Good day all!

I've just come here to announce all the things you need to know for this Christmas holiday!

If you didn't know we are currently in the process of a complete staff overhaul. This has been long due because of the inactivity of some of our Professors and Moderators which have led to a lot of extra work for my poor Breeness and other hard working staff members over the past months. Those that know I am talking about them ought to be thoroughly ashamed of themselves, and know that I am currently working on a system to make sure that this never happens again.

Thanks to that we will be opening up many staff positions to our Prefects on Friday December 17th (yes, this Friday). Prefects will have one week to apply, and the decisions will be sent out next Friday/Saturday. I shall go dig out the Prefects Bathroom for that!

We will open up the Prefect positions on Friday December 24th, and give students one week to apply for the positions. I'll post the main requirements at the end of this post if anyone wants to get a sneak preveiw. :happy:

On December 26th we will open up the remaining Professor positions to the site, though we will be looking very throughly into anyone that applies for a Professor position and there will be some strict regualtions. That will also be open for one week.

Around Jan 3rd/4th we will have a site closure to tidy up the forums. This will involve deleting threads, CDs, putting all our staff and prefects in their new usergroups, adding member titles for the quidditch teams and deleting inactive members. We will re-open on Jan 6th(ish) with a nice clean site for our new Mods!

These dates may change over the next few days, so please check back!

Now, as for Prefect status...

Who is ineligible for a prefect position?
Anyone who...
1) ...Has a warning point against them.
2) ...Is on the Moderator Queue (or Mod Watch).
3) ...Has been a member for less than 1 month.

Requirement 3) can be waved if you can prove previous moderation experience (such as an e-mail from the admin of another board praising you) on a suitable forum. A suitable forum is one that has standards equal to ours here at HPU. We also ask that if you are going to use this method the admin member who gives us a refernce must be 16 or over and able to give us details of your work there.

What do we look for in a potential prefect?

1) Maturity. We don't care what your age is (though you technically can't have an acocunt on HPU unless you're 13 or older), but we do care how you handle yourself both in and out of character. Knowing how to handle yourself in a mature manner (especially when under pressure) is a MUST for all prefects.

2) Responsibility. This probably should fall under #1, but I'm listing it specifically because it is a vital part of being a prefect/moderator on HPU. Prefects "patrol" and maintain the forums to which they are assigned. If just one prefect fails to do their job, they're essentially doubling the work of someone else, and that's not fair. "Prefect" isn't just a fancy title that you get to toss around. It's a volunteer job, plain and simple.

3) Attitude. Let's face it: No one likes someone who has a perpetual attitude problem. Likewise, no one will show respect to a push-over. As such, you have to have the right combination of assertiveness and friendliness.

4) Role-playing Skills. We expect our prefects to be good RPers. Why? It's easy. Prefects are role-models (like it or not) to new members. When a new member needs examples of what's acceptible, they should have to look no further than our friendly HPU prefects.

And with that I shall depart. Thankyou to Bree for the details on Prefect Requirements.

Good luck all and Yuletidings!

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Feef

I've started the Class Switching thread in the Staff Lounge again, so any Professors who want to change their class should pop down there and post.

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Feef

Ah, yes, back again for your entertainemnt. :bleh:

I've looked over what I have, and it will be likely that we will have at least one opening in every house, possibly two in Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw. Some of this depends on what happens in the next 12 hours, so check back tommorow morning for a full update.

I can definatly tell you we will have a place in Slytherin open, as well as Ravenclaw, and its more than likely we will have a space in Hufflepuff (I just have to run my Head Boy/Girl nominations past Breecheese, and check that Alyson is joining us in the ranks of the Professors).

I am now off to re-build the Prefects Bathroom (well, when I say build it I mean I am going to batter the House Elves untill they work faster) so I can open a topic there for any Prefect (or Head Student) who wants to move up. Please join me!

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Feef

This is a general notice to all prefects:

I am giving you all another 24 hours, then I am closing up the Prefects Bathroom and with it the Professor Application thread.

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Prof. Fe

Hey everyone!

I'm a little late with this thanks to my brother (who dragged the PC into his bedrom for 2 days and wouldn't let me have it back :angry:. Roll on the day I move out!!). Tis that time of year though when everything is a bit mad.

Anyway, I have posted the Prefect Application threads, and I'm just going to repeat the conditions for Prefect status on HPU:

• You must have been on site for over 1 month.
• You can not have warning points or be on Mod Watch.

Yes, there are so many of them... :bleh:

Of course there are the guidelines I put before, just look up a few posts for those. They will give a better idea of what then admin are looking for in candidates.

Anyway. There are 4 places open, 2 from Hufflepuff and 1 each from ravenclaw and Slytherin. I have to apologise to Gryffindor students, you will not get a chance for a few months yet as the Gryffindor Prefects are all active!

Hufflepuff Applications

Ravenclaw Applications

Slytherin Applications

I have also just opened Professor Applications. all the details are in this thread:

Professor Applications

I put that in the Prefects Bathroom too, as it makes it much simpler to find! ^_^

You all have a week, I shall close that topic on the 31st of December. Please make sure you post by then!

Good luck!

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Fe