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[Phil]

is world cup stuff still gonna happen?
@Phil; @Samanfa; @xxMATTGxx;

When you say "Stuff"?

[David]

anything at all
vip/predictions/other

[Samantha]

is world cup stuff still gonna happen?
@Phil; @Samanfa; @xxMATTGxx;

Yep .

[Phil]

anything at all
vip/predictions/other

I'm can't say what other departments are planning as I'm not sure what's just being talked about and what's concrete but I can confirm that the betting competition will be happening.

I'm not sure what to do about VIP yet. Will be releasing VIP for that or something else, don't think I'll do both because they'll be very close to each other and people won't buy two so close but we shall see!

[Nick]

Hey all,

We are still welcoming any ideas for the forum!

[scottish]

Close Debates

They're not popular, when one does come out it's either completely stupid or the same generic debate that's been done 300 times in the past 10 year (abortion, death penalty as a perfect example of the current 2)

The department itself isn't needed as it's useless and the debates spewed out by Dan are absolutely crap. The member debates could easily be posted within Discuss Anything instead.

For example just now we have the last post being 12 days ago (posted in a member debate), and the last post on official debates being between 20-27 days ago.

Fix the shop on non habbo dark skin

It's ugly and not been modified for the black laoyout

Fix the shop

The only time gold bars are added is if there's a thread about it, then they'll add some for a few minutes then remove them again, either do it periodically (say on the first day of every month) and announce it so everyone has the same chance, or remove gold bars from the shop if you're never going to stock them.

Sell VIP

Do Sulake even care if you sell VIP now? I'm pretty sure they haven't for years, added to that you used to only do it for Christmas (as money was going to charity) and now you seem to do it every holiday event (easter, summer, h'ween, etc), so I'm sure if they were against it you'd already be breaking their rules by doing that, so why not just fully go back to selling it?

Fix your calendar

If you go to the calendar (http://www.habboxforum.com/calendar.php) and click for example the 21st, 2 events booked yet it directs you to the forum homepage. So either it's set to 2 by default so it doesn't look dead or there's something wrong with your script.

Make posting more 'attractive'

You have the Weekly Posting Stats (do you? it's not been posted since the 6th of October) which is meant to encourage people to post, but it doesn't. No-ones going to intentionally post 100 times so they can get VIP for the next week, and repeat it constantly. You need to make people want to post.

For example, if I post a bunch of threads the posts basically doubled.

Take the last weekly stats for example: 0 over 100 posts, 1145 total posts, 166 posters

Take a week I posted a few threads: 2 over 100 posts, 2816 total posts, 191 posters
Another week I posted a few threads: 2 over 100 posts, 2160 total posts, 156 posters

If you want people to post, then you actively need to make threads that people will want to post in, otherwise they'll look at the new posts/activity stream, see nothing and do nothing. They're not going to say oh the forums dead let's liven it up, they'll just look on another forum or do something else.

Encourage the mod team to posts, hell encourage every department to actively post more. Encourage them to actively make threads that'll promote discussion rather than replying to some thread with nothing useful.

Clean up the forum

Take some time, go through the forums and clean it up.

Some examples:
- Sub forums that aren't active - merged with the parent forum in most cases just add a prefix or something.
- Old stickied threads - re-write them so it's appropriate now, or just remove them.

I'm sick of seeing stickied threads by someone who left 8 years ago tbh.

And the likes of temporary stickied threads becoming stuck for 3 years.

In my opinion, all stickied threads should be posted by a 'high' ranking member of staff (be it forum manager, smods, or agms)

Some examples of these could be;

http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=720719 - A stickied thread that should have been temp.
http://www.habboxforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=432 - A subforum that hasn't been posted in for over a year and 6 months



That's all I can be bothered to think about just now

[David]

fix the rep limit so i can rep him

[Empired]

Particularly agree with scott's point about making posting more attractive. It should be part of the job description for moderators. You're the forum department, you specifically should be particularly responsible for posting threads to encourage people to post.

Also I'm looking at the HabboQuests forum and they have an activity stream that shows the latest 3 posts at the top of the page that updates automatically. I'd like something like that please.
And they have the radio on both their main site and the forum. Would remind people to listen to the radio because I never use habbox.com or habboxlive.com unless @Jssy; tells me she is DJing. Actually I can see a downside to that because then I'd have to mute it all the time because I don't like many DJ's shows.

[Nick]

Particularly agree with scott's point about making posting more attractive. It should be part of the job description for moderators. You're the forum department, you specifically should be particularly responsible for posting threads to encourage people to post.

Also I'm looking at the HabboQuests forum and they have an activity stream that shows the latest 3 posts at the top of the page that updates automatically. I'd like something like that please.
And they have the radio on both their main site and the forum. Would remind people to listen to the radio because I never use habbox.com or habboxlive.com unless @Jssy; tells me she is DJing. Actually I can see a downside to that because then I'd have to mute it all the time because I don't like many DJ's shows.

From what I can remember there was a rule in the mod department where you had to make what, 40 posts a week but I can't see that happening due to the forum having less activity these days but I will look into getting something on the lines of that back in the department.

There actually used to be a radio (Or still is??) on the forum, it might be still on site skin 2010, down the bottom of the forum and it would bring up a little pop up box and you could listen to habboxlive that way. Another reason due to that is because their forum is on their main site so its probably been coded entirely by someone.

fix the rep limit so i can rep him

Not sure about lifting the limit but ill have a discussion about it

[scottish]

There used to be a shoutcast plugin in the forum footer (on the main page) which you could open the radio in a popup.

I'd completely disagree with having it automatically load, or having it in the header etc.


Also curious where 'active members' comes from, how does vbulletin calculate that.

It's currently Active Members 1,152 which I only see about 170 people post per weekly posting stats so maybe 500 max I can't see over 1.1k being active

Also, where's posting stats been for past few weeks?