Staff Forums

[AgnesIO]

When I was a noob and all staff posted I found it really interesting seeing all different types of staff around, when I was a News Reporter in the early days the interaction between the news team and the news and rumours forum community was awesome.

When you were a noob?

It's true though - I used to love talking to staff, as a young new user you think of staff as really cool people (oh how naive we are when we are young ). I was going to say - the news team should post in the habbo news bit more surely?

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Removing staff spam threads won't give them a reason or incentive to post either.

If you can't post in the staff bit, you have to post somewhere.

[Martin]

When I was a noob and all staff posted I found it really interesting seeing all different types of staff around, when I was a News Reporter in the early days the interaction between the news team and the news and rumours forum community was awesome.

That happens on hffm where they post the news directly onto the forum etc. I agree though that the Habbo section in particular is one where news reporters would probably be best suited to post in.

the news team should post in the habbo news bit more surely?

Yeah I do agree. However there's nothing currently forcing reporters to post around that forum, and some of them aren't even into habbo, and are more entertainment/sports reporters etc. I do notice reporters posting there however and will try and persuade them to do this. I guess they do their part of the analysis of the habbo news when they write the article for the site with their opinions and try to gain comments/opinions from the reader etc.

[Inseriousity.]

If you can't post in the staff bit, you have to post somewhere.

That's my point though. No you don't.

[AgnesIO]

That's my point though. No you don't.

I didn't word that right.

If you have any interest in posting, and not just because it is exclusive to you, you will probably be post somewhere on the public forum.

Sorry I didn't mean to say 'you have to'

[Inseriousity.]

If you had an interest in posting, you'd probably post anyway regardless of the presence of a spam forum.

[AgnesIO]

If you had an interest in posting, you'd probably post anyway regardless of the presence of a spam forum.

As I have said - I know when I was staff, because the spam forum was there (and normally the thread that had been posted in last) I literally only posted in there. Every time I have been staff, my general activity on the public forums dropped, because I did not see the need to search different forums with the staff ones being at the top.

[GommeInc]

Have a Staff "Common Room" forum, for any staff related discussions that revolve around Habbox Staff, but a discuss anything forum should be removed as it serves no purpose, other than a staff version of an already existent forum.

[Inseriousity.]

All you'd really be doing though is renaming the forum as that's pretty much what happens in the discuss anything forum anyway tbh.

[-Danube-]

In regards to the RV Spam thread:

Yes it is huge, yes it does contribute greatly to staff bonding and i feel without it i would find it hard to keep my staff as a team. Closing the thread itself i doubt would benefit the forum what so ever, at the moment most of the conversation within the spam thread is nothing majorly constructive that you can make a thread about. Alot of it is just how you would talk to someone on msn etc just saying what they have done today and things like that. Other posts are just spams, like loads of random stuff posted one after each other so that the person can become number 1 poster in that thread (there's a little bit of competition between who is number 1 poster in the thread, which again i think contributes to staff bonding) I think there is a place for spam threads within department forums.

However, like you said about the 'Habbox Staff - Talk about Anything' some of the topics that come up could be posted within the forum and could contribute to a discussion. Rather than closing it down altogether i think that maybe it should be more strictly moderated, any thread that should be in a public section should be moved there and after staff time members will start to post in the correct location.

But ATM i think there is a need for such forums as it aids with bonding between staff in different department which makes us act like more of a team. But i do agree that because a large chunk of the forum are staff members, we need to start stimulating more discussions outside of the staff forums.

[-:Undertaker:-]

Our department has a staff thread and has done since before 2006 - I really cannot see any problem in regards to them, other than nit-picking. If we are going to regulate and create rules regarding staff spam threads, well that says it all really.

Surely the random stuff could go in the normal spam section then? I don't see why an extra forum is needed - I remember when I was staff just as an RV reporter (an example) there were like 4/5 forums I could see if I remember rightly - only two of them meant anything at all - that being the habbox bit (discussion about hx only), and obviously the rv bit to report values. I didn't need the spam thread - I only used it because it was there - not because I preferred it to the normal forums.

..and i'd put it to you that it was nice to have been given that choice.