Sudden drop in posts

[FlyingJesus]

Even more reason to get rid of them then

[Phil]

Was gonna say it's time for another happy hour thing but then they're clearly not the long term solution as all they do is make everyone spam utter rubbish for an hour and then the forum goes straight back to empty after

They were hardly even ever a short term problem tbh.. posting didn't increase all that much with them even with advanced notice.

[abc]

100 posts a week seems a lot for just rep or tokens?

There are so many things management of this site can do to improve activity but they always seem to turn a deaf ear to me and would rather see the forum lose posts than take risks. And naturally when management lose interest, so do its members.

[-:Undertaker:-]

100 posts a week seems a lot for just rep or tokens?

There are so many things management of this site can do to improve activity but they always seem to turn a deaf ear to me and would rather see the forum lose posts than take risks. And naturally when management lose interest, so do its members.

Well I wouldn't say that, having been in management a few times I always dreaded this time of year because I knew staff were going to fall like flies.

That said, if management can then maybe they should post more and encourage more threads. But I think we can do a lot to increase activity ourselves - especially us older ones - by posting threads and organising posting pacts/schemes amongst ourselves. Last time a pact was done it worked pretty well.

[Kyle]

better token rewards need to be added to the shop. bring back coins and add a limit to them.

I can't post as much as I usually would because I'm at uni but even so I haven't posted a lot over the last month or 2 because nobody else has and it's boring when there's nobody to talk to or nothing interesting to talk about. forum mods should be responsible for bringing conversation topics to the forum imo!

[Alkaz]

What people think staff spam/skype chats are like:




What they actually are like:

I always got the staff Skype conversations going. I remember once joining a department and someone was like 'not one message has been sent all week, you join and then bam in one day, 800 messages' 😌

[Kyle]

lol this staff spam thing is still going on how many years after the spam threads died out? Much of the chat on skype is about staff-related issues. I'm in a lot of habbox chats and can tell you that nothing that could be posted in a forum thread is ever really discussed. Bringing those conversations into the open would do nothing. We need incentives for habbos and conversation leaders. Jake, Scott, Tara, Jen, Lewis and all the other big thread creators no longer post threads so nobody has anything to say. As forum staff, mods should pick up this mantle.

[Matt]

I realise now I should have quoted people rather than writing blocks of words.

Posting around the forum has been slowly declining since the end of HxSS and last week was probably the worst week I have seen in a long time. Staff numbers have been dropping a great deal and I know the three moderators that have resigned from the Forum department within the past few weeks have put it down to time management and two of them down to University/education commitments. I know this time of year it tends to happen a lot (as it was the same when I was Events Manager) and I do agree that more could be done to increase posting around the Forum (at least between now and Christmas).

Happy Hours
Having read the comments in this thread, I will be planning a few Happy Hours to get the ball rolling. I know these shouldn't be solely relied upon to generate discussion and posting but it's a start. Due to my timezone and the fact I cannot set up Happy Hours to start/end at particular times, I'm discussing this with Laura so that these can be run at a time where a majority of users are likely to be online. I'm inclined to run two in one day so that users from all timezones will get a fair chance at double tokens/getting a few extra prizes.

Posting Pact
We haven't seen a posting pact in a while and running a pact that is official where VIP and additional prizes are on offer may also increase activity. I'd be more than happy to start that next week and advertise it on the Forum to get as many people signed up and willing to participate as possible. This obviously is only a short-term solution as posting pacts last for a week but I'm more than happy to run one and see if we can do it.

I do admit that I have been focusing on the rule changes and been sorting out new moderators, completing assignments and trying to create a Halloween event - but I have been noticing the decline in posts and I do plan on doing something to increase these statistics.

Moderator posting
Just briefly, one thing I picked up in these replies was the mention of moderators doing more to generate discussion around the forum. Moderators do have a post count requirement they need to meet each week. These are checked when the Weekly Top Posters are released and moderators have been meeting these requirements almost every week (in saying that, we have seen three moderators resign and new people joining) but on the whole, moderators are posting around the forum. I may incorporate threads into this tally as currently it is only posts, but I'll see how things go.

Top Poster prizes
Side note - do people want the prizes changing? I know the shop is bare at the moment but I am working on new icons and trying to think of a few new things to introduce in there. Are tokens a big enough incentive? Has this scheme become boring? - Let me know what you think because if people are happy with how it is, I don't want to go changing it. I know it'll probably be more successful if there's more options in the forum shop and that is on my list of things to do Reintroducing creds to buy is a possibility. They seemed to come and go within a few days (weeks, I can't remember) and were quite popular so I'll see if I can try and bring that back.

ALSO - staff spam threads are literally non-existent. The moderator one consists of Nick posting gifs of bands once a month and he's not even a mod.

[Nick]

I realise now I should have quoted people rather than writing blocks of words.

Posting around the forum has been slowly declining since the end of HxSS and last week was probably the worst week I have seen in a long time. Staff numbers have been dropping a great deal and I know the three moderators that have resigned from the Forum department within the past few weeks have put it down to time management and two of them down to University/education commitments. I know this time of year it tends to happen a lot (as it was the same when I was Events Manager) and I do agree that more could be done to increase posting around the Forum (at least between now and Christmas).

Happy Hours
Having read the comments in this thread, I will be planning a few Happy Hours to get the ball rolling. I know these shouldn't be solely relied upon to generate discussion and posting but it's a start. Due to my timezone and the fact I cannot set up Happy Hours to start/end at particular times, I'm discussing this with Laura so that these can be run at a time where a majority of users are likely to be online. I'm inclined to run two in one day so that users from all timezones will get a fair chance at double tokens/getting a few extra prizes.

Posting Pact
We haven't seen a posting pact in a while and running a pact that is official where VIP and additional prizes are on offer may also increase activity. I'd be more than happy to start that next week and advertise it on the Forum to get as many people signed up and willing to participate as possible. This obviously is only a short-term solution as posting pacts last for a week but I'm more than happy to run one and see if we can do it.

I do admit that I have been focusing on the rule changes and been sorting out new moderators, completing assignments and trying to create a Halloween event - but I have been noticing the decline in posts and I do plan on doing something to increase these statistics.

Moderator posting
Just briefly, one thing I picked up in these replies was the mention of moderators doing more to generate discussion around the forum. Moderators do have a post count requirement they need to meet each week. These are checked when the Weekly Top Posters are released and moderators have been meeting these requirements almost every week (in saying that, we have seen three moderators resign and new people joining) but on the whole, moderators are posting around the forum. I may incorporate threads into this tally as currently it is only posts, but I'll see how things go.

Top Poster prizes
Side note - do people want the prizes changing? I know the shop is bare at the moment but I am working on new icons and trying to think of a few new things to introduce in there. Are tokens a big enough incentive? Has this scheme become boring? - Let me know what you think because if people are happy with how it is, I don't want to go changing it. I know it'll probably be more successful if there's more options in the forum shop and that is on my list of things to do Reintroducing creds to buy is a possibility. They seemed to come and go within a few days (weeks, I can't remember) and were quite popular so I'll see if I can try and bring that back.

ALSO - staff spam threads are literally non-existent. The moderator one consists of Nick posting gifs of bands once a month and he's not even a mod.

SHUT UP U DON'T UNDERSTAND ME

I havent posted lots coz im working

BUT WAT THE HELL http://i.imgur.com/n96rJ9A.png

[Alysha]

but I am working on new icons

Are you? Are you really?