Habbo caught up in child sex scandal / Habbo Mute

[Bob1]

No way did you really write that? I searched Habbo on Tumblr last night and came across this, it was a really good read! You should write for HX News or something . I loveee the last line so much ~!!

Thanks! Yeah I wrote it, logged on to find out what all the fuss was about and was muted so took my frustration out on tumblr lol. Figured I'd post it here, Habbox news site was the only fansite I remembered, I'm interested in what other people think, I might be a little bias...

[Kardan]

Apparently muted because of a few users so why don't they ban or mute them,.they must know who they are.otherwise they can't be certain its a few. It's inefficient and the new habbo helpers scheme does nothing,what's there to achieve apart from badges and abuse of it.

These people that are purposefully looking for children have throw away accounts. They're not regular players of Habbo that have rooms or masses of furniture. Once their account gets banned, they'll just create another one. The cycle will just continue. They somehow need to come up with a better solution of just banning these accounts, as it's obviously not working.

[Mathew]

He's mucking out the horses stable by shovelling the manure in his own front door.

Gotta hand it to you, that's a damn good metaphor.

Despite the “very sexual, perverse, violent, pornographic” conversations uncovered, some users attacked Channel 4 News. Oliver King, its programme editor, was bombarded with abusive messages on Twitter from irate Habbos after conversations were shut down on the network.



“Being trolled by idiots for retweeting about a brilliant C4 News investigation I didn’t write/report about how Habbo site is unsafe for kids,” he wrote.

I'm not a fan of this guy's attitude.

I haven't received any invites since I've been online so I'm guessing they've blocked those from coming through too!

[Astronomist]

I dont understand why they cant just mute people that havent been a member of the community for over a year... the ones that do the secksual *REMOVED* are usually on accounts under 1 year old.

Off topic: Kardan aren't you the guy that did that LovePanda thing?

Edited by Martin (Forum Super Moderator): Please do not avoid the filter!

[Xedia]

It's sad that a big news report has to draw attention to the discusting behaviour of a few members of Habbo, for Sulake to take "action" against them. They should have had this sorted long ago, but they were too busy releasing vibrating furniture.

[Hiro]

In the news report it states that children as young as 8 are playing Habbo, then this is a parental issue.

"1.4 You must be 13 years or older to use the Website. By registering for the Website, you represent and warrant that you are 13 or older and that you understand, agree to and comply with these Specific Terms."

Sure the moderation could be better, but it clearly states you have to be 13 or older, probably why they changed the story from an 11 year old to a 13 year old.

[xxMATTGxx]

Computer game chain GAME have now withdrawn #habbohotel cards from sale following our investigation
They join Tesco & WHSmith
#c4news

http://twitter.com/ paraicobrien/status/212862504743874560

[scottish]

Stop putting a ******* space after twitter.com :\

[David]

whats the latest news on the mute
cba reading the thread

[xxMATTGxx]

Stop putting a ******* space after twitter.com :\

im on my phone and cba correcting mistakes.