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[MKR&*42]

I find it very odd so many swear words are supposedly allowed to be said on HabboxLive but we can't say them on the forum, it doesn't make sense.
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Okay I read the giant post and I don't take much interest to HabboxLive that much anymore (only if there's some weekly show on likee songs from 90s or stuff like that) but it is incredibly odd that there are more staff and less slots being booked, also combined with the fact all exams are nearly over so if anything it should be going up more and more?

[Becca]

I thought nearly most swear words were allowed in songs on HabboxLive. There were just like a low number that were still banned such as the N word.

nah literally ALL songs are banned, I think the B word for dog is allowed and that's it...

[Calum0812]

Did notice recently when looking at the timetable that it isn't as full as I thought it would be (in GMT hours even) but wasn't sure if that was a new thing or had always been the case since I never used to look. Very strange that there are more slots open now with more staff though

I know a lot of staff have said that they aren't sure very far in advance as to when they're available so to save missing a slot, they'll book "last minute", with last minute being defined as a few hours before hence it looks quite empty.
Another thing is that quite a few people are going away on holiday but we still have enough active staff to keep the timetable filled so I'll make sure that the head DJs check that everyone prebooks for next week!

tbh there isn't anyone in the whole department apart from you that constantly gets these sorts of numbers, and as you say it doesn't even matter what time you're on. I think as fab as the shows you do are it's actually more because you're so much more of a community figure - you're always around being friendly and having a presence both on the forum and on the client, while a huge majority of DJs have only one of these at best. You mention somewhere in this post about community activity and I think really that is the biggest issue that the department faces at the moment, possible even the only one that really matters

It is a big issues we face but it certainly isn't a new one. We do encourage DJs to use Habbo and the Forum but considering (as someone said I think) we are a department that lends ourselves to people who don't like Habbo and don't like forums. Sometimes people only sign up to these to come and DJ. However, DJing at a Habbo fansite should have some sort of community requirement, I agree.

Totally agree, and the reason that's been given in this thread is that the funding is being used to reward the DJs personally instead... essentially meaning that DJs are being given a wage that previous staff never had for doing less work than anyone did before. The allocation of funds across all of Habbox is a bit of a mystery frankly

After re-stocking the giveaway account and selling some stuff, we do actually have quite a healthy fund so I'll admit we may have been wrong to push the idea of NO WE WON'T so quickly. We can look at this later but I think it needs to be more structured with a similar style to the Events Vault thing as in we will provide THIS for THIS and THIS for THIS.

I can't speak for the frequency of HxL events because I'm not so active myself on the client/radio side of things in the last few weeks, but I will say in their favour that every single HxL event I've been to has been above and beyond the basic requirements and outstrips the work of actual HxE staff by miles. I understand that they're expensive to host sometimes (like having a throne prize for the sleepover) but realistically the amount of people who will just get involved because it's hilarious to be stuck in a room with a bunch of strangers and fight them over nothing is astounding, and even crap prizes like a cactus or 3 cabbages will bring people in if the atmosphere is right from the start which I think HxL events do rather well, even if they are a bit more sparse than you'd like

I think we need to find a balance between hosting events and making the events department useless (because they'd be doing the same thing as us) and the other end of the scale where we sit isolated to a Shoutcast server.

Is this still a thing I lit never knew about that, the only problem I can see with it is that HxL has a massive turnaround of staff coming in and out every week so might be a bother to keep updated, but it would be quite nice to have if managers don't mind updating it every so often. Most likely something we'll get promised to come with V7...

I'm not suprised you didn't know about it, I don't think many people do. Basically, on the panel there is a profile section and it gets stored into the database, however, it's not actually put to any use on the site or on the forum or anything. I'll PM Mark and ask him how long he thinks it might take. (for the thing to be coded, not V7...)

I like this idea; obv radio is about music but if people just want to listen to the songs they like they can do that without HxL, so providing something extra through the personalities that are hosting is really quite important and having more than one person on air obviously makes the show more conversational. Guests is a really nice idea that I'd like to see more of, it's just an issue of trust and equipment I suppose

Quite a few DJs struggle to use VAC because either their internet can't handle it or it won't work, despite the guide on the forum. However, there is no doubting that having guests on air (I think team leaders in HxSS is a fantastic opportunity) is a good idea.

Personally I think that quality is something that HxL by necessity has to risk at certain points in order to keep up the turnaround of staff that makes it function at such good capacity - for every crap session (which to be fair get reported early and have in certain cases been saved by more experienced staff partway through the slot) there are at the very least another 40 or so that are absolutely on point as well as the odd gem that really gets the listeners interested. As long as the heads and management continue to support new DJs as they historically have done rather well. Changing the trial process isn't in my eyes something that needs to be done, I think it's really well handled at present and has been for a long time even accounting for the odd few disasters

The Head DJs do a good job at making people feel welcome as much as they can as entering into a big department must be at least slightly daunting for a new member. They also try and provide one on one feedback (either through Skype or PM on the forum), especially during their trial period to ensure they pass. This system works well because Head DJs are able to get to know their DJs inside out.

The call-in thingy works quite well as an opportunity for people to try out DJing or just have a bit of a laugh on air on an otherwise boring night in, I think with proper moderation guest DJing could definitely be pushed and would be great for community interaction

It'd be nice to see this make a return as it was a good show that I know a lot people enjoyed both listening to and having the opportunity to be apart of.

Split on this. On the one hand I have no problem with swearing in the music I listen to and since most of the music on HxL is illegally downloaded and whatnot there's no radio ethics issue BUT allowing swearing opens the gates for a lot of ridiculous songs that are composed entirely of swearing that are obvzzzz totes hilarious!! as well as racism and all sorts. It could be allowed with DJ discretion but let's be honest not all of them are possessed of huge amounts of common sense

If we did lift the filter, we'd be spending quite a bit of time looking at the banned songs list to ban some of the stuff that is just a complete joke and is unacceptable to play on a radio.

*REMOVED*

I think this might be better suited in complaints to be completely honest

I thought nearly most swear words were allowed in songs on HabboxLive. There were just like a low number that were still banned such as the N word.

Correct, a lot of the common ones were unbanned, I would post a list of them here but quite a lot of them are forum filtered. If anyone is interested, PM me.

[xxMATTGxx]

nah literally ALL songs are banned, I think the B word for dog is allowed and that's it...

I think you are allowed the following:


Bitch
Ass
Crap
Whore
Dick
Twat
Bastard
Shit
Faggot/s

[Jssy]

Just had a read of this. When I DJed before we did win a room with DJ Ice, me and him and Kristina would do that and it was great it would draw in loads of listeners, so if no one does win a room I'd be happy to. I think generally the listeners dropping is definitely with how much less people playing habbo. Everytime I go on habbo theres only 2 or 3 thousand, and when I used to be on there'd easily be 15 thousand. We all need to work together as the team that we are and set ourselves aside from other fansites, show our passion to listeners to want them to listen to us. There's some great ideas here and I'm sure we can all make it a success

[!x!dude!x!2]

Amen to Gina !! Preach it sister!!

Total agree with her on this 100% And habbox does need more weekly shows. Bring in a morning show like I was going to do when I returned ?

[FlyingJesus]

That was supposed to say "Habbo activity needs to improve" bit my phone autocorrected it

Oh that does make more sense fair enough lol

I think we need to find a balance between hosting events and making the events department useless

Think they're doing that all by themselves nah 4real though I understand not wanting to belittle any other departments but it's something that I think a lot of DJs do well so it shouldn't be suppressed either

Quite a few DJs struggle to use VAC because either their internet can't handle it or it won't work, despite the guide on the forum. However, there is no doubting that having guests on air (I think team leaders in HxSS is a fantastic opportunity) is a good idea.

I'm assuming VAC is some multi-call host type thingy, I know nothing about the technical side because I've never DJd but if it's not something everyone can do then maybe make it something that's pushed more for Head DJs rather than someone who's just joined

[Gina]

Oh that does make more sense fair enough lol



Think they're doing that all by themselves nah 4real though I understand not wanting to belittle any other departments but it's something that I think a lot of DJs do well so it shouldn't be suppressed either



I'm assuming VAC is some multi-call host type thingy, I know nothing about the technical side because I've never DJd but if it's not something everyone can do then maybe make it something that's pushed more for Head DJs rather than someone who's just joined

yeah VAC is the program used to double dj
i made a guide on it like updated vers and dj cain did another after so it isnt too easy to use except some peoples pcs will start lagging on air liek i know osmetimes i cant go on habbo when doubling but tht seems to be fixed now (fab time to fix ;l) i know danny head dj popcorn has it tho

[lemons]

habboxlive bores me to death recently


sometimes the auto dj habboquests radio is more interesting

[Lewis]

I find it very odd so many swear words are supposedly allowed to be said on HabboxLive but we can't say them on the forum, it doesn't make sense.
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Okay I read the giant post and I don't take much interest to HabboxLive that much anymore (only if there's some weekly show on likee songs from 90s or stuff like that) but it is incredibly odd that there are more staff and less slots being booked, also combined with the fact all exams are nearly over so if anything it should be going up more and more?

I think they're not allowed as the majority of people use them to target others. But obviously this isn't always the case lol