Noone posts any more.

[wixard]

I was thinking saurav and Adam but Adam never really posted that much anyway

don't think jake would bother but mayb

[samsaBEAR]

when i look around the forum, i very rarely see new members posting. its usually all names that i recognise either from a long time ago like myself, and most of us have the same x amount of forums that we like to post in and stuff.
i think habbox needs to find a way to get more members to join, but having said that is habbo even as popular as it used to be? these days most kids have blackberrys and stuff, they dont really need habbo to chat to their buddies

[Lee]

I think its inevitable with what I would call a downfall of users playing Habbo.

[RyRy]

Why would we shift away from Habbo when that is our only and current main come of any new members what so ever? Habbo hasn't closed down yet and if they improve the support for fansites like they are promising and asking us for our ideas then there is no point turning into another ClubHabbo where they are just a forum and aren't really a Habbo fansite no more.

A mass unban would have to be a case by case because some members still deserve to be banned from this forum. Well, we are on about people who aren't allowed to create accounts on the forum. You also sound like we have banned a lot of members for no valid reasons, no one has been banned for unfair reasons for quite some time now. You and the people who have been banned may not think that of course but that is their opinion which they are entitled to have.

mfw when a member of management admits members are banned unfairly.

nah man really you get same old people on this forum, i dunno why people complain, sure it's nice to have some new members but its not the end of the world. reason people dont post so much anymore is that if you consider the age of some members right now, a lot of them are considering college/a-levels, like people did before, and people will soon after. forum aint gonna die, it just goes through phases innit.

[FlyingJesus]

the impression I got and still get is that the forum demographic is a lot older and less interested in Habbo, thats why I think maybe the usual argument of 'we cant allow swearing' and so on ought to be abolished. Or at the least, somehow the forum could be made to accomodate both older members and Habbo users.. somehow, perhaps make all non-Habbo forums come with a warning that they allow curse words and so on.

The average age of active users is increasing not only because of that terrible phenomenon which makes Tara get even more wrinkly but also because for years now there has been bugger all by way of new users becoming properly active compared to how it used to be, and this is something that still for some reason doesn't get addressed. I'm not a fan of the idea of allowing swearing as it's simply not something that's necessary really, but something definitely does need to change in order to make the place more accessible to a range of new users, rather than the usual claim that the way forward is even more events on Habbo where the same clique of already active members attends and overruns the entire thing

What I don't understand is why staff have additional forums to post random crap in. I don't mean to be a buzz kill but i believe many years ago those forums where originally created and still are meant to be used mainly for staff to talk about upcoming events or ideas within that department. That doesn't happen, lets be honest, if it does it's rare. Them forums just form groups which cut people out who haven't got those staff permissions.

Absolutely agree, the idea of staff spam and staff chat forums does nothing to help and everything to hurt. Dissuading your staff to interact with users is not the greatest plan for a forum, yet here it appears to be common practice.

The answer in which got replied to question sometime ago was some bullcrap about staff needing to 'bond'. I'm pretty sure the staff forums have staff bonding anyway.The sad thing is the habbox staff only sections get more posts than some of the public forums nowadays which is absolutely crazy.

I seem to be always drifting back to some form of clique and i understand groups will always form but the thing is they have been formed by management without them even noticing (At least I hope so). That's just my opinion. I'm sure I grabbed the short straw in this argument but I don't really care if I have a problem with something I'm going to throw a childish strop about it, after all I am Richie.

It's not often that I agree with Richie but his post here yesterday actually makes sense (crikey) and requires acting on. How often in these such threads do staff attempt to blame a clique system in spam which hasn't even existed since 2008 while they not only allow but promote and take part in the segregation of staff and user activity? If staff are that highly strung and/or socially incompetant that they can't possibly bring themselves to post without having their own hidden section for it, I think there's something quite wrong with the selection process in terms of hiring people to work for a community.

[Barkseh]

I agree. There always used to be a bit of banter going on, back in the day. It seems dead now.

[beth]

apparently i'm the only one in management who believes staff spam should be closed (even if temporarily to increase posting in the main forums). i'm frankly so worn out with the reasoning i'm seeing for keeping them open that i concede defeat.

not hapz.

[FlyingJesus]

Apparently the aggressive nature of one spam regular is the definition of clique activity and cause for staff to not post anywhere other than their own spam section - not even just staying out of regular spam, but literally not posting outside the staff area at all.

I seriously worry about how some people remember to breathe.

[The Don]

Pops in quickly...HI!

The decrease in forum activity stems from management (not just the current management) being far too strict. Habbox got away with it in the past as Habbo was thriving and the rare values reeled in a large amount of new members. With Habbo in decline, as well as the lack of support for fansites whilst combined with the rare values being made obsolete, habbox was always going to suffer in terms of activity.

It is quite obvious that we have an ageing population here which means we need to bring in the next generation, which doesn’t seem to be happening, this is why management need to focus on maintaining the current user base otherwise gradually more and more members will leave as they get fed up with the rules, move on to university, or get a job. As other have said, last year the primary member age was 16-17, which is most likely going to be 17-18 now. It puts people off coming on here, a place they’re supposed to enjoy coming to, when they get hounded with warning pm’s, infractions and whatever else. Even Habbo saw sense and implemented an opt out filtering option; I can’t work out why Habbox didn’t follow in its footsteps.

I don’t really know what else to say… But something needs to be done soon, however the wiki does look promising...
Tl;dr?

Habbox needs to focus equally on maintaining its current user base whilst also trying to attract new members because at the moment, it seems rather one-sided in the sense that Habbox doesn’t seem to cater for its older members. Probably because general management are only focusing on bringing in the next generation (doesn’t seem to be working), whilst neglecting the older, dedicated members.

^&*~fades back into the mist

[FlyingJesus]

The decrease in forum activity stems from management (not just the current management) being far too strict.

Absolutely cannot bring myself to agree with this. For all its faults, the management of Habbox at the moment is not strict - realistically it's a damaging opposite. The level of moderation for us lay people is about right at the moment (I've had a couple of dodgy edits on supposed "pointless" posts which were actually straightforward responses to the thread, but nothing too sinister) but the way in which staff are treated is so lax that things do have a tendency to fall apart.

last year the primary member age was 16-17

*Primary age of the very small number of members who responded to the poll

It puts people off coming on here, a place they’re supposed to enjoy coming to, when they get hounded with warning pm’s, infractions and whatever else. Even Habbo saw sense and implemented an opt out filtering option; I can’t work out why Habbox didn’t follow in its footsteps.

I really don't understand this. You don't get "hounded" with warnings and infractions unless you're breaking the rules, never have done. I'm very outspoken and have strong views on things and people which I express often, yet here I am with no infractions and only a single zero-point warning from over a month ago, and it's not like I'm friends with management or anything so it's not that there's any favouritism going on.

at the moment, it seems rather one-sided in the sense that Habbox doesn’t seem to cater for its older members. Probably because general management are only focusing on bringing in the next generation (doesn’t seem to be working), whilst neglecting the older, dedicated members.

Other than not allowing swearing (OMG WHATEVER WILL WE DO FOR CONVERSATION?!) I can't see anything that's directly affecting the way in which older members post, and since we've never been allowed to it's not like we miss being able to do so. What bonuses would you like for older members? It's not a case of anyone being unwilling, it's simply that there is nothing that can be done for an age group who really doesn't want anything