Staff Posting Quota

[Samantha]

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...?

HabboxLive, Events, Help Desk and Competitions are all community departments therefore they should be posting on the forum even if it's just a couple of times a week. The community aspect isn't just on client it's all the members on the forum too.

I mean, how can we expect forum members to listen to HabboxLive (for example) when half the DJs do not post on the forum, it'd be great to advertise their shows more, get them posting. Members usually tune in to specific DJs, but they won't know what others sound like until they know that there are other DJs to listen to and not just certain ones. You never know, they might be interesting! Although it'd be great to see more people posting, it may only come if the higher people in the hierarchy set an example. Not just managers+, but the seniors in their departments too!

I don't think a set post count would work, but it could always be trialled.

[Matt]

I don't think a set post count would work, but it could always be trialled.

I agree. If we end up getting literally no one doing it, then it's back to the drawing board. No harm in trying right?

[Alysha]

I think 5 posts is a decent enough number for staff to start out with. What harm would that do to them?

In other news:
ENTER THE ICONIC DESIGN COMPETITION
LOTS OF PRIZES, UNLOCK YOUR INNER PICASSO, SUPPORT THE IRISH ETC.

[Richie]

HabboxLive, Events, Help Desk and Competitions are all community departments therefore they should be posting on the forum even if it's just a couple of times a week. The community aspect isn't just on client it's all the members on the forum too.

I mean, how can we expect forum members to listen to HabboxLive (for example) when half the DJs do not post on the forum, it'd be great to advertise their shows more, get them posting. Members usually tune in to specific DJs, but they won't know what others sound like until they know that there are other DJs to listen to and not just certain ones. You never know, they might be interesting! Although it'd be great to see more people posting, it may only come if the higher people in the hierarchy set an example. Not just managers+, but the seniors in their departments too!

I don't think a set post count would work, but it could always be trialled.

I totally agree. Lets take @Yuxin; for example, she's a great DJ, very entertaining however I feel there's so many other presenters at the same level, yet she pulls in so many more listeners than them. The reason being, she knows the community, speaks to the community, a lot don't. The same would apply for other departments. The same events staff pull in mass amounts of users to their events yet the ones who don't interact struggle to get six people. I don't think that's just coincidence.

[Inseriousity.]

Disagree. I post because I want to not because I'm forced to. While I agree that staff should get more involved in the community (going to habbox events, hxhd, posting round forum), I believe encouragement rather than force is the better option.

[Richie]

I think 5 posts is a decent enough number for staff to start out with. What harm would that do to them?

In other news:
ENTER THE ICONIC DESIGN COMPETITION
LOTS OF PRIZES, UNLOCK YOUR INNER PICASSO, SUPPORT THE IRISH ETC.

Perhaps you're right, I didn't think posting would be that bad that's why I suggested 15. I just took a quick browse through the staff list and was thinking to myself who the hell are half of these people, didn't even know some of them existed, that's quite sad considering they could make so many more friends with a lot of people within this community if they just showed their faces now and then (not literally, stop getting excited @RyRy.

[Lindsey]

I agree with the fact the staff members should be contributing to the forum and the community, but I don't think forcing to will help. I personally think they will just leave especially the new staff members to the community. I think the management should promote them to post on the forum. I know that Kimmy has been trying.

[scottish]

Disagree. I post because I want to not because I'm forced to. While I agree that staff should get more involved in the community (going to habbox events, hxhd, posting round forum), I believe encouragement rather than force is the better option.

they tried that, it didn't work

[Inseriousity.]

Personal encouragement as in talking to people one-on-one rather than using system-wide posting stats. Becoming friends with them, inviting them to events etc. It's a double-edged sword really. You encourage people to get more involved in the community by making them feel like they're already part of the community.

The point being is that if it's just a minimum requirement, it becomes another box-ticking exercise when it's already a struggle for departments to gain staff.

[Richie]

Disagree. I post because I want to not because I'm forced to. While I agree that staff should get more involved in the community (going to habbox events, hxhd, posting round forum), I believe encouragement rather than force is the better option.

So what do you suggest? Any incentives that have been thrown their way is thrown straight back. What other options are there? there is no point in becoming staff if you aren't going to interact with the community. They are community based departments, if they aren't doing their job, rules should be enforced to encourage them to do so. There's no better encouragement than fear :Naughty:. In all seriousness though, do you think a small criteria to be met weekly is such a bad thing? some might even enjoy it and become addicts like yourself .