What could Habbox do with/without?

[FlyingJesus]

Get rid of RV since the only person who ever pretended to care about them is now gone, merge comps and events as was rightly suggested years ago (although oddly enough the dept that deserves to be folded is the opposite to back then), help desk not made ugly, articles get forum integration done not half-arsed and on-site commenting removed, have some sort of backup plan for when the radio goes for hours without a live DJ, ban Intersocial because it'll be funny

[lawrawrrr]

Simple, don't.

Articles, Content and Graphics are all 'content' in a sense and there's no need for 3 different departments when it could be 1 department with different roles. So if you join as a graphics person you won't be forced to do articles or content design.

Problem with comp/events is different perms. Articles Content and Graphics won't have different perms on the forum I wouldn't imagine as they do nothing on the forum (aside from staff forum perms)

Why don't we just make Habbox staff 1 role and have all the separate roles doing different things? I don't see any benefit in merging?

[Empired]

I've given feedback about Articles before and think the department is greatly improving and Brad has been absolutely fantastic for the whole dept. I'd be seriously opposed to it merging with any other departments because they have such room for potential and only seem to be getting better at the moment.

Rare Values needs some serious TLC if it wants to survive and I just don't know if anyone can dedicate themselves to the dept as much as it needs. I wasn't there for the General Management takeover on Tuesday so I don't know what was said about it sorry.

[Kyle]

merging departments becomes a problem when the management of volunteers comes into play and would only result in people not getting the feedback they needed. if you want to merge departments but have separate branches then what is the need to have them all in the same department anyway? I can't really see any real rational reason for department merges, aside from perhaps rv but I know that that is under revision right now.
@scottish; merging aside, are there any features or management styles from the past that you miss, being a 10 year veteran?

[The Don]

Why don't we just make Habbox staff 1 role and have all the separate roles doing different things? I don't see any benefit in merging?

It's useless having rare values as an individual department with a separate manager when it has like 2 staff members. Some of its duties could be delegated into other roles if the departments were merged.

[scottish]

merging departments becomes a problem when the management of volunteers comes into play and would only result in people not getting the feedback they needed. if you want to merge departments but have separate branches then what is the need to have them all in the same department anyway? I can't really see any real rational reason for department merges, aside from perhaps rv but I know that that is under revision right now.
@scottish; merging aside, are there any features or management styles from the past that you miss, being a 10 year veteran?

The only management I notice these days is the forum and it's disappointing to say the least.

Something should have been done to resolve that month ago but seems like that's not going to happen any time soon unfortunately.

[Inseriousity.]

"in terms of any kind of remodeling."

I'm not against change but this idea that creating structural tinkering to departments will solve problems is personally I think what managers do to avoid actually tackling the harder solutions (which are usually harder to control). Also implies that change itself is progress but change is only progress if it sticks. If it's reversed a couple of weeks down the line because the old system was better then it's not change, it was just a waste of time and actually inhibits change more long-term.

Just a few thoughts more generally about that lmaoooo.
Onto the actual thread itself:

Habbox
Achievements system. lmao won't go into this again. I've already explained it lots before. A better prize and task structure than what was presented.
More Habbo presence. Honestly, the amount of excuses from management at all levels is just dire.
On plus side, more willingness to respond to feedback. GM team is probably most like a 'team' for the first time in god knows how long.

Forum
A most interesting thread award. like member of the month but deliberately designed to reward interesting threads rather than spamming ones.
More community events
On the plus side, good improvements introducing new things to the shop.

Comps
is perfect. Nah, I'm biased against this one because most of how it's structured is what I put in place back when I was manager (see above re: change).
As usual, more Habbo presence. Often regarded as a forum dept because it's based on the forum but it's target audience is on Habbo.

Articles
More investigative reports. I'll talk about this further down in 'revived' departments.
Community interaction. A news-based weekly event for instance.
On plus side, it's improved tenfold and some interesting discussion has been created on the forum as a result.

Help Desk
I know it's common to want to scrap it but lots of people come in for help. With the increase of Ipads and iphones, a guide to help staff answer these questions on a different layout.
More weekly events throughout the week.
On the plus side, being in the department, I know that these things are in the works.

Radio
An official party room.
More fun activities on Habbo with listeners.
A Habbox Podcast, pre-recorded, so that we can invite non-DJs to participate in Habbo(x) debate. I talked about this with Jade but she was confused with the concept but the thread should still be there if General/HxL management want to see it unless there was a clearout lmao. Some managers get totally stupid with the spring cleaning.
On the plus side, I haven't been paying much attention so I've got nothing.

Content
I like the Habbox Wiki so keep working on that, I suppose.
Update the guides and include more modern ones. Wired guides, for instance.
On the plus side, I haven't paid any attention at all. Please carry on with your blissful obscurity.

Rare Values
I know people say to scrap it but I actually think it's one of the departments with potential. I would broaden it out to be more about trading and tap into that trading subculture on Habbo.
Auction Room maybe.
Habbox Trade Team (with adjustments).
On the plus side, they've finally got rid of that highly unpopular rare values manager.

Graphics
Pixel artists. wtf. yeah as a graphics noob, I don't get this change at all lmao.
On the plus side, the most improved department at Habbox and seems to be more creative than (sadly) supposedly-community departments. Even taking out Draw my Thing (it was a collaboration), every single event that graphics have taken part in, they've tried to do something different, mostly positive.

Events
More weekly events added (work with other departments as well to see how they can boost these).
Scrap the guest role
Make event rooms (done)
Funding system (done)
More flexibility perhaps on when to host. half hour slots?
Probably bring back events screenies. I know regulars hated them but we moan all the time anyway and it did seem to boost that community feeling.
On the plus side, I've seen improvement in number of events hosted.

Revived departments
HABBOX TV. We need something to stand out again and I think this is our best bet. I don't necessarily think it has to be corny dramas either. For instance, as I was saying about articles, perhaps some investigative "journalism" with an "undercover reporter" for instance looking into the blackmarket gambling, has anything changed since the Channel 4 pedophilia investigation (maybe not lmao don't want another mute!) or more light-hearted things like 'Being a Habbo bwaby' or 'Being a Habbox noob'
I would also include HabboxLive to record some 'voiceovers' (like my idea of radio plays but with Habbox TV) instead of just reading the lines.
So a Habbox youtube channel that would host all of these.

[lawrawrrr]

It's useless having rare values as an individual department with a separate manager when it has like 2 staff members. Some of its duties could be delegated into other roles if the departments were merged.

USUALLY it does have more than 2 members of staff though! It's not really fair to "delegate roles" because I know if I was a Content Designer and was told "you have to update Rare values now" then I wouldn't be very happy about it as I probably wouldn't do it right!

Plus, if I was Rare Values staff and suddenly told that I'd lose any dedicated manager (because what we have right now isn't permanent!!!!) and expertise from a senior member then I wouldn't be very happy then either!

[The Don]

USUALLY it does have more than 2 members of staff though! It's not really fair to "delegate roles" because I know if I was a Content Designer and was told "you have to update Rare values now" then I wouldn't be very happy about it as I probably wouldn't do it right!

Plus, if I was Rare Values staff and suddenly told that I'd lose any dedicated manager (because what we have right now isn't permanent!!!!) and expertise from a senior member then I wouldn't be very happy then either!

Didn't you do exactly that by telling rare values staff they had to write articles?

[FlyingJesus]

Mike how about an action plan

But 4real how does RV have potential? Literally everyone just uses MP to find values and anything not on there tends to be only traded between a small group of the ultra-rich who all know each other and each other's prices regardless of what 2 or 3 people might have witnessed happen once a year