Habbo X's returning?

[e5]

Sounds interesting! With my knowledge of Habbo and my experience, I should meet the criteria for this.

[MKR&*42]

Aha, he is discussing this in international hotels (Paul LaFo) - Quite interesting to be honest, I'll post a thread with all he's said later x

[xxMATTGxx]

Thanks for your thoughtful notes that add to the discussion about the HabboCM concept. Your points about maturity and automated activity are correct in principle. We hear you loud and clear.

The problem we're solving is how to use technology to restore the best elements of the Hobba program. Experienced users like yourself have identified the Hobba as something that was good. The good news is we're bringing the good parts of it back. The better news is that we're going to use technology to keep it from collapsing like Hobba did.

In the day, Hobbas were hand picked. Because hand picking people doesn't scale and there were no technically enabled feedback loops on Hobba performance, some Hobbas abused their position and the program has to be stopped. The problem was that social media techniques and technology was not leveraged. We all have more experience with that today, and can design a smart program that works.

The design challenge is to make a system that will identify mature, experience players through their measured activity while ensuring oversight so botting, abuse of power and other misuses of the system are not allowed. And where they occur, they can be quickly identified and corrected. There will be guards for the guards.

It is a question of design, balance, resources and oversight. Mods will remain as the backbone to a system of mature HabboCMs and as a line of restraint should a HabboCM behave inappropriately. HabboCM's will not ban. They will make recommendations in serious cases. Mods still have the chats logs and the button. HabboCM's may have the ability to kick users or let everyone cool down when the situation tense. Similar to the two hour ban.

Will there be individual cases of abuse and inappropriate behavior? Sure. And I'm putting faith that the larger group of experienced, mature HabboCM's will identify the perpetrators and help curb the behavior. If not, users will be able to appeal to a mod and we have the button.

At the end of the day we want the same thing. Mature users with appropriate tools to help guide situations out of problems and help well intentioned mistakes from escalating. This concept works in many other online services. We just have to design it and balance it well for Habbo.

My commitment to you is we are not going to go into a room, design a thing and launch it into the community without bringing it to you first. We won't launch it to 10M without testing it and balancing it on a willing few. That is what we are doing here. And your well thought out points will be incorporated into what we build.

That's how we're going to work together and make the service great.

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/gdhrgn

[MKR&*42]

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/gdhrgn

Well thank God they're not going to actually be banning users - a say in whether someone deserves a ban is enough. & I wonder what..

"let everyone cool down when the situation tense. Similar to the two hour ban."

Is? :L

[xxMATTGxx]

There have been many questions about contests and the staff changes. We had to modernize the contests as they were not reaching enough people. We know they are popular, and we want more people to have access to them.

We had 15 people manually running contests in Habbo and we think they reached about 2000 people each week. We have over 2.5M people each week visit Habbo. That means approximately 1 in 1000 people had access to contests. That is not fair, and its not good a product that reaches such a small portion of users.

We want to have contests that are as widely available as Snowstorm. That means over 25% of Habbos have access to them, which means each week we should have 625,000 people participating in contests. Doing that manually as we were we would need 4,700 contest creators and we don't have that much staff. That's more people creating contests than were participating in them in the first place!

We think a solution is to give senior, experienced Habbos tools to create contests. Then we have local contests run by experienced people who enjoy entertaining other Habbos. We can have an award system with safeguards so we don't devalue badges and other awards. What that looks like is complicated, and we are still working on it. We need your input.

When will it roll out and who will be able to host contests? We are working on that too. We want to roll this out as soon as we can and many of the builder staff making the designs were the ones who used to conduct contests.

As I tweeted about with respect to HabboCM and abuse of tools there is always risk when giving people additional capabilities. So we have to provide the tools, check for things that don't work well, fix it then expand until we have a really robust contest capability.

That's what we're thinking about contests and we want to hear more from you all about how we are thinking here so we can create the best site possible.

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[Mathew]

I like how they are not getting much power.. they can't ban you..they will be able to forward the reports to the mod! its really simple

It's simple until the moderators get complacent and leave the "chosen few" to do whatever they like. Paul's intentions seem good I guess. I think it's cute how he's always playing the CEO role and emphasising the whole "we will work together". Amazing to see how business management styles have changed over the decades.

[Pigperson]

Sounds really good, I'd love to take part

Will