Habboxlive Feedback

[beth]

Not when nobody in the department actually seems to want help - from what I can see from the outside, it looks like the staff are just happy letting it stagnate in its current state, any suggestions in feedback always seem to be shot down immediately by a lot of the DJs. If I saw nobody was taking my (or any) suggestions on board as an experienced DJ, I'd probably leave too.

The thing is Laura people get tired of trying. For example, the other day I did a competition for coins and points, the listeners got to about 40 odd (which is a lot these days) and everyone refused to do the next slot. Fair enough people might have things to do but it's the same people covering time and time again and I don't believe for a second 25 odd staff members are constantly busy at the exact same time. People make excuses, I have to go out, I have to do this but really they're just on skype and browsing the forum. They're entitled to that but it'd be nice if they lend and hand now and then.

to be fair to the staff, i would imagine the majority of the DJ's are still young 13/14 year olds (amirite?) who are here to mess around on the internet and enjoy themselves not save a dying department and spend all their spare time planning great detail into a radio show that doesn't necessarily affect their offline life. and it's all good and well to say "well get rid of the uncommitted" but who would you have left, really?

the problem is far too deep rooted. i would like to think that jess and myself got somewhere for a little while around valentines with inactivity checks and mass hiring/firing but i do think logan (if he wants to bring this department back around, i think you'd be wasting your time hun but worth a go) fire the entire department and start again with looser rules and a more modern approach.

in regards to planning of habbox starz myself and @Sammy; planned the xmas factor EVERYDAY for 2 months. we spent hours mixing clips and tunes. if that effort hasn't gone in, then i expect it might be messy.

[Richie]

to be fair to the staff, i would imagine the majority of the DJ's are still young 13/14 year olds (amirite?) who are here to mess around on the internet and enjoy themselves not save a dying department and spend all their spare time planning great detail into a radio show that doesn't necessarily affect their offline life. and it's all good and well to say "well get rid of the uncommitted" but who would you have left, really?

the problem is far too deep rooted. i would like to think that jess and myself got somewhere for a little while around valentines with inactivity checks and mass hiring/firing but i do think logan (if he wants to bring this department back around, i think you'd be wasting your time hun but worth a go) fire the entire department and start again with looser rules and a more modern approach.

in regards to planning of habbox starz myself and @Sammy; planned the xmas factor EVERYDAY for 2 months. we spent hours mixing clips and tunes. if that effort hasn't gone in, then i expect it might be messy.

I'm not suggesting they turn the radio into some sort of nazi camp. With the amount of djs habboxlive have if everyone got their minimum weekly the timetable would be sorted but that doesn't happen. Everyone is here to have fun but you can have fun whilst following rules and helping one another. Sure one of the things i liked doing was, making myself a challenge to get a certain amount of listeners and be determined to get those listeners but that's probs just me

[Kardan]

If I put my opinion into this, I think the days of Habbo Radio are long gone.

Does Habbox make much profit on the radio?

[iLogan]

In terms of getting DJs on air, it's a tricky one. We can't force people to go on air but if they're not doing their minimums then they will receive warnings and eventually get dismissed. In terms of motivation to book slots we do have a department-wide DJ points scheme where you receive points for booking slots, hosting events etc which can then be redeemed at the end of the month for rewards such as forum vip / rep and credits.

I'm not sure what more we can do in terms of motivating DJs to get on the radio. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Richie you make this thread every other month, determined much haha Don't blame ya.

I really think the future for HxL is bleak unless someone pulls out something unbelievably amazing. Now. No more "we have plans to update so and so", "there will be exciting changes in a couple of weeks", it needs to happen now and it needs to happen fast. It was a shame after the event that @Maatt.; (Guessed name) did, there were no DJs booked because it was fab. to see the listener count that high. You can't drag people to go onto the radio, but I'm sure quite a handful of DJs who could have easily booked that slot. I believe Richie ended up going on there in the end idk.

Whilst I'm here, can I please ask. Why don't you show "non-unique" listeners on the radio as well, sure it's not truthful per se, but it at least makes the listener count seem a lot higher.

I'm all for events teaming up with HxL A LOT more often. The DJs already say "search so and so" for an event and some do mini on-air competitions which seem a bit rushed, but it'd be much nicer to bigger events planned between the HxL and Events department (HabboxStars is a fab. event, and yes I'm aware events dept. wasn't involved in that ). Simply a shame that saying a Habbox link will most likely get you a mute/ban in-game, so events hosts can't really remind people to tune into Hxl.

Also, do major giveaways still happen? I've seen the "win a room" thingy, but not so many giveaways now. I know we're not all made of furniture and credits aha, but it'd be nice to have a monthly/bi-weekly one in order to continuously spike up those user counts more often.

I like Bethie's idea about news going onto the radio tbf. I'm not sure where I stand on scrapping the dept. (because it seriously will face a big blow when HxSS ends) but quite simply, something major needs to be done now.

In terms of the non-unique listeners, the majority of the time our unique listeners and non-unique listeners are pretty much the same, never more than 2 or 3 listeners in difference.

[MKR&*42]

In terms of getting DJs on air, it's a tricky one. We can't force people to go on air but if they're not doing their minimums then they will receive warnings and eventually get dismissed. In terms of motivation to book slots we do have a department-wide DJ points scheme where you receive points for booking slots, hosting events etc which can then be redeemed at the end of the month for rewards such as forum vip / rep and credits.

I'm not sure what more we can do in terms of motivating DJs to get on the radio. Does anyone have any suggestions?



In terms of the non-unique listeners, the majority of the time our unique listeners and non-unique listeners are pretty much the same, never more than 2 or 3 listeners in difference.

Hmm, I expected a massive difference really aha. I suppose if it's only 2/3 it doesn't matter that much.

[lawrawrrr]

tbh if grig left because remelkid wouldn't listen what chance has richie got

really i didn't know that

hope it's not another department that just goes downhill because the manager doesn't seem to be open to ideas... if that is true anyway

Not when nobody in the department actually seems to want help - from what I can see from the outside, it looks like the staff are just happy letting it stagnate in its current state, any suggestions in feedback always seem to be shot down immediately by a lot of the DJs. If I saw nobody was taking my (or any) suggestions on board as an experienced DJ, I'd probably leave too.

I completely agree with you, I was just making a comment that perhaps Richie was just trying on his own rather than suggesting to Logan, as I didn't know whether he did this or not. At the end of the day, you can enforce things to be making people write more, even in News we've managed to get our staff churning out 1 article a day which is great compared to a few weeks ago when sometimes we'd have 3 or 4 per week.

Anyway back to HxL issue, we don't know what's going on behind, I think half the issue is because the DJs just can't be bothered to get involved with the community, whereas the ones that do (Maggots, Richie etc) are much more popular than some of the people who are hired fresh on Habbox with no community involvement, only have their Habbo friends to rely on to tune in.

The thing is Laura people get tired of trying. For example, the other day I did a competition for coins and points, the listeners got to about 40 odd (which is a lot these days) and everyone refused to do the next slot. That's just one occasion it happens a lot on a daily basis. Fair enough people might have things to do but it's the same people covering time and time again and I don't believe for a second 25 odd staff members are constantly busy at the exact same time. People make excuses, I have to go out, I have to do this but really they're just on skype and browsing the forum. They're entitled to that but it'd be nice if they lend and hand now and then.

There isn't any point in me trying to get high listeners then everyone 'cba' to go on air next. It's a team effort, always has been but it's lost now. Thanks for the comment too I don't believe that though I think habboxlive have loads of fantastic djs much better than me, they just 'cba' most of the time.


@bethany;
I think habboxlive has loads of potential but only if people get off their backside and help.

I understand what you mean about getting tired of trying, but have you brought it up with logan/the seniors? I'm not accusing you here I'm just saying if you don't say anything how are they meant to realise (especially if they're not as active as they could be, for whatever reason). If it's true only a few of the DJs are hosting, isn't it possible to force other people to do more shows? Or actually properly discipline them? I know these aren't things you can do by the way. If they're not interested in hosting after such a high profile event (which would probably get them more fans) then they obviously don't care about the job............ but no I really do think you deserve to have more power as I can imagine you being quite a good senior/manager, nice but still strict enough. That's what being a good manager is all about!!

[Richie]

really i didn't know that

hope it's not another department that just goes downhill because the manager doesn't seem to be open to ideas... if that is true anyway



I completely agree with you, I was just making a comment that perhaps Richie was just trying on his own rather than suggesting to Logan, as I didn't know whether he did this or not. At the end of the day, you can enforce things to be making people write more, even in News we've managed to get our staff churning out 1 article a day which is great compared to a few weeks ago when sometimes we'd have 3 or 4 per week.

Anyway back to HxL issue, we don't know what's going on behind, I think half the issue is because the DJs just can't be bothered to get involved with the community, whereas the ones that do (Maggots, Richie etc) are much more popular than some of the people who are hired fresh on Habbox with no community involvement, only have their Habbo friends to rely on to tune in.



I understand what you mean about getting tired of trying, but have you brought it up with logan/the seniors? I'm not accusing you here I'm just saying if you don't say anything how are they meant to realise (especially if they're not as active as they could be, for whatever reason). If it's true only a few of the DJs are hosting, isn't it possible to force other people to do more shows? Or actually properly discipline them? I know these aren't things you can do by the way. If they're not interested in hosting after such a high profile event (which would probably get them more fans) then they obviously don't care about the job............ but no I really do think you deserve to have more power as I can imagine you being quite a good senior/manager, nice but still strict enough. That's what being a good manager is all about!!

I haven't suggested it to Logan recently but unfortunately it's the same problems over and over again. After this thread I have no doubt that the department will pick up but two or three weeks down the line it's back to square one. It needs to be a constant.

[iLogan]

really i didn't know that

hope it's not another department that just goes downhill because the manager doesn't seem to be open to ideas... if that is true anyway



I completely agree with you, I was just making a comment that perhaps Richie was just trying on his own rather than suggesting to Logan, as I didn't know whether he did this or not. At the end of the day, you can enforce things to be making people write more, even in News we've managed to get our staff churning out 1 article a day which is great compared to a few weeks ago when sometimes we'd have 3 or 4 per week.

Anyway back to HxL issue, we don't know what's going on behind, I think half the issue is because the DJs just can't be bothered to get involved with the community, whereas the ones that do (Maggots, Richie etc) are much more popular than some of the people who are hired fresh on Habbox with no community involvement, only have their Habbo friends to rely on to tune in.



I understand what you mean about getting tired of trying, but have you brought it up with logan/the seniors? I'm not accusing you here I'm just saying if you don't say anything how are they meant to realise (especially if they're not as active as they could be, for whatever reason). If it's true only a few of the DJs are hosting, isn't it possible to force other people to do more shows? Or actually properly discipline them? I know these aren't things you can do by the way. If they're not interested in hosting after such a high profile event (which would probably get them more fans) then they obviously don't care about the job............ but no I really do think you deserve to have more power as I can imagine you being quite a good senior/manager, nice but still strict enough. That's what being a good manager is all about!!

That comes down to getting funding from General Management, which can be hard seeing that there is a lack of funding available.

In terms of suggestions and them not being considered is something new to me. Richie has suggested several changes to the department within the Suggestions Thread and they have been executed! In terms of planning shows, it is something that I think about for a little while and came up with this (with thanks to Richie for the idea)

I think we should try out a new subforum within the HabboxLive staff forum called "Show Plans" or something along those lines. Then in the subforum there is a thread for each DJ where they can plan their shows prior to going on air. I needn't be a big long essay either but something simple so they know what their doing, Richie's example of a Show Plan:

muse - supermassive black hole

**BACKING**

Give updates on the mute and how listener can win some medals

Nelly Furtado - Big Hoops
Blur - Song 2

******RB MIX JUNE ADVERTISEMENT*****

Sam Sparro - Paradise people
rebecca ferguson - gliter & gold

**BACKING**

Give details on the competition and explain to those who haven't already how they can enter the habbox olympics. A few shoutouts (If there is none and you have nothing to say you could make something up).

fat joe - ft ashanti - what's luv
rudimental - feel the love
kanye west - through the wire

**HXL GOSSIP MIX**

benny benassi ft gary go - cinema
coldplay - speed of sound

**BACKING**

Announce the winner of the competition, when i will be back on and the upcoming djs for the rest of the night.

m83 - midnight city
gwen stefani - what you waiting for

I think Show Plans should start off optional, but recommended. If successful we can look at how it can fit in to our medium / long term plans.

I'm always willing to take on board ideas and suggestions on how to improve the department.

[lawrawrrr]

That comes down to getting funding from General Management, which can be hard seeing that there is a lack of funding available.

In terms of suggestions and them not being considered is something new to me. Richie has suggested several changes to the department within the Suggestions Thread and they have been executed! In terms of planning shows, it is something that I think about for a little while and came up with this (with thanks to Richie for the idea)

I'm always willing to take on board ideas and suggestions on how to improve the department.

I'm not talking about funding, you don't need funding to sit with your microphone and some music. I meant, HabboxStarz gets 80 listeners, all the online DJs who say they aren't bothered about keeping Habbox online obviously don't care about the job/their fans or fanbase.

[Kyle]

Why isn't dj rain fired yet lol