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[Catzsy]

right about there.

also, the 300$ for the chat was profit sierk made with habbox, i was in the conversation with mad and sierk when the decision was made, they both wanted it. it has since been said that the running costs don't cover the server costs, just the other day.

So exactly what time are you referring to then? MAD was gm then and I was saying that it was nothing to do with whoever was GM. If it has been him when Habbo stopped VIP then the same would happened so there are no personal comments.

[immense]

Ah, my bad, apologies! Thought you were belittling everything he had done and saying the successes of Habbox I mentioned were nothing to do with the GM. Anyway, it's nice to see that the first page in Spam and Discuss Anything has improved dramatically since this thread. Feedback has been better too, whether that lasts or not, we'll see. Before people say it's spammy threads, I think only one of the influx of threads by myself, Leah and Oli were moved to spam. Rest of them prompted decent conversation.

[Catzsy]

Ah, my bad, apologies! Thought you were belittling everything he had done and saying the successes of Habbox I mentioned were nothing to do with the GM. Anyway, it's nice to see that the first page in Spam and Discuss Anything has improved dramatically since this thread. Feedback has been better too, whether that lasts or not, we'll see. Before people say it's spammy threads, I think only one of the influx of threads by myself, Leah and Oli were moved to spam. Rest of them prompted decent conversation.

No, I never had any complaints about him on the technical side at all. Yes the new threads have prompted discussion
but I do think the 'vegatable' one was scraping the barrel somewhat at the end of a hard thread posting day.

[Tintinnabulate]

MAD obviously did or maybe he just wanted to buy something for the sake of it.

I didnt realise the GM had the power to buy such a thing. In all honesty, it was the stupidest decision - whoever approved it. An awful looking chat system which was never promoted was bound to fail. I don't think they did a poll asking if users wanted it either?

cannot be considered facts as you don't actually know the financial position of Habbox anymore than I do.

Today is your lucky day.
Average running cost per month is £300.
Google advertising revenue bring in about £225 per month.
I think donor brings in about £50-60 per month.

[xxMATTGxx]

I didnt realise the GM had the power to buy such a thing. In all honesty, it was the stupidest decision - whoever approved it. An awful looking chat system which was never promoted was bound to fail. I don't think they did a poll asking if users wanted it either?



Today is your lucky day.
Average running cost per month is £300.
Google advertising revenue bring in about £225 per month.
I think donor brings in about £50-60 per month.

It was later expalined by Jake on what happened regarding the chat system.

[Tintinnabulate]

It was later expalined by Jake on what happened regarding the chat system.

This bit? Anyway, its been scrapped and that's good.

also, the 300$ for the chat was profit sierk made with habbox, i was in the conversation with mad and sierk when the decision was made, they both wanted it. it has since been said that the running costs don't cover the server costs, just the other day.

[Hecktix]

shoutboxes are the worst thing ever

Shoutboxes are horrible. This thread is about trying to work out why people are posting less - not giving them more reason not to post. The one on CHF is barely used anyway I don't think? I am sure I saw a thread posted by Skaterchu that pretty much said a lot of members were actually calling for it to be removed but he wasn't going to. I just don't feel the need for one myself. If you're a fan of spam, it would probably effect that forum most... No more pointless spam threads, you'll just 'shout' it instead.

In agreement with these about shoutboxes.

In comment to the discussion about chat systems going on, you're arguing about the past, this thread is about the future!

[immense]

No, I never had any complaints about him on the technical side at all. Yes the new threads have prompted discussion
but I do think the 'vegatable' one was scraping the barrel somewhat at the end of a hard thread posting day.

LMAO that thread cracks me up, caused so much drama at least 10 different people have said the same thing. I was going to post the fruit equivalent but maybe I'll save that for my next thread posting frenzy :L

[Catzsy]

LMAO that thread cracks me up, caused so much drama at least 10 different people have said the same thing. I was going to post the fruit equivalent but maybe I'll save that for my next thread posting frenzy :L

With the same result!

[Axel]

LMAO and I think my "what vegetable do you resemble" was great, although it got moved to spam after axel kicked up a fuss

And quite rightly. 'What vegetable do you resemble' is quite obviously a spam thread, and you were pushing it with that thread. You, as well as anyone else with half a brain, know that that thread is not worth anything and you were trying to be funny with it, which is supported by the fact that you were laughing about making the thread the whole time in the spam forum. Just because the forum may be becoming inactive, something that I haven't really noticed considering I rarely visit any other section of the forum apart from spam and anime forums, doesn't mean you spamming it with god awful threads will help anything. Although I haven't really noticed a decrease in activity, it is evident that the quality of posts has decreased dramatically, and you're one of the main culprits I've noticed. You know that you spam as much as I do, so please let's not turn this into another argument.

And I'm not just focusing on you. There are plenty of other cases of stupid threads to increase activity. For example, I barely visit the Runescape section, but last time I did there was at least 10 threads on trivial topics like 'what is your favourite rock to mine' and 'what is your favourite tree to cut', all by the same person. Being an ex-runescape player, I know for a fact that people don't think long and hard about what their favourite rock to mine is, and I feel that again they're all just spam threads, which is backed up by the fact that in each of the threads, a certain member would post 'x is my favourite rock to mine', and then once someone else had posted, he'd post 'oh ye i changed my mind, y is actually my favourite rock to mine', which is just obviously a piss take.