Guardian Hobba (modernized helper)

[Tom]

This will be good, but hard to get and will most likely be unfair on people who actually WANT to do it and know quite a lot. It'll most likely be already well known people. However, I could be wrong.

[GommeInc]

Paul LaFontaine ‏@PaulLaFo
@HabboDublyu You level up in Helpers to be a Guardian

oh dear..

It's basically a ranking system like the one found on this forum - the post ranking system. Over time it will become worthless, too many "gods" will appear and many would of got to that title without really earning it properly... Not that I am saying Habbox Gods on here are useless or undeserving, but given the context it makes sense

[PiippBB]

This will be good, but hard to get and will most likely be unfair on people who actually WANT to do it and know quite a lot. It'll most likely be already well known people. However, I could be wrong.

Judging by some of the bias on Paul's Twitter feed you could well be right. I give it two years, tops.

[Jarkie]

It's basically a ranking system like the one found on this forum - the post ranking system. Over time it will become worthless, too many "gods" will appear and many would of got to that title without really earning it properly... Not that I am saying Habbox Gods on here are useless or undeserving, but given the context it makes sense

Hahaa so true!

Judging by some of the bias on Paul's Twitter feed you could well be right. I give it two years, tops.

I wouldn't even give it a year. Sulake like to give up on their 'wonderful' ideas once it starts to fail.

[JlMMY]

A lot of worthy discussions going on here. One thing I was trying to figure out is which time frame were you all talking about regarding Hobbas? Back when Habbo.com became the new site for Habbo USA they had the applications open up for Hobbas. I do remember a lot of abuse then, but before there was even a habbo.com and it was only Hotelli Kultakala, Habbo UK, and Habbo Switzerland the Hobba moderation staff was very mature. I spent most of my time on .ch when it opened up and enjoyed the company and support from the staff there (Hobbas like amberrachel, KidCreme, and Dreamwalker). I remember running into Flumsi and Dreamwalked on .co.uk (when it was .com) using an account called Hobba-Contact. They had an intelligent team to look up to and when Ione was running things at Habbo.com the Hobbas were kept in line. The problems I remember were only scammers and scripters. I can't recall a pedophile problem, but then again I was younger then and I didn't even care about that webcamming stuff as it wasn't used too much outside of AIM and MSN.

The recent Hobbas did have many abusing their powers, but the moderators cracked down on them. I remember seeing the Hobba population drop-down rapidly. I held onto mine for a bit longer than my friends and then tried to pretend to give into a scam so I could bust someone (Scarlet) for selling their habbo account. That failed miserably even though I added whispers to the log saying, "I'm not actually going to buy this account just trying to get her caught in the act". Yea, won't be doing that again lol.

Edit:

@PixelWarning Pretty sure that's the law I was talking about, I knew we pulled the Hobba scheme from US before the hotel even launched but I couldn't remember why, I wasn't even allowed staff rights on my account however I had them on all other English speaking hotels. However when the hotel was shared before the local hotels (2001-04/05?) we did used to have US Hobbas, maybe it depends upon where the company is registered or based? As at that point there was no US office, the .com hotel was operated from London HQ. Maybe now the hotels have merged it wont be an issue with Guardians or is the site still based in the US?

Alright, I decided to read the other 7 pages I missed. I saw bob1 and the name "bob" from the original Habbo UK/USA appeared in my memory. I remember seeing the bob character, who I thought was a guy, but always dressed as a woman in HPD. Years later I learn Bobby is a multi-gender name and now I got it lol. HPD... that was the hangout back then for the good people and the not so well behaved people. It's cool to see names like bob reappear.

[JlMMY]

Sorry for double post.

Alright, I decided to read the other 7 pages I missed. I saw bob1 and the name "bob" from the original Habbo UK/USA appeared in my memory. I remember seeing the bob character, who I thought was a guy, but always dressed as a woman in HPD. Years later I learn Bobby and Bobbie is a multi-gender name and now I got it lol. Gender doesn't really matter, but that was one thing that I could never figure out then. HPD... that was the hangout back then for the good people and the not so well behaved people. It's cool to see names like bob reappear. Bob, you wouldn't know me. I had created the account imJay on the English speaking Habbo hotel years ago. The only fame I received is when Jay came up to me in Cafe Ole and said, "Word Up! Imjay!". They put me on the front page, accidentally sent me two typewriters by mistake, and for the next two months they struggled to remove permanent clones hiding in my doorway of my room. Man I miss that version of Habbo. The scripters blew my mind! I haven't really checked back in for a year now. It's hard to keep up!

[e5]

Hobbs were the safest thing that happened to Habb, so I hope they come back.

[Jarkie]

apparently with the 'talent tree stuff' if you get banned or warning there is a high chance that a moderator can 'reset' your 'talent tree' level.. so making you do it all over again. this is going to suck 'cos the amount of unfair bans and warnings people get.

[santa-my-nana]

apparently with the 'talent tree stuff' if you get banned or warning there is a high chance that a moderator can 'reset' your 'talent tree' level.. so making you do it all over again. this is going to suck 'cos the amount of unfair bans and warnings people get.

Oh yes but hopefully with this there will be better moderation which will lower the bans and warnings, I'm sure they have said they will be unbanning some people for false bannings somewhere. Also you can appeal bans.

[Ardith93]

Bad news...