The Great Habbo Raid. [RETURN!]
Heres a video for the old raids: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8HJqzrofcI
Here is where I got some of the info from: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...h=Pools+closed
The room raiders, otherwise known as the Nigraz, have returned, they go around public rooms, rioting and raiding them for ages.
In June 2006, people began circulating a picture that said they were planning to flood Habbo Hotel with many people to block the pool and much of the hotel. People sent around fliers on the image messageboard 4chan.
The great Habbo raid took place at July 12, 10PM Eastern Time. Although many people started, when it kicked off the rooms were flooded by thousands of people. The line to get into one of the pool rooms ranged from 100 to 500 at times.
The moderators, who it is unknown how much they knew of the planning behind the raid, went around banning people left and right often for nothing. Anyone in the same area of a Nigra was instantly banned. Mods even banned important admins of Habbo by accident! One moderator banned was Duncan, an administrator at Habbo.com and Habbodiscussion.com.
To evade the bans, people would either use a program like Habbit. Or, they would delete their shockwave logs in c:\windows\application data\macromedia\shockwave player\prefs\ . People who could not figure out how to do that, would uninstal and reinstall shockwave. Then, for either of the three methods, people had to change their IP addresses and make a new account on Habbo Hotel.
Most of the people in the raid came from 4chan (particularly those of its /b/ board). Others were from YTMND, Ebaumsworld, and a few scattered websites. 4chan also claimed Gaia Online was behind it when they supposedly were not--even stating in the raid that they were from Gaia--to keep it from being traced back to 4chan.
There was also a phrase called the "4chan Partyvan," which meant the FBI.
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During the raid nigras flooded every room, blocking doorways, and crowding the whole hotel. There were thousands of them and they hit all the Habbo Hotel sites based from different countries. Raiders grouped together to form swastikas (卐) sometimes as nigras and sometimes in white-skinned (often albino) avatars.
The pool rooms were in a subsection of the public rooms under the section Gaming Floor. At one of the two pool rooms, The Habbosphere Pool Deck, it had a large duck statue so Habbos with afros would stand behind it so it would look like the duck had an afro. They then called the duck Afroduck.
The raiders organized themselves using chatrooms outside of the website (such as IRC and teamspeak) and in private rooms in the website.
The raiders kept saying, "The [name of room (e.g. pool, library, etc.] is closed due to AIDS." They also said, "DESU!", a 4chan phrase. They said "Yiff," a term for sexual activity in the furry fandom. They also mentioned cracky-chan, a girl who posted pictures of herself in 4chan's /b/ board in 2005, who many of the members fell in love with. They raiders also phished people for passwords, using the line that if you give a website your username and password, it would generate free coins, when it merely give your username and password to someone to steal all your virtual coins and items. They scrolled either the song from the TV show The Fresh Prince of Bel Aire or a modified version.
During the raid, Habbodiscussion.com, the official forum, blocked reading to unregistered users and blocked anyone from registering for several days. It also had many people posting talking about the raid and complaining about the ban-happy nature of the moderators.
On Monday The 11th of the 9th should be when they propely return. The next raid. Will it come?
Edit by Adzeh (Forum Moderator) : Thread moved from "Habbo UK News and Rumours" to "Anything about Habbo". Please post in correct section.
