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[Chippiewill]

Each member of the department tries there hardest !

their* Call yourself a news reporter? :p

I think it's unfair how you singled out his report and didn't speak in general terms about someone of the reports you have seen, to make things more fair.

I think it was indicated why he was 'singled out' as it were.

The best way to go is to PM Nuxty with a complaint or something you noticed, and then leave it to Nuxty to contact that reporter to give him tips on how to improve.

I think it's important not to sweep stuff under the carpet, otherwise people are more inclined to ignore it.

[e5]

Sorry for the rushed reply - I probably made several mistakes myself - however that is not important! I do think its great for you to give feedback. I just thought that your first post singled him out, and he did take it very well to be fair to him. Just wanted to see a more generalised post made to begin with!

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their* Call yourself a news reporter? :p


I think it was indicated why he was 'singled out' as it were.

I think it's important not to sweep stuff under the carpet, otherwise people are more inclined to ignore it.

Corrected my mistake

I still don't think it's fair to have a news reporter singled out - no matter what they did. It's unfair to do so, in my opinion.

I wouldn't call PM'ing the News Manager to inform him of his errors is sweeping anything under the carpet! It's probably the best way to go about it as they'd like to be recognised by their manager and to be given tips on how to improve.

[Chippiewill]

I just thought that your first post singled him out, and he did take it very well to be fair to him.

Sorry to the news reporter who posted this, but it was linked on the forum, so obviously it will be the one I point out.

Pretty generalised tbh.

[e5]

It still doesn't warrant this reporter being singled out for his errors Your post won't justify it to me, so no point trying, sorry.

[Chippiewill]

It still doesn't warrant this reporter being singled out for his errors Your post won't justify it to me, so no point trying, sorry.

Sorry, I'm under the impression that you're saying he shouldn't use evidence in his argument.

Edit:

Something which was targetting a member would be like:

OMG, e5 is abusing Shift+1 in his articles because he's noob and he should be fired, he's such a terrible news reporter

(By the way I did just see that)

Edit2: Actually, just looking through some articles some of them have some pretty terrible editorial mistakes that should probably be checked.
Edit3: If the Habbox News department has an Editor they seriously need to do their job because some of this is atrocious.

[e5]

Sorry, I'm under the impression that you're saying he shouldn't use evidence in his argument.

Edit:

Something which was targetting a member would be like:

(By the way I did just see that)

Edit2: Actually, just looking through some articles some of them have some pretty terrible editorial mistakes that should probably be checked.
Edit3: If the Habbox News department has an Editor they seriously need to do their job because some of this is atrocious.

I didn't believe was any argument. I think he was pointing out something, however like I said, singling out a member of staff who gives up him time to post news on Habbox isn't fair...

As far as I am aware, the manager edits the news reports - Not heard of a news editor as of yet - Would be a good idea!

We appreciate constructive critisism.

[Chippiewill]

I didn't believe was any argument. I think he was pointing out something, however like I said, singling out a member of staff who gives up him time to post news on Habbox isn't fair...

How was he meant to point something out without actually pointing at an example?

[HotelUser]

How was he meant to point something out without actually pointing at an example?

The example used in the initial post here was fair enough because it was just one of many examples the poster could have picked from to justify their point thoroughly.

However, if you are going to post constructive criticisms as to how you think the quality of news overall can be improved than do so. You have a valid point that articles should be checked for errors more thoroughly and we will put in the efforts to see that this is done, however if you wish to address any specific errors retaining to any specific news reporters individually drop us a PM. Posting such things would be like posting a thread about Habbox Live and criticizing one DJ specifically which is entirely unfair to that individual

[Nuxty]

I didn't believe was any argument. I think he was pointing out something, however like I said, singling out a member of staff who gives up him time to post news on Habbox isn't fair...

As far as I am aware, the manager edits the news reports - Not heard of a news editor as of yet - Would be a good idea!

We appreciate constructive critisism.

As News Manager I do edit things and the Senior Writers are also there to assist me in this, however yesterday I wasn't around until late and then a member of staff directed me to this thread.

Also, to update you all on this, I made some changes to this reporters article and I removed some of the bolds so that only key and important information is in bold! Sorry if any of this sounds unclear, I am writing this on my iPhone!

[Conservative,]

I agree with the points mentioned. But Charlie does his best I'm sure The one idea that came to my attention was of an editor - which would be good - someone who has/is been in the department before and has very good grammar skills who doesn't necessarily write articles, but to help Charlie with all his other duties - just corrects spelling mistakes etc. in articles to improve the overall standard of them, because there are a few grammar/spelling mistakes in a few of the articles!