News integration on forum

MKR&*42 · 24-06-2013, 10:34 PM

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And all of these could have been written on the site first too as a news reporter originally posted them (yeah all me):

http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=779167
http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=780406
http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=779167
http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=779387
http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=781419

Delay is still an issue for some and some forum users are bound to post news before us now and then, but we do try and get exciting rumours/latest furni etc. out there quick and I can't see a big issue with news-forum integration. The only thing I would do would impose a time limit - e.g. if someone else has made a thread about X and a news reporter goes to write about X, they must write about it within a certain amount of time or it's pointless.

I've been strongly for forum integration for so long and it's a shame it's taken so long to actually come about.

Chippiewill · 24-06-2013, 10:39 PM

One upshot of integrating news is that it would pressure news staff to get the stories out faster.

e5 · 24-06-2013, 10:48 PM

Originally Posted by FlyingJesus

If news staff take days to copy a thread onto the site they have no right to pretend they're journalists of any sort

People getting there before staff shouldn't be an issue - there's no reason why the threads linked to through the site necessarily have to be started by the articles staff. If user_5273 makes a thread about the release of a new duck on Habbo staff can still write their own blurb for the site and then the read more link can just be written as "See what other users think of this matter and give your opinion here" or something. There's currently a grand total of 5 people who've commented on articles this month, mostly staff, with a massively more significant number of people involved in threads on the same topics on the forum. Either the two need to be linked or news is totally dead as a department

That's lovely but I'm not sure where you got the idea of duplicate threads from - if anything this would stop them as it would give one definitive place for discussion about a certain issue to take place where we currently have a nonsensical split between site and forum. Again, if news staff are doing their jobs there shouldn't be a huge delay, and again that's an issue that's faced by the team currently anyway

We're trying to get people to be involved in the news stories not shut them out by putting taglines in closed forums so no-one can discuss anything

you said that you don't want attention taken away from the news&rumours section, so why could "official" Hx news threads not just be posted there and then allow for discussion to take place? The point of having the comments and such on the forum rather than the site is that hardly anyone uses the site comments section and anyone who reads the site news and does want to comment will then come here and become part of the community to do so

I don't have anything against threads with a link to the site such as the example you posted (and that could be good for building traffic both ways), but making it so that people can't talk in them takes away from the entire point, and would be an exact replica of the old bot system which no-one liked

I agree kinda that users should be allowed to comment but were gonna see like 2 threads on the same topic and it's gonna be all over the place

**FlyingJesus** · 24-06-2013, 10:56 PM

Where are these 2 threads coming from?

MKR&*42 · 24-06-2013, 11:04 PM

Originally Posted by FlyingJesus

Where are these 2 threads coming from?

I think he means that a normal forum user will post a thread concerning X furniture item (for example) and a staff member would then write an article concerning X furniture item also, which would result in 2 threads on the same topic. I'm sure someone in this thread discussed that problem though? No?

**FlyingJesus** · 24-06-2013, 11:08 PM

If staff are beaten to news by Joe Average then that's their fault tbh

but I don't see the issue with linking to someone else's thread if that's the one that has the discussion in it - these threads aren't needing to be in a special staff-only area so having a site article that says

blah blah happened to a blah

blah blah blah Bob Loblaw's law blog blah blah see the discussion about this and take part here

with the "here" link being to someone else's thread would work fine. Takes nothing away from the staff role and actually makes it easier in some cases

e5 · 24-06-2013, 11:11 PM

Oh and can I also suggest news reporters carry on doing what intersocial did and if it's a report about a badge room that they link to the guides as that needs as much promotion as possible to succeed

xxMATTGxx · 25-06-2013, 06:16 PM

So basically do what Samanfa and Intersocial already do but make it part of the News Reporters role. If there is a thread about it already, post in the actual thread rather than creating a new thread. I've got that all correct, right?

**FlyingJesus** · 25-06-2013, 06:20 PM

If what Sam and Warden already do is put links in their articles to a relevant forum thread, then yyyyyyyyyup

xxMATTGxx · 25-06-2013, 06:25 PM

Originally Posted by FlyingJesus

If what Sam and Warden already do is put links in their articles to a relevant forum thread, then yyyyyyyyyup

I don't believe they do at the moment but I meant them posting threads with a link to the article. But got you on the thread links in article business.

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