Habbo caught up in child sex scandal / Habbo Mute

[Abdicators]

Yes your correct, parents should be moderating their kids at 13 to lets say 15-16, but the difference is. Their every move are you serious? I mean say if im sitting 7-8ft away from the computer watching tv for example watching over my child, i can't see the writing off someone saying hey have you got skype so we can cam. I can't see that, unfortuantly its not in the biggest size.

No your insulting my intelligence though, hardly polite but just get a wiff you may be inclined or work for Sulake from the points you make are so very silly.

At 15-16 teenagers are far more aware of sex than a 13 year old. They will know perfectly well the dangers of using chat services such as MSN; or at least they should. Their every move should not be monitored, that gives the impression of a lack of trust. But you should be checking up on your childs online activities when they're at a young age. I've been following live tweets, some parents are flipping out, whilst others are commenting that parents are not putting enough of their own moderation onto the child. Everyone is aware of the dangers of all online chats, this doesn't just stop at Habbo.

My views are representativeness of me, they have no affiliation with Sulake.

A very good tweet on this issue:

@Xepsjonell@Channel4News Responsibility for kids online lies with the parents. Habbo is a hangout for creative teens, not children. #c4news@PaulLaFo

[MKR&*42]

What I disliked about one of the example situations they used was when they accepted that RANDOMER'S friend request (someone who they hadn't even spoke to at all) and then just let him talk sexual to them on PM? I'm sorry, but if you start complaining after a few lines of him being sexual to you then maybe you should have

a) declined his friend request because you hadn't spoke a word to him.
b) Reported him the moment he started being sexual.

It's like, let's say a woman is about to get raped (irl). She doesn't wait until after the man has "finished" / is "halfway through" to scream for help (if she can) does she? She does it straight away. It's not ******* hard to delete someone/report them/not accept their request if you're afraid they'll do something sexual to you.

As for moderation, Sulake could expand and probably need to (if they have the money lol.) and even Paul LaFo said a month ago on twitter that attention via moderation is the lowest per. player on .com. But even then, trying to moderate all rooms (without someone reporting) + all Private Messages is near impossible.

[Velma.]

Habbo wasn't always like that though:
When I first began playing, around 2007 --
nothing was sexual it was all about trading furniture
and getting the latest effects but now Habbo is all about money
and if you haven't noticed, in the media (movies, music..tv shows ) it's all about
sex, xes, lol<

so yeah..

[DPS]

Emma Monks

I would be interested to know whether the researchers asked Sulake what happened to those people they were talking to on Habbo. The reason I ask that is because I know for an absolute FACT that many of the examples of speech given would have raised priority tickets for moderation staff which would have resulted in those players getting banned and, in some cases, reported to CEOP (in the case of the UK.) the fact that some speech is not filtered out does not mean that action wasn't taken. I would also add that Jim Gamble's statements about human moderators simply DON'T scale up - you would need an army to eyeball 70 million chat lines a day; only advanced profiling technology can do that.

Ex Staff ^^ comment on fb. well i think shes Ex Staff dont think she works for sulake anymore.

[GoldenMerc]

Emma Monks

I would be interested to know whether the researchers asked Sulake what happened to those people they were talking to on Habbo. The reason I ask that is because I know for an absolute FACT that many of the examples of speech given would have raised priority tickets for moderation staff which would have resulted in those players getting banned and, in some cases, reported to CEOP (in the case of the UK.) the fact that some speech is not filtered out does not mean that action wasn't taken. I would also add that Jim Gamble's statements about human moderators simply DON'T scale up - you would need an army to eyeball 70 million chat lines a day; only advanced profiling technology can do that.

Ex Staff ^^ comment on fb. well i think shes Ex Staff dont think she works for sulake anymore.

Shes left, but i guess she backed up Sulake, would have thought Becs would have too

[DPS]

for the non uk people that cant see the news.

this should work,

http://link.brightcove.com/services/...=1686028204001

[xxMATTGxx]

You can watch the Channel 4 News report again by going to:

http://link.brightcove.com/services/...=1686028204001

(Blame Channel 4 for the long link)

[Mathew]

ts really doing is promoting habbo and giving pedos a place to go :/

Quite right. Bringing the issue straight out into the open simply makes everything a lot worse (I studied it in Sociology - deviancy amplification spiral). If they had considered the effects of this, then they would have been better emailing Habbo directly and only publishing results as a last resort.

@Roxy; your room is on tv LOL

Hahaha, I looked in the [DATE] category earlier and saw Roxy's room, so wondered if it would be featured. Brilliant.

[Abdicators]

Emma Monks

I would be interested to know whether the researchers asked Sulake what happened to those people they were talking to on Habbo. The reason I ask that is because I know for an absolute FACT that many of the examples of speech given would have raised priority tickets for moderation staff which would have resulted in those players getting banned and, in some cases, reported to CEOP (in the case of the UK.) the fact that some speech is not filtered out does not mean that action wasn't taken. I would also add that Jim Gamble's statements about human moderators simply DON'T scale up - you would need an army to eyeball 70 million chat lines a day; only advanced profiling technology can do that.

Ex Staff ^^ comment on fb. well i think shes Ex Staff dont think she works for sulake anymore.

She is ex-staff yes. But she's absolutely right.

[sex]

Hope the get rid of the out sourced **** mods tbh