Why is there separate posting comps?

[Richie]

It's unfair that staff have more rewards than non-staff!
Let's give more rewards to non-staff than staff!

I'm glad you agree.

[scottish]

Changing one method that according to you and various other is 'ONLY 50 TOKENS' shouldn't be an issue then?

They'll still have various different schemes available to them INCLUDING THIS ONE. This isn't taking it away from them, it's simply combining it with the community as a whole.

[Phil]

Just out of curiosity, why was it originally removed? @Phil;

Sorry, I must have missed something, why was what removed? Do you mean the staff posting before?

[scottish]

Sorry, I must have missed something, why was what removed? Do you mean the staff posting before?

Yes, you said it was originally around when Chippie was staff, then you reintroduced it with tokens I believe?

[Phil]

Chippiewill did it when he was staff before he was fired/resigned (can't remember). Nobody carried it on following his departure and I started it again more recently, that's all.

[scottish]

Ah okay, so it wasn't actually cancelled just neglected

[Chippiewill]

When I stopped being Content Manager I became a bit too inconsistent to run it and the forum manager at the time didn't understand the script I was using to generate the stats.

[Samantha]

I don't really care about the incentive of Tokens for the staff posting, I just like to see my department posting more in the week because they want to, not down to an incentive.

I do see the point that it's basically 100 posts or get nothing yet you are posting, aiming towards that goal sometimes yet it's still not thought of. I'd give a prize to at least the top person each week, perhaps smaller ones to those near the top too.

However, it's 50 Tokens, I don't care about it, I just volunteer my time like a lot of us do, it just seems people really do care a lot about a virtual currency. We chose to become staff and we always have the choice to resign too, likewise with the members.

Staff may appear different to the community, but without a community we don't need staff, we wouldn't even have a fansite to volunteer at.

[Empired]

I don't think the prize of the posting stats is behind the lack of activity

I actually kind of disagree. This sounds weird and I'm not saying it's a massive issue, but I think many people (e.g Samanfa's post below) are saying that there is a problem with the prize.

Obviously it's not a huge problem that, if fixed, will change the course of the entire site, but I think it's one of countless small problems that are contributing to Habbox's dwindling popularity. We need to slowly get round to addressing ALL problems to be able to get Habbox a bit more lively again. I think one of the problems at the moment is that a lot of people are assuming Habbox's difficulties have one or two main reasons and that's it. In reality, it seems to be down to so many small (but important) problems.

I think what I'm trying to say is people are labeling lots of small problems as one big problem. So like forum activity is dwindling and that seems like a big thing, but it could be down to small things like incentives for posting, the atmosphere in spam (this is only example and spam may not be the case), lack of staff posting, etc.
Same with on-client activity. It might be down to how the small amount of active habbo/habbox users are spread over three different rooms (event, hxhd, dj room), there aren't enough activities to do when there are no events on, the prizes in events aren't attractive enough to new users, there aren't enough events on to get regulars interested, managers often don't come online, etc.

TL;DR I'm saying the prize for the posting scheme is one tiny problem but fixing it would still be a small step in the right direction.

I don't really care about the incentive of Tokens for the staff posting, I just like to see my department posting more in the week because they want to, not down to an incentive.

I do see the point that it's basically 100 posts or get nothing yet you are posting, aiming towards that goal sometimes yet it's still not thought of. I'd give a prize to at least the top person each week, perhaps smaller ones to those near the top too.

However, it's 50 Tokens, I don't care about it, I just volunteer my time like a lot of us do, it just seems people really do care a lot about a virtual currency. We chose to become staff and we always have the choice to resign too, likewise with the members.

Staff may appear different to the community, but without a community we don't need staff, we wouldn't even have a fansite to volunteer at.

I was trying to say that earlier sam. I think sometimes people forget that staff need the community just as much as the community needs staff for Habbox to survive?

[Yupt]

I missed a couple of pages so I apologise if i'm repeating someone.

To increase the incentive for posting why not keep the prize for 100 posts but then, even if 100 posts isn't reached that week, have a prize for top 5 anyway. So 100 tokens, 90, 80, 70, 60.