Suggestions for Change

[Mrs.McCall]

Have to agree.

8Freak8 was always my favourite GM because, even though he was stubborn, he really knew what he was doing and he would always make sure everything was, in his opinion, for the best. Sometimes though his judgement was a little iffy and that'd cause arguments and tension. He wasn't a social GM. People knew who he was on Habbo but he wasn't a major fan of posting loads around the forum and hanging out on Habbo.

xxMattGxx however is a social GM. He posts around the forum, he listens to people and he still gets the job done. He's a delegator and he knows his stuff. He allows people to make their own mistakes because, at the end of the day, the only way you can find out if an idea will work is to try it. I think Matt is outstanding in what he does and I think that criticism of him is quite unfair. He's just different to the GMs we've had before.

[Yupt]

Just going to post a small reply, I'll write my essay on this matter once I'm home come the weekend (presuming this thread is still hot at the time)

But ew, comps and events merging is a horrible idea. Competitions is a small department but with a big influence, on the other hand, events are a larger department (I think) who seem to be in a low ATM. Merging the two would make a meadocre department falling somewhere between the standards of the two. I think comps are doing great as they are (obvs, look at the amazing staff, love u guys xox) and the quote "why fix something which isn't broken" springs to mind, events on the other hand needs a little push. I think management need to concentrate more on fixing events than jumping to rash decisions and merging departments.

[Mathew]

On the other hand, events are a larger department (I think) who seem to be in a low ATM.
Merging the two would make a meadocre department falling somewhere between the standards of the two.
Events on the other hand needs a little push. I think management need to concentrate more on fixing events than jumping to rash decisions and merging departments.

Well it's easy to see you've been away, Mike. We're not in a competition here, but you might want to check the Community Notice Board and the Events Schedule and reword that

Granted though, in my opinion events was at an all-time low a couple of weeks ago; going a couple of days without any events at all. However I do think the new set of trialists and the Habboxween tournament has certainly improved things. Since last Saturday there's been 35 events with at least another 10 planned before next week.

[Yupt]

Well it's easy to see you've been away, Mike. We're not in a competition here, but you might want to check the Community Notice Board and the Events Schedule and reword that

Granted though, in my opinion events was at an all-time low a couple of weeks ago; going a couple of days without any events at all. However I do think the new set of trialists and the Habboxween tournament has certainly improved things. Since last Saturday there's been 35 events with at least another 10 planned before next week.

Awesome, both departments are doing well, so there's no need to merge them. Hot.

[Mathew]

Awesome, both departments are doing well, so there's no need to merge them. Hot.

Agreed

[Mrs.McCall]

Controversially, I agree with a merge. Competitions & Events could work well as one department in my opinion as I do feel they're extremely similar. A similar argument was made back when Articles was running to merge Articles and News and I agreed with that too. I think merging makes a department stronger but understand this is a controversial move. I just feel it'd benefit members more as the scope of competitions could be bigger.. a competition could be stretched out to an event. It make things more exciting.

[Inseriousity.]

Merging doesn't automatically make a department stronger. They're not similar; they have similar aims but the method of achieving them is completely different.

Bigger doesn't necessarly mean better (sexual innuendo not intended ) and I think people underestimate the value of a single individual competition. In fact, some of the best competitions I've seen have been completely independant of a theme/arc/big event. Sticking a theme can limit creativity if you're not careful.

edit: oh and just cos matt doesn't write essays to defend himself doesn't make him a bad GM. Admittedly he's not the best GM I've been manager under but he'd be competing with nvrspk4 so that's not really fair :p

[FlyingJesus]

both departments are doing well

Controversially, I agree with a merge. Competitions & Events could work well as one department in my opinion as I do feel they're extremely similar. A similar argument was made back when Articles was running to merge Articles and News and I agreed with that too. I think merging makes a department stronger but understand this is a controversial move. I just feel it'd benefit members more as the scope of competitions could be bigger.. a competition could be stretched out to an event. It make things more exciting.

Quite so, as far as I can see the arguments against a merge seem to be almost entirely from comps staff who don't want to lose their easy way into the staff areas. I was articles staff when the merge/dissolution happened and it was a very similar situation - we had to spend very little time and effort pulling out some small amount of work while the news team did more and could still easily have handled our jobs, but several people in the team were dead against it because it meant they'd either not be staff any more or would have to actually do something. This wouldn't work quite the same as articles was dropped entirely in the end and I don't think anyone's going to suggest that we oughtn't have competitions, but the basic similarities are there and other consolidations have also worked well in the past - most notably bringing together the moderation department and community department into one team, which has worked fairly smoothly ever since

[Inseriousity.]

Not everything's about power. I have no interest in accessing staff forums on an online forum for cyber-power. I do it cos I like it, I resigned from events because I didn't really like it so I think it's fairly natural I'm against it.

Mathew's not comps staff and he disagrees with it too btw.

[Mrs.McCall]

I don't see why it can't happen. Staff don't have to lose their jobs, they can be offered positions in the new, larger department. It would create a stronger department I really believe that.