Competitions

[FlyingJesus]

Giving out prizes is no longer as simple as dropping prizes into a donation room. If it was, that list would all be green, I'm sure. In November, there was no AGM for Community as Catszy was ill and Jin isn't always the fastest. Then Roxy came in December/January and decided to do the prizes herself (to avoid having to get them from someone to pass to her to get her to pass to me) and she decided to stick with the more recent winners rather than the November ones. Now, she's passed this back onto me recently so I'm going through it as quickly as possible. I'm not a robot, it's a lot more difficult than it looks.

You do know it's now the end of June right? As far as I'm aware the changes to donation room dropping is somewhat recent, and while you mention that it was Roxy's plan to give out prizes to more recent winners instead of dealing with the backlog (which has never been a good idea in any circumstance) I can't see much excuse for it going 7 months out of date unless you've only been given control of it in the last month, in which case I apologise and will allow blame to pass to Roxy on that point.

[Inseriousity.]

I think my thread's glitched so I have to post again apparently.

edit: oh lol im confused

[hah]

You posted a thread in December, we listened, we changed:

- 40 competitions a month rather than 10
- Shorter, 5 minutes competitions rather than 'essays'
- More frequent (two a day)
- Shorter waiting time. 5 days rather than a month
- Removing colour from competitions (feedback suggested it was impossible to see most of the colours except red and... blue I think)
- Rep prizes
- Less 'technical' competitions, including removing the terms and conditions to a stickied thread (which was your idea).
- Pictures on competitions (another of your ideas).

All of these were suggested in the December thread and it's insulting to everyone who worked hard to change it that you think we didn't listen.

As for the HxWC, it recieved 538 entries compared to the previous month's 270, so I see no justification for calling it a failure. It's not a load of ******** because people drop off the radar constantly. Right now, there might be people applying for Habbox Big Brother who won't be here by the time applications close. Oli will be able to weed out the inactive people but we couldn't do that with this, so we didn't expect everyone to enter, so I think it's silly to say 2/3 didn't enter comps because they're crap, there may be other reasons that meant they didn't enter. 13 teams got goals, that means at least one of their teammates would have had to enter, 14 teams didn't. That's just under half, not under 1/3.

You didn't suggest any sites to me and I was unaware of these sites so I just assumed you meant get the graphics department to make them. Now we have these, it'll be easier. All you suggested was iaza, which we have used before.

Well there was no need to move them up to 40, quality over quantity, something which obviously isn't the case with your department. Something like 25/30 should have done. Yes you listened to the people when they said shorter competitions but they are still boring. Yes you also listened to a lot of ideas, but not the ones where people asked for competitions to become more interesting.

The reason that WC event got so many entries is because people were made aware of it and there was big prizes, also prizes for first, second and third place therefore more chances of people winning. It can still mean they are boring.

So if one person from each team entered you would consider that 100% of people taking part? No it's not, its only 27 people, so i am right when i say only one third of people entered.

Actually i did suggest these sites, anyone with common sense would have looked at the Habbox site for images if i didnt suggest them so dont even go there. I suggested them in the original thread and in another thread when i said the ones you were using were tacky.

I don't know what ex-staff you've been talking to but I do like these competitions. For example, here's the latest anagrams competition: http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=649857 which was this month. As for the 'which food best describes you' competition, it was posted by a trialist and you can't expect perfection from them straight away. They learn as they go on. That competition still recieved 20 entries and the threads are popular in General Discussion so I see no reason to not continue with this. They do well.

But by the looks of things you edit all threads, and approve all competitions so surely you would have know it wasn't too good. :rolleyes:

As for VIP, Saurav is right, we're limited to 8 months of VIP a month. It was 6 when I arrived and I asked nvr to boost it up to 8. They recently tried to bring it down to 7 but I told them that people liked VIP (it was mentioned a lot in our feedback surveys as well) so they kept it at 8.

You dont have to give a month of VIP out
you could give 2 weeks and break it up



I wonder which competition staff voted yes, guessing its this person who cant read Dilusionate

[Phil]

Difference between can't and can't be bothered to read the rest of the rant.

[Roxy]

You do know it's now the end of June right? As far as I'm aware the changes to donation room dropping is somewhat recent, and while you mention that it was Roxy's plan to give out prizes to more recent winners instead of dealing with the backlog (which has never been a good idea in any circumstance) I can't see much excuse for it going 7 months out of date unless you've only been given control of it in the last month, in which case I apologise and will allow blame to pass to Roxy on that point.

I started off giving it to the most recent winners so people who had won in the last few weeks so the massive backlog didn't continue (so I assume that's what Mike meant) however within a week or so I'd worked the whole way back down to November (was about February time I got enough HCs to give out all the prizes) and I pm'd every winner since November and tried to chase them up to give them their prize, 99% sure I managed to pm everyone although if anyone reads this and think's they've been missed out then I appologise. Anyone who I managed to find / replied to the pms will have been given their prize.

[hah]

Difference between can't and can't be bothered to read the rest of the rant.

Its feedback and with that attitude no wonder people are complaining, you dont care about it at all

[Phil]

Its feedback and with that attitude no wonder people are complaining, you dont care about it at all

If I didn't care about competitions I wouldn't be in the department. Yes this is feedback and what I've read I'll take into account for my competitions.

[hah]

Difference between can't and can't be bothered to read the rest of the rant.

If I didn't care about competitions I wouldn't be in the department. Yes this is feedback and what I've read I'll take into account for my competitions.

You just called it a rant, can you make up your mind please?

[Tintinnabulate]

Difference between can't and can't be bothered to read the rest of the rant.

I don't understand your post :S Seems pointless ... unless you can explain what the hell it means.

[FlyingJesus]

I started off giving it to the most recent winners so people who had won in the last few weeks so the massive backlog didn't continue (so I assume that's what Mike meant) however within a week or so I'd worked the whole way back down to November (was about February time I got enough HCs to give out all the prizes) and I pm'd every winner since November and tried to chase them up to give them their prize, 99% sure I managed to pm everyone although if anyone reads this and think's they've been missed out then I appologise. Anyone who I managed to find / replied to the pms will have been given their prize.

That's fair enough then as long as they have been contacted, I won't hold anyone to blame if the users themselves simply haven't got back to you. Simply looked like this hadn't been the case because some of the winners from a few months back have still been posting, but yeah not much you can do about it if the winners don't reply once you got hold of them

what I've read I'll take into account for my competitions.

But you just said you didn't read it