Staff Posting Competition

[AgnesIO]

I have no objections to this idea but some Staff Positions don't require you top post on forums as much like Help Desk and Rare Values as in RV the only time it will be necessary for me to post on forums are in the Staff Forums and in the Trading Section if someone needs help.

I know they are not required to, but surely trying to encourage them to is only a good thing? I know for a fact, that when you are staff you tend to post less on the normal forums. I think this is sort of because all the staff forums are right at the top, so I didn't even bother scrolling down - since I could talk about whatever I liked right in the first four forums (or 7 at one stage)

I don't feel like reading through all your replies but
Staff are asked to post around the forum, even the mods have a target to hit - But you can't force people too and it's their own choice if they want to post around the forum. I think thats why they got rid of the staff talk about anything so people post in the public forums more.

I know you can't force them to - but is this forcing them to post?

Yes you do, Managers have VIP features (bar coloured name) within their management permissions and you are given normal VIP when you leave, this was agreed to by the managers as a better system than managers getting monthly VIP.

I ran a staff posting competition last year and I can't remember how well it worked, perhaps it did work I dont know but I have a feeling it was just the staff who already post, posting more. We shouldn't force staff to post on HabboxForum, for instance we don't force staff to listen to HabboxLive or use Habbox.com or visit Habbox events. Moderators are expected to post and are told this and assessed on it in their monthly reports, DJs are expected to listen to HxL etc but we can only expect people to do stuff in relation to their job. If they don't want to post on HabboxForum, as long as their job doesnt involve the public area of HabboxForum then they don't have to.

Of course I would rather it if more staff did post and stuff like the whole forum posting competition can make this happen, I've noticed a few in the top 10 are staff who haven't really posted before - so this is generally a good thing already, and may suggest that a staff posting competition may have similar responses.

Of course you cannot force them - and forcing them would, in hindsight, hurt Habbox. But you can encourage them

---------- Post added 19-04-2011 at 12:28 PM ----------

ah well £1.. £1.50

Same thing lol.
But like I said.. Staff already have a means of motivating staff to post. I would tell you what it is, but not sure I am allowed
& I think what you get in return is enough to post and interact with the members of HXF.

I cannot see any harm in you saying.

I could simply become staff to find out then resign if I was that desperate though

[Triz]

I cannot see any harm in you saying.

I could simply become staff to find out then resign if I was that desperate though

Well actually I couldn't be bothered to go in the staff forums and find out! lmao!
I don't know them my heart because I don't really care of added benefits I get from posting, I post because I enjoy HXF.
That said, what I'm talking about is not for ALL staff, it's just for Moderators. As Hecktix said, other staff members don't HAVE to post. Although it would be nice.

I think it is something like 40 posts p/w = 20 rep points and 3 thread a week = 20 rep points

[AgnesIO]

Well actually I couldn't be bothered to go in the staff forums and find out! lmao!
I don't know them my heart because I don't really care of added benefits I get from posting, I post because I enjoy HXF.
That said, what I'm talking about is not for ALL staff, it's just for Moderators. As Hecktix said, other staff members don't HAVE to post. Although it would be nice.

I think it is something like 40 posts p/w = 20 rep points and 3 thread a week = 20 rep points

Why is it only moderators who are offered this? It sounds like a very good idea to me.

[Hecktix]

I put a lot of effort into encouraging staff posting and have as long as I've been involved in the management side of HabboxForum, managers are asked to encourage their staff to post and I know that a lot of managers do staff challenge kind of things in their departments to give their staff a bit of fun and I remember Jess making posting around the forum one of her staff challenges - we all know that DJs rarely post around the forum (not that it's a problem but it'd be nice to see more of them) and it worked quite well, so these kind of things are good.

Before Christmas I also removed the "Habbox Staff Only: Talk about anything" forum, which was basically a spam forum for staff and I thought that this shouldn't be the case and since it's removal we have seen more staff posting around the forum, particularly in spam.

---------- Post added 19-04-2011 at 12:35 PM ----------

Why is it only moderators who are offered this? It sounds like a very good idea to me.

Because it's a system that Forum Management have introduced and moderators are the only staff members required to post. The rep offered there is from Forum Management's own rep power.

[AgnesIO]

I put a lot of effort into encouraging staff posting and have as long as I've been involved in the management side of HabboxForum, managers are asked to encourage their staff to post and I know that a lot of managers do staff challenge kind of things in their departments to give their staff a bit of fun and I remember Jess making posting around the forum one of her staff challenges - we all know that DJs rarely post around the forum (not that it's a problem but it'd be nice to see more of them) and it worked quite well, so these kind of things are good.

Before Christmas I also removed the "Habbox Staff Only: Talk about anything" forum, which was basically a spam forum for staff and I thought that this shouldn't be the case and since it's removal we have seen more staff posting around the forum, particularly in spam.

Yeah I remember the TAA forum, and I know I never posted outside the staff forums

I don't like targetting single departments, but yeah it is DJs who post the least in general I would say. I don't believe in forcing them to post, however the DJs are probably the most loved department on Habbo - so many users love them. So being able to talk to them easily and safely on HxF would be an incentive for most listeners to sign up.

[Hecktix]

Yeah I remember the TAA forum, and I know I never posted outside the staff forums

I don't like targetting single departments, but yeah it is DJs who post the least in general I would say. I don't believe in forcing them to post, however the DJs are probably the most loved department on Habbo - so many users love them. So being able to talk to them easily and safely on HxF would be an incentive for most listeners to sign up.

I think some DJs realise this, but then equally a lot of DJs don't recieve a very nice welcome on the Forum when they start posting around.

[AgnesIO]

I think some DJs realise this, but then equally a lot of DJs don't recieve a very nice welcome on the Forum when they start posting around.

Why not?

If this is an issue, then a resolution needs to be found - harsh punishments maybe - if what you are saying is what I think you mean.

[Hecktix]

Why not?

If this is an issue, then a resolution needs to be found - harsh punishments maybe - if what you are saying is what I think you mean.

You know full well we're harsh on people who are rude to newer members/staff posting It doesn't necessarily stop it though, it's improved however and this year in particular I think a lot more people posting are staff and it's good to see. As someone infamously said recently, we should rename spam to "HxHD Staff Spam". The person who said it said it in a negative way, but to me that's nothing but positive.

[Michael]

thats quite a good idea actually for the staff.

[AgnesIO]

You know full well we're harsh on people who are rude to newer members/staff posting It doesn't necessarily stop it though, it's improved however and this year in particular I think a lot more people posting are staff and it's good to see. As someone infamously said recently, we should rename spam to "HxHD Staff Spam". The person who said it said it in a negative way, but to me that's nothing but positive.

You should ban the members from the world :L Na, joking but anyway.

To be honest, I think the worst members for trolling/bullying have gone (well been banned)

---------- Post added 19-04-2011 at 12:51 PM ----------

thats quite a good idea actually for the staff.

Since you want to win the posting competition so much, why don't you reply again and say why you think it is a good idea, and how it could be improved!! :rolleyes: