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[Chris]

I haven't addressed everything but this is for you @scottish;

Debates

Not going anywhere. The way I see it, it’s better to have at least some regularity to when debates get posted rather than none at all.

Shop on dark skin

Added to the to-do list but it's not a priority at the moment.

Calendar

There was a problem when you originally posted but from what I can see it has been fixed.

Clean up forum

It’s unnecessary to remake every stuck thread. If its stuck it’s important and thats all people need to know.

Selling VIP

Staying as prizes only.

[scottish]

Debates

Then make a debates blacklist, so he doesn't post the same debate everytime he has no idea what else to do

Shop on dark skin

How long is this likely to take? It's a few minutes tweaking the colours.

Calendar

Oh, it seems some attempt has been made to fix the calendar but it's still bugged.

http://www.habboxforum.com/calendar.php

When I first clicked the 10th, it took me to the homepage, I had to go back and click 10th again for it to properly show me.

Same with the 11th, and 12th, etc.

Seems to always load forum homepage first time, go back and try again then it'll work.

Font really needs changing too, 1 looks like 7 imho.

Clean up forum

It is necessary, how many forums do you go on and see important threads posted by some random member? not very many. any forum I use it's an active staff member that's posted the important threads.

All important threads that are staying about for years, should imho be posted by an account like forum god. and a lot of old stickied threads are pointless/no longer needed.

Selling VIP

Why?

[Phil]

@scottish; in reply to you. I just have a lot to do tonight and haven't time to be divding up your post into the respective quotes so this will have to do you

Debates:
Never had the discussion but Chris seems pretty clear by his post

Shop:
After you initially posted I know Nick went and had a play with it but I'm not sure how far he got. Might have to let him answer on that one.

Calendar:
The only progress I've made on this is inform that Site Coders and I was told it has been added to their list of things to do.

Posting:
I've started to monitor staff posting and I've been posting breakdowns in the Habbox Staff forums. I'm giving out Tokens for the best poster in each department. I've also PM'd all managers encouraging them to get all of their staff posting and perhaps often incentive within department.

Clean Up:
I've gone through every single forum, sub forum etc and compiled a list of all stickied threads posted by someone who isn't the current manager. I've divided each one that is out dated into the respective department but whather they decide it is necessary to change them or not is up to them. The Forum have quite a large list and to be honest I haven't started going through it yet myself but I hope to do so soon. I'll be using Forum God to post these so this won't have to be done again.

Anything else? Feel free to pry

[scottish]

Make subforums hidden until you fix them

http://www.habboxforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1684

[Phil]

What's wrong with it?

[-Nick]

nvm

[scottish]

I assumed only staff were meant to be able to post, given the prefix's open and closed.

[GommeInc]

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.

Adding to this - get staff and/or cliques to talk on the forum and not on Skype. It's so boring seeing threads where people seem to have Skype conversations overflowing on to the forum.

If the Staff forums are anything to go by they should probably be removed unless they're specifically private affairs. I certainly hope there isn't a forum per department either as this isn't a huge conglomerate so there shouldn't be private department discussions going on. What one forum department does isn't that great to be kept secret from staff in general. Besides, the input of one member of staff from another department wouldn't exactly kill you. That's if that mess of an area still exists as it was a very long time ago.

[MKR&*42]

I think youd be surprised by how rarely anyone ever posts in any of the spam threads or 'habbox staff only'. honest to god its pretty much dead 99pcnt of the time.

[RyRy]

Reddit-style thumbs up/thumbs down for posts.

A like system/dislike system hybrid basically.

Also the ability to pay for 6 month subscriptions to VIP (but not any less, just 6 months or 12 months)

Would also like some new smileys because the ones we have a are a little stale.