Current state of affairs at Habbox

[Inseriousity.]

Hmmm showing your lack of habbo knowledge as a ex-community GM
There could easily be a Habbox staff Group set up by matt and giving managers admin so they can let their staff in and remove them when they leave. This could replace giving rights in hxhd entrance
its much more easier and less time consuming for everyone...

You're showing your lack of Habbox knowledge here, you should know how slow things like that take. I can guarantee after a few months some manager has forgot all about it and it becomes out of date. See also: Habbox Today, the jobs thing on Habbox, staff lists that some managers put in their staff handbooks etc.

[Sian]

is there any advice you would give to @Chris; on how to effectively manage and expand a forum community

That's a very good question, I would say he should post more (from what I see anyway?) getting involved in the general discussions may help him to see what else the members could enjoy having on the forum. I'm a big fan of intergrating forum community work into the moderation team (I am aware that they welcome members) but more needs to be done, I can't say I personally know what though.

The problem is as many forums as I have managed, Habbox has quite a different community, the hijinks you see on little forums (with posting competitions, referral competitions) may not necessarily go down well, and he is at least keeping an eye on the moderation, on the rules (and changing them when community attitudes change), doing a summary thread after a few changes have been introduced (which @Samanfa may been an idea for you to do, ie a monthly newsletter on the forum?), member of the month with the weekly posting thing.

I think what he needs to do, is reach out to the community himself, asking what you guys would enjoy doing to help boost the activity (maybe campaigns and things?)

[Chris]

@Kyle; Some answers to your questions for the forum department.

- incentive systems for staff. Are they working as intended? Do they need tweaking?

We don't have one in the moderation department but I've gathered some good ideas from @Despect; and hope to have a suitable one in place soon.

- fresh meat. ensure that managers are aware that they won't be in their position for life so use bonding sessions etc to properly groom (not in the moh sense) the younger members into management material.

The super moderators are already up for the job should I drop dead, so no worries there.

- achievements system. an idea presented by mike that has so much potential. look into it. thoroughly.

As in to replace the awards system?

- plan of action. manifesto. whatever you want to call it - we'd love it if you presented one. 'working on stuff behind the scenes' is just not going to cut it anymore. tell us what you're working on. reassure us.

We have an event that is being planned as we speak. I'm not going to tell everyone exactly what it is but I will say that we hope to run it sometime this month.

[sex]

@Kyle; Some answers to your questions for the forum department.

- incentive systems for staff. Are they working as intended? Do they need tweaking?

We don't have one in the moderation department but I've gathered some good ideas from @Despect; and hope to have a suitable one in place soon.

- fresh meat. ensure that managers are aware that they won't be in their position for life so use bonding sessions etc to properly groom (not in the moh sense) the younger members into management material.

The super moderators are already up for the job should I drop dead, so no worries there.

- achievements system. an idea presented by mike that has so much potential. look into it. thoroughly.

As in to replace the awards system?

- plan of action. manifesto. whatever you want to call it - we'd love it if you presented one. 'working on stuff behind the scenes' is just not going to cut it anymore. tell us what you're working on. reassure us.

We have an event that is being planned as we speak. I'm not going to tell everyone exactly what it is but I will say that we hope to run it sometime this month.

what about you not posting in threads other than boring news threads with "great" or threads by xxmattgx. i never seen you being normal and having convo with users like most people do on the forum that doesnt seem forced/awkward. maybe work on that!

[Chris]

what about you not posting in threads other than boring news threads with "great" or threads by xxmattgx. i never seen you being normal and having convo with users like most people do on the forum that doesnt seem forced/awkward. maybe work on that!

I'm not going to force myself to post in threads which don't interest me.

[sex]

I'm not going to force myself to post in threads which don't interest me.

nothing seems to interest you then lol
maybe join a forum you find more interesting??

[Kyle]

I'm not going to force myself to post in threads which don't interest me.

Terrible attitude

terrible terrible terrible

words cannot

i cannot

[Chris]

nothing seems to interest you then lol
maybe join a forum you find more interesting??

I'm not obliged to post in every thread on the forum. I'm a member of the forum like any other, I decide what threads I post in just as you and everybody else does.

[sex]

Looking through your posts chris the only thing you seem to post about is rules and feedback....... you don't interact at all unless its somthing posted by matt??? dont you have enough brownie points as it is. i know you want to be a AGM one day but no one will want one who doesnt care about community and i doubt anyone could care about it less than you do

[Samantha]

I'll try go over stuff more if they haven't been brought up as much.

Yeah the Stickies are mandatory, they've actually come in handy and I see most hosts refer to them - this can be done more, which I'm sure it will be!
For the DJ competitions I agree, although the radio has been getting more listeners it'd be great to see more, but less if that makes sense; more competitions with smaller goal posts etc. however, I have full faith in the management for HxL and I'm sure they won't let it happen again. They always come to me with ideas and the brains are amazing. However, I do agree about the point at hand.
Unique events is something I can't stress more, they've become more apparent since Lewis took over and an idea I gave him was basically staff bonding in the form of what they do. Create a thread, indicating that it's for event ideas that may or may not be there yet due to whatever reason aims/names etc. and the staff can discuss, work out the kinks and come up with something as a team to bring even more unique events. I fully agree that if there's something new we'll get more players, but it's nice having a mix too.
The reward systems are SOTM and anything else upto the department, when I was in Rare Values, me and Will would send the staff of the week a gift, and I saw @Empired; mention it too, I think that's a great idea and it could be done by GM/seniors/management etc. if they've shown how good of a staff member they are by dedication, commitment and such.
Looking at the screenshots A**** needs to be stamped down on, I mean other staff are in the desk there so even they could bring it up - I understand friendship and all that, but at the end of the day they're breaking a rule. This may be brought up in the monthly report for them if I see this is becoming a problem too.
Having all staff behind the desk might be messy if they are all required rights too - they would require rights in the staff entrance as a minimum, but @Jin; has brought up some ideas for the Help Desk which would be great to trial first.
Also, final note I do agree about activity, mine hasn't been the best for posting and I do believe that you can't expect someone to join in as much if you don't and this comes from all the senior staff before the actual staff. However, it should always be implied and I believe it is in the staff forums (don't quote me on that though I'll look).