Chatting enable in .FI - It works like this.

[Camcorder]

Er.... Paul LaFontaine is quite dumb if he doesn't realize this sort of moderation will not work. People will always find alternative ways to express themselves and say what they want. Especially since we're such a "creative" community - something Paul mentions all the time but clearly has minimal understanding of. It doesn't even take much creativity to figure out a way to express yourself with what's available, that's what everyone does with language anyway and what people have done to avoid the filter.

[Flamedragon3]

This is honestly not going to work. Making a 'whitelist' is just ridiculous. It'll be easy for them to put most of the English dictionary into it. But then they will need to whitelist a lot of names for people, which could lead to a lot of people with uncommon names giving them requests to whitelist. Not to mention a lot of other words that people might want to use from character names, I mean theres 649 Pokemon names they better deffinitely add to this 'whitelist' :L

[Camcorder]

Also, I hope they don't censor my Habbo name, because that would just be ridiculous.

[lTraditional]

I bet the moderators are loving it, BEING PAYED FOR DOING NOTHING! Then again, isn't that all they actually do?! They want .com to be the most moderated hotel as that is "what caused the problems" according to Sulake. If you think the .FI hotel is bad then who knows what .com will be like!

[MKR&*42]

Additional info.

Habbo.fi have placed an FAQ filled with all the approved words: https://help.habbo.fi/entries/21622036-sanalista. They say the list will be updated on a daily basis. And "

Goods and room names appear in a list in the near future, ie they do not need to propose!" < Google translate lol.

Here is the chat partially open. You can train your animals anyway and you can get some "normal" words to say .. but not before you have completed the Safety Quiz.

So ye, we definitely have to complete the safety quiz to speak .

[dudee]

Hi, I've been following this forum lately, I play in Finland's habbo more than in usa. I must say I am surprised people here actually think moderators would be able to actually filter through millions of lines of chats habbo must have going on constantly. i dont agree with the whitelist/blacklist either, but how can you stop predators if the person being hunted doesnt want to press report or leave the situation?

There's some levelheaded people here who realize we're actually discussing about things bigger than habbo here - we must defend our hobbies and games instead of yelling at habbo for muting us. Everyone knows no site is safe in this industry, and if we let news companies blow these things out of proportion instead of educating the teens and their parents we will soon have no freedom in internet. Believe me once this is over it wont take long before hysterical press starts targetting the next favorite places. What worries me most is that while we're happy we dont see how everything is taken from us since we let them! (

[,Abbey]

Talking now works the following.

First you have to take a Safety Quiz, which is like the Habbo Way quiz.
If you have it correct, you can talk again.
You can only say words that are white listed. Other words turn into locks and are censored.
In the Picnick Area you can suggest words for the whitelist.

Shame, I'm not on Habbo.fi :L

[Jorc]

I don't know how I feel about this. I definitely agree they should have filtered out the bad words rather than filter in the good ones. Maybe they will switch it up eventually. There was something mentioned about eventually having more freedom. Hopefully its a long process to get to that freedom, so people don't just go and make a quick account to do the same "bad" thing over again.

[Odette]

This is dreadful imo... I just hope when you pass the safety quiz etc you really do unlock free speech, and not a limited version of "free" speech.

I just think moderation should have been vastly improved. Habbo should be clamping down heavily on users that participate in inappropriate behaviour, yes that may result in more unfair bans, but that's unfortunate. Harsher punishments (Perm & IP bans) for date/cyber room owners should also be implemented along with the rooms deleted. Habbo should be aiming to build up a reputation as a site that does not show any form of leniency on inappropriate talk/actions - it would take time, but I think that would have been way more effective. Of course it would cost sulake money to hire a strong team of moderation, but that's a consequence they must face as a result of their past leniency and low-quality moderation.

[Caziono]

This is dreadful imo... I just hope when you pass the safety quiz etc you really do unlock free speech, and not a limited version of "free" speech.

I just think moderation should have been vastly improved. Habbo should be clamping down heavily on users that participate in inappropriate behaviour, yes that may result in more unfair bans, but that's unfortunate. Harsher punishments (Perm & IP bans) for date/cyber room owners should also be implemented along with the rooms deleted. Habbo should be aiming to build up a reputation as a site that does not show any form of leniency on inappropriate talk/actions - it would take time, but I think that would have been way more effective. Of course it would cost sulake money to hire a strong team of moderation, but that's a consequence they must face as a result of their past leniency and low-quality moderation.

If you haven't noticed, Paul has done measures to prevent hiring more moderators and investing on the ones they currently have.