Sudden drop in posts

[Kyle]

How can community departments foster forum participation

[FlyingJesus]

By bringing people in to the communityyyyyyyyyyyyyy

[Inseriousity.]

Not just forum participation, community participation (and obviously it goes without saying that the community departments play the pivotal role in that!).

When I was competitions manager (the first time), Alex and I became known as spammers as we'd just spam Habbo with the comps link. Entries increased from less than a 100 a month when I started to 500 a month when I resigned. We used to switch back and forth between Runescape and Habbo. It was not a coincidence that the months we spent on Habbo were the months our entries were higher. We did that by talking to them, becoming friends with them and those very same people that entered competitions also hung out in the help desk, attended events, listened to HxL, were addicted to tournaments and entered big events and posted around the forum.

Habbox management have for a long time now been able to avoid Habbo. The Habbos came to us so we didn't need to go to them. They are no longer coming to us so we have to go to them. It's hard, it'd be so much easier just to tweak with the rules or change a few staff roles but forum activity will continue to decrease and we'll be having this same thread in 6 months time and it'll be even harder.

[Kasabian]

never fear

Edited by Expling (Forum Moderator): Please do not post pointlessly!

[-:Undertaker:-]

Why don't we do big huge givaways where people recieve a piece of furniture once they've signed up to the forum? Like the old days.

Back to basics as John Major famously said.