News Department Feedback 2k13

[Inseriousity.]

The first merge was more unsuccessful because of egotistic managers who didn't have compromise in their dictionaries. The staff moaned at first but they got on with it in the end. Also, it was called a 'trial', probably the worst thing to ever call something. Call a change a trial and you don't need to adapt. You were on the right track and you let yourself be derailed.

[FlyingJesus]

So if they're not merging and news for whatever reason isn't getting ditched is the News Leader role now essentially the same as Manager was before? Agree about merges being quite possible also, we've done it in the past (community and moderation dept becoming the forum dept way back when) and it's definitely egos that get in the way - that and the current style of manager management where it's apparently more important to keep people happy than do what's necessary for things to go forward

[Samantha]

The first merge was more unsuccessful because of egotistic managers who didn't have compromise in their dictionaries. The staff moaned at first but they got on with it in the end. Also, it was called a 'trial', probably the worst thing to ever call something. Call a change a trial and you don't need to adapt. You were on the right track and you let yourself be derailed.

Lmao, was that after a lot of the staff quit ? I actually enjoyed the merge after it happened, especially being in both news and content at the time. It's a shame that some people didn't really get it.

[Inseriousity.]

There were a few resignations but that's to be expected at every radical change and quite frankly those very same people come rushing back eventually. I agree with Tom. Yes it helps if you can carry a team along with you and what you set out to achieve and I don't think you should ignore them completely. I think a huge flaw in the feedback forum for instance is that yes we can suggest ideas but it's managers who need to think of the factors that we don't have access to or knowledge of and then they need to lead. That's where the issue lies because there does seem to be a fear that if the boat is rocked too much, everything will go overboard when the reality is that staff are actually pretty used to change and adapting and while they may complain about being knocked around a lot (still going with the boat analogy here, bear with me lol), they tend to pick themselves up in the end and get on with it.

[FlyingJesus]

Quick say something about smooth sailing and a capable hand at the tiller

[despect]

I'm still not convinced about this 'News Leader' role, like others have said its basically the same as what News Manager was. I'm not sure how the role is any different to News Manager?

[lawrawrrr]

I'm still not convinced about this 'News Leader' role, like others have said its basically the same as what News Manager was. I'm not sure how the role is any different to News Manager?

It was because the role of news manager wasn't going to continue and I didn't think it was fair to give someone a role then demote them almost straight away!


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[Kardan]

So yes, it's exactly the same job role.

[Chug!]

Literally just wasted a good 20 minutes reading all this…


But, like others in the thread, I don't understand why news is still a thing on the main site, yes all for being the habbo fansite who does it for the longest and still tries to keep it up but it just isn't working. However, surely a few articles on the homepage wouldn't be that hard to do. Habbo doesn't have loads of news each day/week; so they'd be what, 4 articles a week? If that some weeks.

All other news should be on the forum anyway and if it's not got reporters to report on Real life situations then make it more of a general talk topic thing where people write the news from sites, (with a link to the site for copyright), and that be that. Then people can still communicate about such news & forum moderators can then check that it's actually being implemented well (As can Content & Agms if need be)??

[FlyingJesus]

The solution for news if it has to be kept on the site at all is pretty simple and I've been explaining it for god knows how long without it ever being put into practice (despite being told by more than one news manager that it would happen) and to my knowledge doesn't require waiting for v7 or having a huge team or even needing people who can write really.
Current problem: the community always gets to the news first and posts threads about it
Solution: don't see it as a problem and reward the community for being attentive
Current problem: not enough writers
Solution: stop needing them
Current problem: no-one comments on the on-site news so it looks totally dead
Solution: take away on-site commenting and bring it back to the community properly

The news is already here. We do not need writers, we just need someone who can copy and paste a link onto the site with a title to it.

Give credit to the thread creator (there's an incentive for people to keep posting the news as quickly as it comes out), remove on-site commenting PLEASE (it makes everything look unread and even if there are comments on the stories ever it's pointless as it may as well come from the forum, adding to the community), and give whoever's on this "news team" a really easy job increasing the number of stories on the site without having to write more than an opening sentence. If people really want to write there's nothing stopping them from doing extra stories on things that aren't being reported on through the forum, and then we have even more from whatever contributors want to step forward. It's ridiculously simple and there's never been a reason given for it not to be done except that management can't be bothered to change things