Guardian System

[atpeak]

Whats the saying.. oh yeah "A magician never revels his secrets" - I think the same concept can apply here.

Unless you can trick them into revealing it

[GoldenMerc]

So hold on a sec, does that mean you can play that Habbo raceway or what ever?

[Shorty]

So hold on a sec, does that mean you can play that Habbo raceway or what ever?

They haven't uploaded the game content to make it work yet, only graphical art which shows on the 'gamecenter'

[GoldenMerc]

They haven't uploaded the game content to make it work yet, only graphical art which shows on the 'gamecenter'

So once they upload the game content you can play?

[Abdicators]

So once they upload the game content you can play?

Yes.

[Jarkie]

I reported Jarkie not expecting it to work, luckily there's no active Guardians to review the request. As you can see from the alert below, the system is clearly not ready.




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Alpha badge which was found awhile ago..



Translation: "The guardians are the Habbo Alphas but top-level"
Original: Los guardianes son los Habbo Alphas pero de nivel superior

Source:
https://twitter.com/Habbo_Diana/stat...62169443254272

If I get banned for this, I'm suing you

[GoldenMerc]

If I get banned for this, I'm suing you

"Your account is owned by Sulake unless stated otherwise" but ngl it'd be funny haha

[Jarkie]

"Your account is owned by Sulake unless stated otherwise" but ngl it'd be funny haha

It be on the news and everything i be well mega fam, till Paul sticks his claws in.

[Agesilaus]

Bully Report Tool.. so far.

That’s looking good, and so does the new Help Center menu.

Back to topic - new screenshots confirm my worries from previous posts, don't give this system very long without some changes to the application/vetting process we're assuming will happen. I don't understand why Habbo would choose not to have stricter criteria in place for these volunteers after the pressures/issues Facebook have faced

That’s because Sulake have this instinctive tendency to ignore the issues users and other people bring forward. It looks like if you want anything to get heard, you have to go to the media and have it exploited to the world.

Geez… What a painful way for a company to learn something.

Looking through the code in the client, and at all the images (not just the ones Shorty thinks are interesting!) i'm a bit confused as to how this is actually going to work.

At first I though the 'Guardian' role would give select Habbos the powers to kick, mute and room ban users in a fashion similar to that of Hobbas. In the sense that they would respond to a call, and chose an appropriate action based on the situation. After that, I thought the action that you had performed was going to be forwarded to other Guardians for review; to help ensure you was not abusing your position. At least, this is the idea I got from some of Sulakes developers.

After looking at the code and images though, it looks like to me as though an action is based on how 'bad' the bully is being ('Ok', 'Bad' or 'Very Bad'). The decision to how the bully is being seems to be collected from an average of several different Guardian votes, I then assume the server will take an automatic action based on that vote result.

This is exactly what I thought! Your last paragraph there defines how I am now seeing this as well.

The Habbo Guardian feature will not offer any kind of room controls; such as kick, ban, etc and will basically be a call-for-help picked up automatically in a certain topic and will be sent round to various on-duty helpers and they will have the option to vote it as a bad report (action needs taking) or no-use report (report isn't worth taking action too). Also, everyone will be able to use this feature but we are working on, if abused - how we will be taking it from the abusing users.

God, they really do change their mind a lot. Paul raves his lies on Twitter about having ‘kick powers’. Also a small chat with staff said that higher level helpers will get this ability. It seems like they are still thinking about what they should actually give them. It would be nice if they weren't so misleading about it.

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Most of the images myself and Shorty obtain, are done through enabling variables inside the client by modifying their list of 'external variables', you can find the link to the current public variables by viewing the source of the clients page. This is an example of how we managed to get the 'Habbo Way Badge' before any body else on Habbo, we were reported to the developers who admitted that it was their fault we had access to it, as the externals are so easily modified; that is fine.

Additional images are sometimes obtained by forcing the client to open XML windows of not yet implemented functions. This can be done a majority of ways, ranging from editing an existing XML window to add additional frames all the way down to modifying Habbos client at machine code level (AVM2), distributing these modified clients would be against the law and break Habbos ToS

None of this takes part on an emulated server. And even if it was, under the DMCA if we was able to justify the actions as educational to ourselves we would not be breaking any law. We are not using any third party tools to send any additional messages to the client, or to the server, and infact I work with Sulake to ensure this type of thing doesn't happen (which is why emulations are stuck way before any of the new stuff started to be added).

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Edited by Chris (Forum Moderator): Please do not be rude to other members!

THANK YOU FOR FINALLY ANSWERING THIS QUESTION! I can understand why you people were so hesitant to tell us in the first place, though.

[Shorty]

Pending Report now has a friendly interface.