Suggestions for Change

[Grig]

I've worked with Yoshi on habbox world, and he was an excellent manager and really took part in the community. He probably doesn't really do much Habbo stuff anymore as he is the extreme background job of Habbox. So is brandy.

[Shar]

Exactly right. So if you take time to read my post you will see me answer that comment. He takes 3/4 days to do an important part of his job.

I read your post Jake, but I didn't want to feel like I'm targeting Yoshi in particular, I agree with you and I get where you are coming from though.

Edit: @Grig, it's not about what a individual has done in the past, but about what they are doing in the present that actually matters.

[immense]

I think the current general management, bar one, are the best people for the job.

[Shar]

I think the current general management, bar one, are the best people for the job.

They are doing a great job at the moment, in my opinion, and despite all the (negative) feedback, it seems that things are going towards the right direction now.

[nvrspk4]

Reviews of individual members of management will get us nowhere and derail the thread. Garion did a good job of making the topics general for structural reorganization, not personnel-based. If we start discussing individual managers this thread will degenerate and any possible good that could come out of it will probably be lost.

[FlyingJesus]

lol it makes no sense. If it made sense, I'd step aside and let them get on with it. Events and comps are two different jobs. One requires your own furni, the other doesn't. One requires being an active Habbo player, the other doesn't. One takes a lot of time and commitment (events), the other doesn't. Big campaigns can still be done, it's not like keeping the two seperated prevents that from happening however I think you'd see a decline in both if they were to merge.

Something that you always seem to overlook when this comes up is something that you've mentioned yourself there - comps doesn't take a lot of time and commitment. I've long been of the opinion that the comps jobs could be either done by the events team with very little extra effort or if they're unwilling, spread out across the other various community teams. There are a massive TWO competitions is only one competition running currently (sorry the other one is finished but hasn't been moved yet) and I'm fairly sure it wouldn't kill a member of HxHD or a DJ or an events organiser to pick out a thread from the comps vault and stick it in the public view every few days

How about we call this the "Community Manager" OMG NO WAY.

Hey, there's a title that rings a bell...

AGM Staff is honestly, by default, second in command. The staff job is time consuming, but it's not an entire mandate. For that reason, an AGM staff takes care of all the little things, and the big things. For example, as AGM staff I spearheaded a lot of special events, and at times worked with my other two AGMs to solve problems in specific departments when they related to staffing issues. Now, there is the option here that the AGM (Staff) could absorb the role of managing the content departments (apart from the actual Content Department which would fall under AGM (Site)), especially since there are fewer.

I agree entirely, AGM Staff needs to be a powerful figure who can lead from the 2nd line. You did it, and to an extent David did it after your rise to full power (although after a while it was clear that Sam was doing his job for him lol) and it's definitely a role that requires a bit more than just what's set out in the title. A weak AGM Staff means a weak overall staff force, so it makes sense that someone in this position is well enabled to assist the GM across the whole board, HILARIOUS forum pun not intended

They both have excellent leadership qualities and should really have become AGM of staff or something.

"Used to have" I believe - they're both too far removed from everything now. Much love to them both but they are not leaders any more

[Grig]

Yeh, but I don't think Jin or Matt like an AGM of staff that are too 'powerful' from what I hear, which is a shame.

[Mathew]

[QUOTE=HotelUser;6789236]If our dearest Timmy went into the Help Desk and inquired as to how reputation works on the forum a moderator would be just as able to answer the question infront of the bar as they would behind it.
In that case, it brings back the age-old question of: Why is there a bar?
Oh I'm going to regret saying that if there's a mass debate about it turning into a lounge

I know Jordan is very enthusiastic about desk events and HxHD endorsement and I think in coherence with Roxy and the department's staff things are going to take off quite nicely.

It's been really good having Jordesh (along with Lizzie and Sammify) helping out with events over the halloween period and it's worked quite nicely with HxHD getting involved in that fashion. Maybe you should encourage some of your staff to join events full time

Naturally, I disagree with the competitions and events merge because the work-load would be simply too much if they were combined. There's a lot of "admin work" (as they say) in Competitions and to be fair, it's not the sort of thing that should be getting mixed in with client events.

I've never understood why rule breaks on the forum must be directed to the AGM (Staff). Staff misbehaviour on the forum should be treated exactly the same as a normal member and the same procedures followed. If a staff member is being constantly "rowdy," then a note should be sent to the staff AGM so they can discuss their position and responsibilities.

[Inseriousity.]

Something that you always seem to overlook when this comes up is something that you've mentioned yourself there - comps doesn't take a lot of time and commitment. I've long been of the opinion that the comps jobs could be either done by the events team with very little extra effort or if they're unwilling, spread out across the other various community teams. There are a massive TWO competitions is only one competition running currently (sorry the other one is finished but hasn't been moved yet) and I'm fairly sure it wouldn't kill a member of HxHD or a DJ or an events organiser to pick out a thread from the comps vault and stick it in the public view every few days

However, the one thing you always seem to overlook is that there is actually a lot of hidden work. There are currently no competitions atm because of this hidden work. I have to PM winners, give out prizes, request vip/rep etc and it certainly could not be dumped on one manager so I am against the events-comps merge. I did, however, say further in this thread that if general management wanted to disband the comps department and spread it out between the community departments, that would work a lot better than the merge that was suggested, although even that is not exactly ideal. In some departments, the staff struggle to do the job they do at the minute never mind adding more on top. Also, comps don't appear in the 'comp vault' out of nowhere, they do actually take time to do and at times when people complain about the lack of competitions as it is , it makes you wonder what they'd be complaining about if competitions were to be an 'add-on' of another department.

[FlyingJesus]

Does it take 9 members of staff to give out a prize then? Congratulatory PMs can be very much cookie-cutter things with a few areas changed each time just for winner's name, comp name and what their prize is, and requesting the VIP/rep consists of a PM to the appropriate person and logging it as processing or done as necessary. The only bit that truly requires any time and coordination is for sorting the prizes on the hotel, which granted has been made more difficult since the removal of donation rooms but surely can't account for the chronic lack of activity