People Quitting Habbo After Mute?

[Grimmauld]

i think it is impossible to actually filter chat on a social game like habbo...thank God ive already quit, itll never be the same anymore anyways

[Fifty-Six]

Don't think enough people will leave for there to be a noticeable difference. However, I think it'll take a few weeks or so after we're unmuted before the Hotel population gets back up to speed.

[Showder]

I've quit aswell,about a month ago because it was boring and I can just see FieryCold this and FieryCold that. I just come on HxF ocassionally to see what is going on,like.today.

[CaptainAce$$]

I wouldn't quit not even with a strict chat.

[Mark]

I can't say I've quit but I come on significantly less. I bought minecraft and har been playing that now.

[Seikou]

i haven't quit (yet) but the mute has made me stop going on, up until yesterday i hadn't logged on for about 5 days which is really weird for me hahaha. i suppose i'll start going on more again once it's over but if the safety chat is really bad then i don't know.

[tm]

I don't think Paul has understood the issue that has been raised. Channel 4 have reported that there is an abundance of paedophiles who engage in pornographic chat with young people - a new chat system does NOT address the issue. People will simply answer the five questions and continue like before. Habbo need to concentrate on the process of moderators getting involved to manually stop harmful chat. Educating people through having them "earn" the right (earn? for goodness sake, it's a game!) to speak is a flawed method... and I'm surprised they think it will do anything.

It would take a miracle to stop the issue completely, so therefore this is HABBO'S problem for not stamping down on the behaviour. Paul is making it seem like it's primarily the users' problem!

Nice to see someone hitting the nail on the head there!
If staff continue to ignore this behaviour on Habbo through the inaction they've displayed over the past few years then absolutely nothing will have changed. It's a change in how they deal with the problem that is the most important thing.

I'd focus on these aspects if I were them.
- 'Strip clubs' and rooms dedicated to sexual behaviour need to be immediately closed and users need to be told outright that this is unacceptable.
- Users soliciting MSN/Skype for sex need to be banned permanently and prevented from making alternate accounts so it cannot continue.
- Regular and new users need a complete change of attitude and need to immediately report sexual behaviour, this would be achieved through confidence in moderation (read on).
- Most importantly, user trust in moderators needs to be improved drastically. Users have not reported people because they have no confidence in the moderation on Habbo and assume no action will be taken. I've been in this situation myself. I've reported 5 users in a row attempted to solicit 'cam sex' and had no action taken against them. When another user comes in I've not reported them because I 'knew' nothing would happen. Moderators need to be visible and visibly taking action on the hotel, not just hidden in rooms or sending alert messages. Their avatars need to be seen otherwise users assume they are not there. That said, moderation also needs to improve on the whole too.

Don't get me wrong, there's more problems that should be addressed but dealing with these four points should go some way to improving the hotel overall.

More ontopic: I hope people DO leave if things don't improve. They might get the message then!

[PiippBB]

The filter won't be applied to accounts for long. Paul has said today once users have passed the quiz and spent a certain amount of time with the whitelist filter, they will come out of that and into the blacklist filter. I can't see why that would give people reason to quit. All they need to do is stick around for a while and then they'll effectively have everything back to how it was (but with better moderation).

[Paige.]

the mute is annoying and making habbo quite boring but i wouldn't quit because of it because it obviously won't stay like that forever and the mute will go and i don't think enough people will quit for it to be noticeable

[Chippiewill]

I don't think Paul has understood the issue that has been raised.

In case you hadn't realise, Sulake isn't actually trying to fix the problem, this is just a show.