Habbo caught up in child sex scandal / Habbo Mute

[geo]

Do you think you could copy and paste what Paul said (STILL BLOCKED!! :@)

Um... I guess it's okay that's it going to be limited, still better than nothing. :/

[Jarkie]

Do you think you could copy and paste what Paul said (STILL BLOCKED!! :@)


LMAO: Habbos, the Scandinavians now have their chat back. Next is .com which is planned for the weekend if all goes well. Thanks.‪#Habbo‬ (https://twitter.com/search/%23Habbo)

[Aaron]

I don't really mind the fact that the chat is going to be a little limited to begin with,
I think that's quite a good move,

Thanks for the link :)

Yeah, at-least they're working in steps to get us back connecting. It's better than nothing! :P


LMAO: Habbos, the Scandinavians now have their chat back. Next is .com which is planned for the weekend if all goes well. Thanks.‪#Habbo‬ (https://twitter.com/search/%23Habbo)

You beat me to it lol! :P

[:odey:]

Do you think you could copy and paste what Paul said (STILL BLOCKED!! :@)

Um... I guess it's okay that's it going to be limited, still better than nothing. :/


LMAO: Habbos, the Scandinavians now have their chat back. Next is .com which is planned for the weekend if all goes well. Thanks.‪#Habbo‬ (https://twitter.com/search/%23Habbo)

Beat me to it :(

But here's the image,

http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/1762/croppercapture3k.png

And this was Aaron;'s,

http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/2374/croppercapture4g.png

[Jarkie]

im just too fast ;)

And me and @tm (http://www.habboxforum.com/member.php?u=9624); have pledged that if he unmutes us on the weekend i will dress up like a girl and he will wear no hat

[Mathew]

http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/2374/croppercapture4g.png
See this is what I don't like. We're not all paedophiles and we're not all children, so it is beyond me why he is pinning the blame on the community - it is NOT our fault. I find him extremely condescending lately and it's not the way to go about running a company. It's a problem with the industry and the management - not the users.

[:odey:]

im just too fast ;)

And me and @tm (http://www.habboxforum.com/member.php?u=9624); have pledged that if he unmutes us on the weekend i will dress up like a girl and he will wear no hat

That's proof that you're not very believing in this then.. haha :)


See this is what I don't like. We're not all paedophiles and we're not all children, so it is beyond me why he is pinning the blame on the community - it is NOT our fault. I find him extremely condescending lately and it's not the way to go about running a company. It's a problem with the industry and the management - not the users.

I do agree with this,
I don't feel like it should have been everyone who should have been blamed,
But I guess it would have taken a LOT longer to find out who the troublemakers were,
As for the whole situation, it's been handled horribly, and gone on for far too long.

[geo]

Thanks @Ezio (http://www.habboxforum.com/member.php?u=18695); & :odey:; :)

I don't get it tbh. Surely we've proved enough of a 'point' as there's been plenty of members staying online even though we're limited to what we can do. :rolleyes: Paul seems like a **** that works his way around problems foolishly.

[Paige.]

finally they've given us an idea as to when the chat will be back up. don't think it should have been down for so long :(

[:odey:]

finally they've given us an idea as to when the chat will be back up. don't think it should have been down for so long :(

I don't think there was any need for it to be down for so long, when we've not really had any visual adjustments, they've just been planning what to do which is stupid :(

Looking forward to my 31 days of free VIP though, and I'm hoping for some nice furni releases to compensate...

[Paige.]

I don't think there was any need for it to be down for so long, when we've not really had any visual adjustments, they've just been planning what to do which is stupid :(

Looking forward to my 31 days of free VIP though, and I'm hoping for some nice furni releases to compensate...

i'm glad they've compensated VIP tbh and yeah it would be nice if they released some new furni! :P

[Zak]

just cant wait to open my maze again now lol

did interters in like no time, nothing special

[MKR&*42]

Ok, this weekend cool. Even though the game will bore me to death whilst everyone has limited chat.

[Jarkie]

Ok, this weekend cool. Even though the game will bore me to death whilst everyone has limited chat.

Aye indeed, will take some time to get used to the clubpenguin styled chat

[wixard]

just cant wait to open my maze again now lol

did interters in like no time, nothing special

make your ******* first room easier

[Jarkie]

make your ******* first room easier

haha omg I agree, have you been to the other rooms.. OMG

[Zak]

i have done, look in cool rooms sub-forum :P

[Kyle]

cba going through threaed WHEN IS UNMUTE? ARE WE GIVEN AN EXACT DATE YET?

[Mathew]

lol, I thought he said we'd be unmuted at the start of this week. he just keeps raising our hopes then pushing it back.

[Kodger]

I admire Paul if I'm honest. The twitter responses, great unmute responses that weren't suitable for posting, the Habbo groups and rooms and he and Sulake still remain stubborn and make us the last unmute Habbo. The pressure he's been under is immense.

[PiippBB]

lol, I thought he said we'd be unmuted at the start of this week. he just keeps raising our hopes then pushing it back.

He never said that at all. The first time he gave any kind of date was last week, in which he said if all goes well we'll be unmuted this week. Coming into this week he has officially said for this weekend, so long as everything goes well on the other sites. That's the first time he's given any kind of time frame for .com; he's been very careful not to give us any information prior just incase it is pushed back. He's obviously quite hopeful for this weekend or he wouldn't have said it.

[Mathew]

He never said that at all. The first time he gave any kind of date was last week, in which he said if all goes well we'll be unmuted this week. Coming into this week he has officially said for this weekend, so long as everything goes well on the other sites. That's the first time he's given any kind of time frame for .com; he's been very careful not to give us any information prior just incase it is pushed back. He's obviously quite hopeful for this weekend or he wouldn't have said it.
"This week" gives the impression of Monday / Tuesday, when it will probably end up being Sunday evening at 11pm.. :P

[Jordan]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18687249


Disney's Club Penguin to invest in child safety online

Disney, the firm behind social network Club Penguin, is donating £3m worth of space on its outlets towards teaching children how to stay safe online.

The TV, print and website slots will promote third-party campaigns.

The announcement was made at the Children's Media conference by Club Penguin founder Lane Merrifield.

Keeping children safe online has been under the spotlight since revelations that another network - Habbo Hotel - had been used by paedophiles.

Parental involvement
Mr Merrifield, who would not comment on the problems at Habbo, said the investment was unrelated.

"Safety is important to us. Even though we don't have the ability to make the entire internet safe, we do have the ability to educate and empower kids to keep themselves safe," he said.

"It starts with making sure that the parents are involved, making sure kids understand not to share personal information and to tell someone if they experience something inappropriate."

Disney plans to link up with child safety experts including Ceop (Child exploitation and online protection) and charities such as Childnet.

The advertising "fund" can be spent on space across Disney's television channels, magazines and child-focused sites in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Club Penguin currently uses filters to prevent inappropriate conversations. The filters limit what can be said on the site.

It also employs over 200 moderators.

"We don't control who comes on the site but we have a lot of control over what they experience once there," said Mr Merrifield.

He said that it was "dangerous" to rely purely on technology.

"Language is organic and we use human moderators to stay ahead of new trends," he said.

Convenient timing!?

[Jarkie]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18687249



Convenient timing!?


lol they are getting worried that c4 might attack them so now they seem to be upgrading everything :P

[GommeInc]

If only the CEO of a certain business with which we are all familiar would take the time to actually teach children of online safety. A good move by Disney, utilising their TV channels to educate children on the matter. It's very nobel of them. Whether or not the timing is a coincidence, they are at least doing something to educate users which they do not really need to do. Habbo on the other hand are doing half-arsed alterations which will probably go down like a lead balloon once chucked out globally.

[HotelUser]

Ridiculous. If children are caught up in exploiting the sexual capabilities of Habbo then I say it's their parent's fault for not restricting their children's access to the game itself. Habbo is perfectly legal and is a lot *less* sexual then a lot of other games like Gaia Online, IMVU and especially Second Life where literally 50% of the game is cyber sex.

[GommeInc]

Ridiculous. If children are caught up in exploiting the sexual capabilities of Habbo then I say it's their parent's fault for not restricting their children's access to the game itself. Habbo is perfectly legal and is a lot *less* sexual then a lot of other games like Gaia Online, IMVU and especially Second Life where literally 50% of the game is cyber sex.
Technically they're operating border-line illegal - they have to follow guidelines both in the EU (their main base of operations) and in their respective countries. Although the users should have more self control, Habbo really should be understanding what is going on inside its own game. Promoting sexual content for 13+ year olds is a recipe for disaster. If they were 16/18+ then go crazy, but this game is strictly for underaged users.

Also, I say border-line because it's difficult to enforce these sorts of disputes as there is no actual law on the matter. If anything it would be closures or heavy fines. More a civil dispute than criminal.

[Tidings]

https://twitter.com/PaulLaFo/status/220877037861216256

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[Jarkie]

https://twitter.com/PaulLaFo/status/220877037861216256

Habbos, the English lang site will have limited communication restored tomorrow afternoon. Enjoy the weekend connecting with friends. ‪#Habbo‬ (https://twitter.com/search/%23Habbo)

AT LAST

:)

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[GommeInc]

Is that the private messaging system he's wittering on about?

[SackRace]

AW YEAH BABY

[Inseriousity.]

Wouldn't call limited conversation an unmute but okay, one step at a time. Shame this step took weeks though :P

[TonyBest]

About time we get unmuted. Swear it felt more like 3 months than 3 weeks.

[Tidings]

About time we get unmuted. Swear it felt more like 3 months than 3 weeks.

its been like 5 weeks?

[SackRace]

its been like 5 weeks?

no it hasnt bud

[iBlueBox]

is it the limited one where we can only say approved words?

[:odey:]

Not getting my hopes up yet, need to find out what 'limited' means in his world first.

[Catchy]

Yayyyyy finally! 'Limited communication' sort of puts me off though, the question is will you actually be able to communicate efficiently enough? The French hotel was awful, couldn't hardly type anything EVEN IN FRENCH.

[SackRace]

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Good to hear that when we're all 'umuted' Habbo will start to connect with fansites more

[SackRace]

Already been posted buddy

[Shorty]

Already been posted buddy

This was posted before the other thread.

[Jurv]

woooo! about time too :dance:

[SackRace]

woooo! about time too :dance:

'limited' so we can only say certain things I think, but the good thing is:

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[Jurv]

'limited' so we can only say certain things I think, but the good thing is:

http://i45.tinypic.com/1gjhgy.jpg

i'm not bothered. i'd rather have limited communication than what it's like now, it's awful

[Alba]

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Good to hear that when we're all 'umuted' Habbo will start to connect with fansites more
Why did you blacken out your Twitter username, when you have it on your Habbox profile? :P

[GOLD-VICAR]

Thank you for the update Tidings!

[SackRace]

i'm not bothered. i'd rather have limited communication than what it's like now, it's awful

http://i46.tinypic.com/8zfsee.jpg

[Jarkie]

Why did you blacken out your Twitter username, when you have it on your Habbox profile? :P

hahaha pwned!

And lol hes asking people to DM him for this habbo potrol thing...

[SackRace]

Why did you blacken out your Twitter username, when you have it on your Habbox profile? :P

didn't know if you were aloud it or not

[tm]

He said the guardian thing and the 'unlimited' chat will not be coming for 'weeks'.


We are going to launch Guardian in short weeks then more chat comes for you.
https://twitter.com/PaulLaFo/status/220882879255822338

[Jarkie]

Maybe a mod can merge the threads?

[DPS]

Wow nice do it when im going away for the weekend ;/

[GoldenMerc]

Shame can't DM him as he decided to unfollow me

[santa-my-nana]

https://twitter.com/PaulLaFo/status/220877037861216256

Habbos, the English lang site will have limited communication restored tomorrow afternoon. Enjoy the weekend connecting with friends. ‪#Habbo‬ (https://twitter.com/search/%23Habbo)

AT LAST

:)

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I knew they didn't work on weekends :)

[Catchy]

Wow nice do it when im going away for the weekend ;/

it'll still be here when you get back d/w

[Jarkie]

I knew they didn't work on weekends :)

Hahaa sulake will work on weekends when pigs can fly

[Samantha]

its been like 5 weeks?

We were muted on 12th June so almost a month really :P

[geo]

f i n a l l y

[SackRace]

f i n a l l y

its limited so we cant talk everything ffs lol

[geo]

better than nothing though :P

[Logandyer45]

GoldenMerc I might be one of those Ross. :) I DM'ed him.

[GoldenMerc]

@GoldenMerc (http://www.habboxforum.com/member.php?u=26925) I might be one of those Ross. :) I DM'ed him.

Good luck :)

[Ekelektra]

Guys it's unmuted!! How exciting!

[compositeLegend]

Looks like the limited chat is reactivated. I think it's not too bad. I saw that some words were highlighted in red and underlined, which meant that they were blocked, but when I went to enter it, it still appeared. :S

http://i49.tinypic.com/igc0hl.jpg

Sample of the Safety Booklet that appears before the Safety Quiz:
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Safety Quiz Questions:
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Safety Quiz Success:
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Safety Quiz Badge:
http://i45.tinypic.com/scc8ba.jpg

This must be the panic button everyone was talking about:
http://i48.tinypic.com/15xsa3b.jpg

Wired seems to be up and running, with the certain words padlocked:
http://i47.tinypic.com/2hye0qo.jpg
Stickies not working:
http://i45.tinypic.com/30mv9sm.jpg
On another note, I got a random message from the moderator despite not placing any calls for help:
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Welcome Lounge shot:
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[Matt]

It is actually so bad. I'm not even kidding. I hate it. I think i'll leave habbo. It's pathetic. It's not letting us speak our own language. Half the words are blocked. :@

[Ekelektra]

There are some words that are simple that I would think should be there? Well they should be making a poll for us to put in words that should be safe.

And yeah some words I write come up red but not padlocked but then I write them again, they come up red, and they come up padlocked. Or maybe I'm seeing things...

[Matt]

Yeah, it's as if habbo havn't really thought about it. I suppose it's only been unmuted for what, 10 mins maximum but considering its been released in other hotels, why are there so many words like "helpdesk" that we can't say. How is helpdesk a bad word???!!. Beyond me.

[compositeLegend]

I guess words will slowly be released, as this limited chat thing progresses. I read that in the Finland hotel they opened up a poll in one of the public rooms for users to suggest words.

[Fifty-Six]

Finally we're able to chat again. Glad it's back.

[Matt]

Well half of the english dictionary is blocked so there is going to be a lot of words people want unbanned. Personally i think this is kind of stupid. They've taken it to the extreme D:

[Fifty-Six]

Finally!! So glad that it's back.

[Ekelektra]

Yeah I expect they will give us poll to suggest safe words, but I popped into the picnic room where it is on other hotels and there is nothing in there yet.

[compositeLegend]

I tried playing with the wired. I had a code word set that would transport me to a piece of furniture. It worked initially, with the words appearing padlocked, but when I checked the wired again, the code word had appeared padlocked. :(

[Matt]

lmao, everyone can celebrate. I'd rather keep on using signs tbh.

[Smurfed-]

I can't even say the word and :(

[Nick]

About bloody time

[Matt]

Omg nick, its so stupid lol. It will annoy you, i guarantee.

[Mathew]

lol I'd rather be muted. Can't even say my own name.. :rolleyes:.

[Jarkie]

lol you can't even say 'update' LOL

heres a list of all words:

http://www.habbo.com/gamedata/safechat

[sex]

ok for some reason my habbo can't talk anymore lol
i think i was muted? wtf

[Nick]

This is the most stupidest thing that Habbo has done

[MKR&*42]

Lol been shown some print screens and told about some of the words that can't be said, bloody ridiculous. I don't care if this will only be for new members in the future, it is so limited and just insanity.

Especially real names. Goodness knows how many names there are in the world, gl adding them all in Sulake... unless you want every new player to refer to each other by their habbo name for ages which i (and many others) don't do :/

[Red]

OOOH I have just got home! Can't wait to get on but something tells me I am going to be dissapointed!
The chat looks so weird! I HATE IT! Has it changed? Or has it just been so long since I seen it?

[sex]

ok i've been muted lmao...... there was no reason at all to why. I cant even say anything worth a mute?

[Red]

How long must we endure this? IT IS AWFUL.

[geo]

Might as well just ******* mute us again.

[ColyTom]

I'm happy that we can at least talk again. It is rather limited but it is safer now which is good!

[JerseySafety]

Its good how we can talk, but we can't say basic stuff like but, bricks. Really ridiculous. New members should get this not members who have played for millions of years.

[JustinNewcastle]

It's hard for me to enjoy habbo without events. Anyone heard news on twitter or elsewhere about when they'll be back?

[PiippBB]

It's hard for me to enjoy habbo without events. Anyone heard news on twitter or elsewhere about when they'll be back?

Someone mentioned today that they should return and Paul said he does feel it is a good idea they return. This doesn't give any idea of time, but as the poster in question was explaining it was hard for people to get credits to spend in the catalogue given how difficult it is to trade without events, I would imagine Paul will have the process hurried through (so that people can get credits to spend in the catalogue, Paul may be thinking about safety but he still has to put profits first).

[Puma!]

It would be nice if they added like 50-60 words a day this week - would make talking a lot easier

[DeapMeaning]

Hey look at that... Its me...

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[myles]

Hey licky your v a g i n a. There you go darling. Sticks diick jn you. You’ve lost your virginity. Right NEXT

LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
i canty breathe someone help

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Hey look at that... Its me...

oh u were that dyke lesbian that was sitting in the circle with that paedophile on channel 4

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admit it deapmeaning u were diirtyboyy

[Shockwave.2CC]

Hey look at that... Its me...

Yes it is Amber, That seems so long ago