Why did you join HabboxForum? [+Rep]

[Farkir-dk]

Joined because of the action
Stayed becourse I love it

[Absently]

I assume I joined because somebody on the radio told me to do so and back then I was a major radio addict !! I honestly don't know why I stayed, I began making friends I guess throughout the years and then managed to meet my someone special so I have a connection with it

[scottish]

Yeah it was cool but how did you find about about it and why did you join?

HxHD primarily and it was obviously known for RV

[Kyle]

I joined the forum because I was familiar with the helpdesk and everyone on habbo used the main site to value their items so it had a large and diverse userbase. I stayed because the graphics section was the most active and advanced of all habbo forums and there were always things going on. What Ross pointed out is right, there's no reason to use the forum because everybody has the same attitude towards contribution and people very rarely make threads outside of spam or only do so to request help with something (usually in exchange for rep) or sell their furniture or some other service. I've said it before but I'll say it again - there is little to no desire for upper management [and now lower management, staff, and normal members] to interact with their community [unless they want something from them]. Forums are for discussion, not just habbo news, and nobody cares enough to prompt it in any form unless they have something to gain. Figure out what motivates posters (and more importantly thread creators) and build from there. Your issue with user retention lies with the unwelcoming atmosphere and banality of the community that want things but will only passively contribute.

[Calum0812]

1. Why did you join HabboxForum?
To join HabboxLive. I had an interest in radio and remembered that Habbox Fansites had radios. Despite what I said in my very first application (that I was an avid listener), I picked Habbox from the list of official list of fansites at random


2. Why did you stay?
I made friends with people, well, "friends". I then went into other departments for something new and have never really got so bored that I want to go forever

[despect]

1. Why did you join HabboxForum?
I joined HabboxForum because I wanted to become Habbox staff and knew I had to have a Forum account to be Habbox staff so I joined and shortly after become staff.

2. Why did you stay?

I don't want to stay because @Calum0812; is still here. hahaha I joke. I stayed because I liked the community and there was always something to do.

[-:Undertaker:-]

1. Why did you join HabboxForum?

I used Habbox for Rare Values and I used to browse the forum in 2005 as a non-member looking at furniture news in the UK News & Rumours section, then one day the then-General Manager 8Freak8 appeared in my trading room and offered me Habbox sponsorship. I think it was around then it was suggested to me to apply to rare values so I signed up and shortly afterwards became staff after Smiddy1234 hired me.

2. Why did you stay?

Probably rare values really, but then again I got to know a lot of people on the forum and you sort of end up sticking about: I also found Habbox Forum a lot more grown up than the likes of ClubHabbo and ThinkHabbo which were more geared towards younger players imo. I can't say why I stayed after that really, I moved to HHGS job wise and was permed by ---MAD--- for a short while and then was unpermed and came back after Immenseman had asked me to rejoin rare values. Since then i've been here.

I think many of the comments go to show that it was Rare Values which made Habbox in the earlier days and even before the Marketplace was introduced it has been HabboxLive which has grown (and replaced) RVs as the main/most important department by a large margin. It appears that radio shows are still popular on the hotel and a lot of emphasis is placed on them by fansites (look at TH and CH which didn't have RVs - yet how successful they were) so it's pretty clear to me which is our most important asset these days.

[lemons]

1. Why did you join HabboxForum?
when i was into habbo lots i lurked the hab news and rumours forums for a while and one of my friends posted regularly on here so i signed up
2. Why did you stay?
just habit of logging in and sometimes a few interesting threads or comps pop up and have made a few friends

[dbgtz]

1. Why did you join HabboxForum?
Hard to say. It might have been because I became interested in doing graphics, or I might have became interested after joining Habbox. After looking at my posts, it seems like MissAlice got me to sign up to enter competitions then I didn't use it for 4 months and then it became more to do with graphics. Pixel art/alterations used to be quite a big thing in 2006-2008 then it just started to slump until very few people actually posted.

2. Why did you stay?
I was going to say graphics, but I realise it hasn't been good for many more years than I thought. It's hard to say why I stayed around from around 2009-2012 and I suspect if I started to use Reddit sooner, I wouldn't have. I would have to say it's getting to know a lot of the people in greater depth that made me stay which is a result of me using HxF Minecraft server and then being persuaded to come on for HxSS in 2012.

[OldLoveSong]

Cuz i had to in order to become an events organiser and cuz am interested in some of the threads nd people here nd like to know whats going ob