Staff Posting Quota

[Richie]

Spam threads in the staff forums aren't really as much of a problem as I originally thought they were, some staff just refuse to post around the forum.

@Wispur; Dunno if this is implemented already but can you not set a staff post minimum of 15 posts a week or something (Posts must be within areas of the forum that post count does increase). I never understood why staff can't post at least 15 times a week, lets be honest, its not hard and those 15 posts contribute massively to our so called "dying forum".

[Matt]

Spam threads in the staff forums aren't really as much of a problem as I originally thought they were, some staff just refuse to post around the forum.

@Wispur; Dunno if this is implemented already but can you not set a staff post minimum of 15 posts a week or something (Posts must be within areas of the forum that post count does increase). I never understood why staff can't post at least 15 times a week, lets be honest, its not hard and those 15 posts contribute massively to our so called "dying forum".

Staff spam forums are hardly used from what I've seen. It's all on skype now anyway (even those seem to be pretty dead but I know it varies from department to department).

I always thought the staff posting scheme was good but then that didn't go down too well with non-staff members, so I won't start that back up :rolleyes:. If you brought in a 15 post minimum for staff I reckon you'd get a lot of people not meeting it, with only a few small exceptions such as management and the forum dept (which are very much forum based anyway).

[Phil]

Staff spam forums are hardly used from what I've seen. It's all on skype now anyway (even those seem to be pretty dead but I know it varies from department to department).

I always thought the staff posting scheme was good but then that didn't go down too well with non-staff members, so I won't start that back up :rolleyes:. If you brought in a 15 post minimum for staff I reckon you'd get a lot of people not meeting it, with only a few small exceptions such as management and the forum dept (which are very much forum based anyway).

I stopped doing the staff posting statistics because it wasn't improving staff posting which was the plan. Not because a few silly people had a fit about staff getting 50 extra tokens for posting :rolleyes:

[Matt]

I stopped doing the staff posting statistics because it wasn't improving staff posting which was the plan. Not because a few silly people had a fit about staff getting 50 extra tokens for posting :rolleyes:

ah ok. I know a few people had very big fits over the token idea but yeah the same people did seem to be winning it week in week out.

[Richie]

Staff spam forums are hardly used from what I've seen. It's all on skype now anyway (even those seem to be pretty dead but I know it varies from department to department).

I always thought the staff posting scheme was good but then that didn't go down too well with non-staff members, so I won't start that back up :rolleyes:. If you brought in a 15 post minimum for staff I reckon you'd get a lot of people not meeting it, with only a few small exceptions such as management and the forum dept (which are very much forum based anyway).

Well I'm sure after the first few warnings people would get the idea. If staff aren't willing to take 20 minutes a week (not even) to interact with the community, I'm sorry but they shouldn't be staff. That's literally all it takes. Even the likes of 'post what you last ate' and 'post what you're listening to' are within these bounds that take staff like 10secs to reply to. We are basically talking about 2 'what you're listening to' posts a day. Lmao I just don't see how staff can't do that.

[Bloop]

why shld it fall on the duties of a staff to not only do their departmental work, but make the forum active and revive a dying fansite?

staff are hired to take on specific tasks in the first place...?

[Richie]

why shld it fall on the duties of a staff to not only do their departmental work, but make the forum active and revive a dying fansite?

staff are hired to take on specific tasks in the first place...?

Staff are also a part of our community & this is essentially its hub. What's the point in even attempting to salvage this community if staff don't have enough fire in their belly to even post twice a day. If everyone had the same view as you, I'd vote to abandon the fansite as there's no point, we would all be just wasting our time trying to save something that's already dead, in your eyes.

[Bloop]

Staff are also a part of our community & this is essentially its hub. What's the point in even attempting to salvage this community if staff don't have enough fire in their belly to even post twice a day. If everyone had the same view as you, I'd vote to abandon the fansite as there's no point, we would all be just wasting our time trying to save something that's already dead, in your eyes.

im not saying habbox is dead, but its what this thread makes it appear to be. we are still better than most other fansites although yes, post counts have decreased.

i dnt agree that staff should be forced to meet a posting minimum especially since some departments are already in desperate need of people like events. why drive away even more people? i suggest attracting more members should be worked on rather than add to the burden of staff when it isnt their fault that posts are dcreasing?

lousy argument and i probably dont even make sense sorry cuz im half-asleep

[Alysha]

I agree with Richie, it doesn't even have to be fifteen. Half of the staff don't post even once, it's not a burden to interact with the people you're working with, or the community you're working for. If you see it that way, they why bother at all?
Would you go into work irl and just ignore other staff members or customers etc? No, you wouldn't. The same principle applies.
The reason fan sites die out, is because people stop interacting.

[Richie]

im not saying habbox is dead, but its what this thread makes it appear to be. we are still better than most other fansites although yes, post counts have decreased.

i dnt agree that staff should be forced to meet a posting minimum especially since some departments are already in desperate need of people like events. why drive away even more people? i suggest attracting more members should be worked on rather than add to the burden of staff when it isnt their fault that posts are dcreasing?

lousy argument and i probably dont even make sense sorry cuz im half-asleep

The thing is though, no-one wants to sign up to a forum graveyard. Sure, you might think it's a bit harsh, you may even think I'm trying to pass off the blame to staff, however that isn't the case. It's so easy as a staff member to hide away on skype / hidden forums to speak to the handful of folk. I'm going to be honest, if it gets me in trouble so be it but since becoming a moderator I feel my post count has decreased massively, although mine are higher than average I'm simply not posting around as much as I used to. The majority of the people on the forum I speak to through skype anyway, its the same case we everyone else.

If every staff member stays in that mindset 'oh i have them on skype, i'll speak there' what's the point in habbox. This is why we should have a staff quota on a post minimum, to set an example and to help our forum. I could have easily sent all this to @Wispur; over skype, had a rant and rave there, suggesting this but I didn't as I knew if I did i'd be getting one response not a possible 20+.