Here's some feedback...

[Mr.OSH]

It's only a 2 second job to changing someone from the banned usergroup to the member/VIP member group, it does make me wonder where all these workers disappear to, loads of other forums have their staff eager and ready to work, because of the passion they have in their job. Toot sweet!

It isn't as simple as just unbanning someone who has been banned. In the majority of cases someone is banned for what appears to be a "good" reason or has some reasoning behind it and things have to be discussed and checked over until a decision has been come to regarding if or if not the member in question should be unbanned. The staff at Habbox certainly do work hard otherwise they would not be working here - trust me, there are high expectations of the work produced by staff and there is no slacking off allowed.

It is easy to presume from a member position that it is really easy to deal with the forum and it is pure laziness that means things sometimes are not done instantly however this is far from the reality - there is a lot of work that goes into maintaining the forum and one of the reasons Habbox is successful is because there is real structure to how things are dealt with and to the staff base in general. I'm sure this ban is being looked into currently however you have to remember that staff have more than bans to be looking into and before you say "hire more staff to deal with bans then" that isn't necessary as to make things efficient having a smaller team of efficient staff who deal with multiple things is better than having a large team of inefficient staff. I just think some patience is needed for now as this is being looked into.

As for the complaint about testing taking too long it does take time to see how things work when threads are posted and if people are finding the use of prefixes useful in certain forums and as Elkaa says we are looking into changing formatting of prefixes to make them more usefull and practical and also we are considering using prefixes in other forums at the moment such as the International News and Rumours forum where I feel it would work well personally.

[jesus]

its all crap

why not just have a normal forum with normal sub-forums like everyone else instead of keeping changing things?

[GommeInc]

That's how this forum works? No wonder there are so many issues. Unbanning someone is that easy, making yourselves look dead from the neck up doesn't do you any favours... Just unban him, it's so obvious that he doesn't deserve it, and it doesn't need discussing and I don't even think it takes more than a day to discuss bans anyway, unless you've got soo many jobs to do, which are also probably pointless. Running a forum is meant to flow pass, not get tangled up with policies and other nuisances.

Having everything discussed is time consuming and pointless, when a human can easily click a few things to change something on a forum.

Also, this "member position" crap is... well... crap. I've run a forum, anyone can run a forum, I don't see why people like you subtly suggest it's a profession by even mentioning the phrase "from a member's position." Especially when you're dealing with people the same age and you're not running a forum for a company. The appropriate poise for a forum like this, with it's target audience, is meant to be relaxed, and not strongly professional suggestive, as in, you know what to do, but you don't have to make yourselves seem like it's only something you know how to do. I reflect back to Habbox Forum in 2004. JackHb and Seacat didn't make it seem like a special profession, and nor did they make themselves seem like hardcore professionals. They acted their age :/

And back to the prefixes thing, as Jesus said above, why change something members didn't want changed? You've taken something that wasn't broken, and thrown it on the floor and broken it

It isn't as simple as just unbanning someone who has been banned. In the majority of cases someone is banned for what appears to be a "good" reason or has some reasoning behind it and things have to be discussed and checked over until a decision has been come to regarding if or if not the member in question should be unbanned. The staff at Habbox certainly do work hard otherwise they would not be working here - trust me, there are high expectations of the work produced by staff and there is no slacking off allowed.

It is easy to presume from a member position that it is really easy to deal with the forum and it is pure laziness that means things sometimes are not done instantly however this is far from the reality - there is a lot of work that goes into maintaining the forum and one of the reasons Habbox is successful is because there is real structure to how things are dealt with and to the staff base in general. I'm sure this ban is being looked into currently however you have to remember that staff have more than bans to be looking into and before you say "hire more staff to deal with bans then" that isn't necessary as to make things efficient having a smaller team of efficient staff who deal with multiple things is better than having a large team of inefficient staff. I just think some patience is needed for now as this is being looked into.

As for the complaint about testing taking too long it does take time to see how things work when threads are posted and if people are finding the use of prefixes useful in certain forums and as Elkaa says we are looking into changing formatting of prefixes to make them more usefull and practical and also we are considering using prefixes in other forums at the moment such as the International News and Rumours forum where I feel it would work well personally.

[JackBuddy]

GommeInc for president!