats the whole ******* purpose of having community departments sigh.

Do we still have afk areas in event rooms? Having afk areas encourages this sort of behaviour.

[MKR&*42]

Do we still have afk areas in event rooms? Having afk areas encourages this sort of behaviour.

I had them removed and disallowed when I was manager (VIP Areas and restricted the rules on host areas), I dont know if that's still the rule, but I have seen a handful of people have them recently. I also made it so hosts couldn't sit with friends (as to not get distracted), but I saw people doing that the other day as well -shrug-. Friends in host areas are actually such a huge problem people don't understand how many EOs get distracted from the game because theyre talking to the buddy sat next to them :rolleyes:

[:odey:]

Doing things like that though makes it extremely regimented. Events are still supposed to be fun for everyone without putting a ridiculous amount of can/can'ts on them.

[xxMATTGxx]

Ah, I did wonder who would notice honestly I did . If I can't play a game on Habbo when I'm also doing Habbox work then what's it coming to, I still attend and play events and I'm pretty sure (don't quote me on this) that screen shot would have been taken pretty late. I was paused on it a while sorting staffing issues (I'm not trying to make it seem ok), but it doesn't mean I'm not interacting with the community as such. I'm working a lot more behind the scenes currently which will be brought out to the community soon. I'm currently limited until tonight, but I'm never unavailable to interact with the community.

Also, I have my role in my motto, so people can come to me and it does work! I can't comment on the other stuff yet, but I will do.

I'm not saying that it's fine for me to not interact with the community x amount of time, but no one can be expected to be on all the time.

I don't believe the motto part was aimed at you specifically. For example and I don't know when this happened but Help Desk staff seem to no longer require their role in their motto on the client.

[Tom]

@Kyle;, I hate you :@ AND YOU KNOW WHY.

O/T: Cool post, innit bruv.

[Inseriousity.]

Well it's nice you mention post-inseriousity but to be fair, I too fell into that trap of complacency. The thing is there's no leadership. There are flashes of it occasionally but the hard decisions are usually swept under the carpet unless there's someone else in the general management team who is willing to make that decision. For instance, I would imagine that Skynus probably had more of the final say into Chippiewill's recent firing. When I was AGM, it was me who had to make that final decision to merge the content/news departments and me who then had to make the decision to reverse it (even though technically they weren't "my departments" - as a general rule though, I understand that most AGMs will help any department if they need it regardless of the official structure).

I talk about it extensively in this thread here: http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=790483 but I am still waiting for the action plan I asked for despite repeatedly being told that it will be coming soon. I knew I wouldn't see it because it'd take about half an hour or so to make if they had the ideas. They do not have the ideas to push Habbox forward and when they are presented with ideas, there's no urgency so they either get ignored or abandoned (skandair's post is right for that then). Things like hxhd mottos they'll probably reinforce that but the bigger ideas, nope.

Yes, some department managers could get more active in sorting out the issues in their departments but to me, the bigger issue is the lack of leadership in general management.

[MKR&*42]

Doing things like that though makes it extremely regimented. Events are still supposed to be fun for everyone without putting a ridiculous amount of can/can'ts on them.

Hosts are still allowed to speak to friends, they don't need to do it in a hosting area. As for VIP areas they're strictly speaking *not gone* (depends how you view it) but they have to be open (so no wired).

[Lewis]

I created the reputation and tokens stickies for those that are unable to explain it. If a host can't explain it correctly, they are required to have those stickies. I think with Shonly that it was just a human error and she missed what Nelson said. (I might be wrong, but isn't Comity Nelson_Mandela?)

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Do we still have afk areas in event rooms? Having afk areas encourages this sort of behaviour.

We still have VIPS that you can access openly or via a teleport (the actual furniture teleport, not wired) - I believe one or two people have the HabboxVIP keyword when they shouldn't but they're new and have been unaware of the rule. That'll be sorted soon, though.

If anyone is seen that they're getting distracted by their friends, they'll be talked to about it. If it's continued, things will happen specifically for them to help avoid this in the future.

[FlyingJesus]

I love how the response to criticism of management is always that they do stuff "behind the scenes" with no further explanation. That's a totally useless reply to very valid criticism, and merely doing the technical bits out of sight is something that literally anyone with enough time can do - as insetootytoots said it's leadership that we need. A community manager (and this goes for all managers of community depts not just the AGM) needs to be a big presence in *GASP* the community.

Kyle hits the nail on the head really early on in his post: "there is little-to-no desire for upper management to interact with their people", and this extends to a lot of the lower staff too. Being staff is more to do with being part of a gang and less to do with actually promoting Habbox for far too many people, and there's very little that community staff are ever seen doing that reaches out to non-staff let alone non-members despite them being the people we need to impress. Simply put, community staff are more like their own closed community than a marketing section of the community at large which they ought to be. Said it before and will prob say it again plenty of times but staff spam areas do us no favours in this regard and nor do the ridiculous "staff bonding" sessions which do nothing but take time out of actual work and force the staff to be even more clique-y. How about instead of sitting around calling each other smexii beastzz and making hilarious gay jokes we focus on making Habbox the biggest name on client again

[IzzyUhh]

Aw yay! That's my sticky

But OT: With events I think it is meant for you to atleast tell people, I try to but sometimes I'll just refer to the stickies!
Most hosts do actually advertise links during events because I know that a lot of people don't automatically look at the stickies unless they're asked to.