Suggestions for Change

[MissAlice]

For the benefit of Competition staff, I think you are doing great, running 40 competitions is hard work, and I am not disputing how much work goes into a competition, because I know from personal experience, I also know that when you start to struggle for ideas, the quality is also affected. However I do think there is room for improvement, which can only come about with suggestions. So this thread is just the place to say so, so please don't take anything I say as a criticism, but as good advice.

Which is better? 10 great competitions with excellent prizes or to have 40 competitions with mediocre prizes each month?

Also I know a lot of members prefer to receive VIP as part of the prize, but why not offer an alternative? You could easily offer 3 months VIP for a good competition with an alternative prize of some Habbo furni. Give the winner a choice, and then stick to the prizes and don't be swayed. That would make it appeal to more members, because not everyone wants VIP and the same can be said about furni.

Some regular competitions, can become favourites, they can be the best, they are fun, easy to create and easy to enter, and aimed at all abilities. Take a look at these, I know they are old, but competitions like these can still be used regularly:

http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=88183
http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=80614

Very easy to enter competitions correct? Look how many entries, the prizes and remember that this forum was some 18 months old, so the number of members was way less than now.

How have the dynamics of Habbox changed in the past 3 years?

Finally, it's really not about fixing something that isn't broken. It's about improving the tools you have at your disposal, making them sharper and applying them in a better way. Making the most of what you have to offer.

[Inseriousity.]

The October 09 posted in the graph were 10 competitions with better prizes. As shown in the graph they didn't do well.

We couldn't easily offer 3 months VIP, I'm afraid, due to the 8 months-a-month quota we have. It's a lot nicer to be able to spread them out. We do currently offer the choice of swapping HCs to rep but we don't do this vice versa, mainly cos it'd probably get too much out of control although maybe VIP swapped for credits will help us save up our 8 months for the people who'd prefer it, we could try that.

We currently have a Caption Phrase competition that's 'regular', we also have other regular comps with similar ideas behind it (anagram competitions, spot the differences etc) that are regular as they are most popular.

As for there being less people, that's exactly my point! That's exactly how the dynamic of Habbox has changed. It's no longer a small community anymore. Small communities work better, they function better. When a community gets larger, there can be a lot of segregation and groups; it's harder for new members to come in and feel a part of the community. Older members who were young at the time are now older and no longer interested in entering competitions. The competitions department went from being the hub of the Habbox Community to being the bottom of the pile and it's been a struggle trying to get the name out there again.

edit: oh forgot to mention, competitions are only open for 5 days now rather than the month it used to be before.

[Yupt]

Hiyaaa,

I have to say, I agree with the idea of favrioute competitions gaining more entries, and I was thinking, seeing as this whole thread is to set about improvements, do you think maybe at the end of each week we should create a poll for 'favrioute competition this week' and then the 4/5 winners throughout the month get put though and reused in the next month? I havnt run that through alex or mike, so opinions would be nice

Yes, again I agree that competition prizes are small, but instead of trying to minimise comps so the prize is larger for each competition, wouldn't it make more sense to see if we can get better funding? We try our best, competitions recently started accepting donations (read more, click link in sig) which get used in prizes of the donators choice. This is great. As you can see from sauravs birthday bash, bigger prize lead to more entries. But taking away from the variety of competitions we rovide is not he way to go about this, especially with the recent ask for more competitions.

[immense]

I agree with you, the general manager is poor. Garion and Oli were and are strong. Roxy is great. But seriously, this GM has SOO MUCHHH bias, it's just not funny. It's pathetic, get a new one.

How on Earth does he have bias? I don't think he's the best GM nor the worst. Sammeth. wasn't that long ago, surely you haven't forgotten?! I think he's a decent GM and the problem is out of his hands now. Habbox.com is older than father time and until that revamps then I don't think Habbox will improve. It's an incredibly ugly site. It is for teenagers. Look at anything designed for teenagers - sleek. Habbox is opposite from sleek. It's a shame. I think the blame can go as far back as nvrspk4 and every GM since then have concentrated on the forum and not the site. The current General Management team though, unfortunately show no sign of changing this. This isn't me sticking up for the General Management team, I think they have been poorly put together and some members are there for the wrong reasons.

How lol? If he's pointing out his bad points then maybe Matt will try to improve, so it is positive feedback .

Some of the bad things don't need to be said. I have absolutely no doubt I could make at least 10 points why I think Habbox is bad. I won't because it's not constructive and only leads to a negative atmosphere.

there's nothing wrong with mattg, he makes good decisions in hiring management from what i can see and yeah, he could be given more power to move this site forwards, but as a whole he is already good at managing. with experience in general managing myself, it's not always the easiest job to know what you should be doing, there is a huge list of things you could be doing so it takes a good person to even know what they should be prioritising themselves with. matt seems like a good person, but i do agree he should maybe get a bit more of a backbone, not that he should be fired.

Agreed.