Forum going down hill?

[Hecktix]

In terms of what buttons said about posting to cause arguments I think the whole idea of an 'argument' needs to be discussed.

I try to leave arguments for as long as possible as most are healthy, but the thing is if you do this you turn to the reported posts forum and see that all the people in the argument have reported eachothers posts, and if you don't deal with it then you get PM's asking why etc. I agree that arguments are healthy but a lot of users may contradict their argument here by reporting every post made by the other member.

[StefanWolves]

Yawn, read that thread before, its your job to convince us not our job to disprove you. If you can't convince people it obviously can't be a clear cut genius idea!

As I said above, I don't know have the know-how to find proof, all you have to do is look at other forums to see that this forum is missing a trick.

Change in attitude of moderators can't really happen unless you get new moderators, attitude isn't the issue anyway its the implementation of certain rules.

I know what you mean, but if rules change, and senior members of staff tell (s)moderators what attitude they should use then attitudes could change.

Change in skins and a membership drive should suffice, maybe get rid of all that horrible red writing and have a slick looking mod edit box thing ala warez-bb, red writing seems very 2004 Oh and enable some of the cooler features, badges and eshop where you buy coloured names and features and stuff, just make it a bit more interesting!

I agree with all this, totally. I especially like the idea of the 'warez-bb style mod edit box', I hate the red writing, eye sore.

[The Professor]

I know what you mean, but if rules change, and senior members of staff tell (s)moderators what attitude they should use then attitudes could change.

Like I say, attitude isn't really the issue anyway. From what I've seen the current crop of moderators are fairly reserved and uncontroversial, its only really ye olde oli who seems to be more outspoken, and even then I wouldn't say he has a bad attitude. We don't even seem to have a lot of trigger happy mods like we used to so yeah its not a problem.

[Sharon]

he should stay banned, dont think ive seen an argument in a month... all his private joke with other users have stopped

He had his good and bad sides.
Hes an great member though ;]

Its cus jakes banned, its just no the same without him.

Ikr

On Topic:
Yeah its died down

[hah]

we need to close down clubhabbo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the users said they would come back to habbox if it closed lol

http://www.clubhabboforum.net/showth...=248763&page=2

[Chippiewill]

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I feel that lots of new users feel intimidated by the fact that lots of users are waaaay above them and that they wont be able to catch up.

The main problem in the decline is the growing gap between old users and new users. I feel that new users need to feel more welcomed and should not feel the negativity which I feel a lot of new users receive. So perhaps new users could be changed so they cannot be -repped until 200 posts and perhaps picking arguments or not encouraging new users should be disallowed. I know that in a lot of sections people can feel shunned by groups and in places like Graphics and Web design new users struggle to fit in and get laughed at when they post an alteration or a web layout because people direct the negative qualities at the user rather than improvements and encouragement to keep the users improving. I am not sure to much about the other sections but I feel that there are closed groups which prevent people feeling welcome in some sections. Perhaps there should be a 'Newbies' forum for new users which old users cannot see or post in and which only a few staff can see and post in? This way they can have a 'safe haven' which is an exclusive feature to them and they can feel like their own sub-community. And on the topic of features, perhaps there should be lesser forum features which they can access making them feel included in exclusivity but still keeping people encouraged to post but not get banned.

But thats's just my 2 cents .... and a quarter.

[hah]

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I feel that lots of new users feel intimidated by the fact that lots of users are waaaay above them and that they wont be able to catch up.

The main problem in the decline is the growing gap between old users and new users. I feel that new users need to feel more welcomed and should not feel the negativity which I feel a lot of new users receive. So perhaps new users could be changed so they cannot be -repped until 200 posts and perhaps picking arguments or not encouraging new users should be disallowed. I know that in a lot of sections people can feel shunned by groups and in places like Graphics and Web design new users struggle to fit in and get laughed at when they post an alteration or a web layout because people direct the negative qualities at the user rather than improvements and encouragement to keep the users improving. I am not sure to much about the other sections but I feel that there are closed groups which prevent people feeling welcome in some sections. Perhaps there should be a 'Newbies' forum for new users which old users cannot see or post in and which only a few staff can see and post in? This way they can have a 'safe haven' which is an exclusive feature to them and they can feel like their own sub-community. And on the topic of features, perhaps there should be lesser forum features which they can access making them feel included in exclusivity but still keeping people encouraged to post but not get banned.

But thats's just my 2 cents .... and a quarter.

i don't see how having a forum to themselves would help them integrate into the community, i agree with the rep idea to some extent, the levels for some of the ways to get points need to be lowered because they are way to high and it takes ages to get to another rep point... and lower the amount you need to rep before you can rep them again.

[StefanWolves]

Are we all in agreement that something needs to be done?

[Hazza]

Hmm, I've noticed this... I haven't actually used the forum properly like I used to for about 4 months, I just find it dead... I come on daily to check posts, but never post no more. Nothing interests me, something has gone but I dunno what is it!

[StefanWolves]

Its lost its mojo.