Breaking News: is this the end of fansites, goodbye Habbox?

[Kyle]

i say habbox comes a kazopark fansite again

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Where is your proof that fansites aren't using the money for personal use? Okay done? bye

I think you missed my point entirely dear. you are advocating donation to charity but not to habbox itself because you don't know where the money is going. take a look at what you're saying. proof of where the money ends up is not an issue so long as those that give it are content with their donation.

[Kardan]

i have already said why. there is the possibility that the site owner can make a profit (dont bother telling me this doesn't happen, that's not the point - it COULD happen). if a fansite wants to be official and enjoy whatever privileges that come with that it can not imo be seen to be making money for itself. evidently sulake agree.

by the way the idea that habbox or any habbo forum becoming a registered charity is complete nonsense. who would you be helping? you would need an income of over £5k a year to be registered anyway and thats not gonna happen.

Okeanos, you COULD be a paedophile. Don't tell me that you're not, because you COULD be. That's against the Habbo Way, so should Habbo just ban you just to make sure?

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Where is your proof that fansites aren't using the money for personal use? Okay done? bye

Why aren't you targeting users that are selling their gold bars for cash, and actually taking money from Sulake?

[Hidden]

Chaz already got reported and banned for his account systems, so they must be dealing with that slowly - I don't get why they haven't done that already it is really stupid and is losing them more income.

[sex]

why are you -repping everyon who disagreeing with you @Hidden; thats against the rules!!! why aren't you following the rules omg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Kyle]

what are you perm banned for again @Hidden; ? lol :rolleyes:

Edited by Samanfa (Forum Moderator): Please do not post off topic!

[RoyalPacific]

Why are we all sitting here and moaning?

[RyRy]

Where is your proof that fansites aren't using the money for personal use? Okay done? bye

That's the whole idea of a non-profit organization, that would have to be declared.

And it doesn't mean that Habbox is a charity. That's something different. It's not as black & white as you think Hidden.

[awsomlycute]

They arent taking money off us. Making a donation or not is completely upto the user, nobody is forced to give anything

[Okeanos]

you're being slightly unrealistic here. hosting, domains, vb licenses and all manner of other features are actually rather costly. I don't believe for a second that any fansites with reasonably large userbases just get all of this for free, so where else would donation money go? If habbox (and I don't know about or care to research donations on other sites) were to ask for payment for premium features then I would see your point but right now a donation is a voluntary payment with the intent of helping the site to churn out new content for the individual to enjoy - if the owner is buying meat feast pizzas with that money but the content is still there, why should it matter?

you might have a point if fansites were entirely open about their costs (and provided proof), and they only sold donator to meet those costs (meaning that once they have sold enough donator to meet their costs for a year for example, they must stop selling it). the problem is there is no way to prove exactly what their costs are or when those costs have been met.

[Mr-Trainor]

Only read half of the thread so far. If Sulake goes ahead with this then they're more brainless than I thought. They probably think people will spend more money on Habbo credits if they can't donate to fansites.