Opt in/Opt out swear filter

[Recursion]

There is no basis for complaint, it's user discretion, Habbox would have no responsibility over what a user chooses to do.

Habbox is a dictatorship, always has been, hence why user posting and registrations have declined massively in the last year or two and only a few months ago were they trying to drive more users to the site. You can pretty much guarantee any half sensible suggestions (such as this one) are going to be ignored.

Personally, I don't see how the forum would be made to look ugly or unprofessional, obviously the default setting would be to leave the filter on, but then give users the choice in their UserCP wether to turn it off or not, much like Habbo have done, who must have put a **** ton more thought into this filter issue than Habbox ever has.

But alas, Habbox staff think they're right all the time and refuse to listen.

[Hecktix]

Can we have a filter on threads about the filter so we don't have to repeat ourselves every 3 weeks

I probably could filter {Optional Language Filter} but I feel that may be a little Nazi-ish, but it would make our lives a lot less stressful, if I had a pound everytime this thread came up Habbox's donations would soar.

I'm not going to contribute to the discsussion, there's several threads up there that explain my view (my view as General Manager anyway, not as a hx rebel as Tom pointed out ).

[Recursion]

I probably could filter {Optional Language Filter} but I feel that may be a little Nazi-ish, but it would make our lives a lot less stressful, if I had a pound everytime this thread came up Habbox's donations would soar.

If these threads stress you, you should not be GM.

[Hecktix]

If these threads stress you, you should not be GM.

There's a thread on this issue every few weeks, it's a joke and unnecessary. There are much more important things that my staff and I can do for Habbox than repeating ourselves in this topic every month or so. If anyone has any suggestions that haven't come up a million times before, I'll put all my time into replying but once you've replied to these with an answer 10 times, it really does get sickening.

[Recursion]

There's a thread on this issue every few weeks, it's a joke and unnecessary.

Well it obviously isn't and if there's a thread about it every few weeks it's obviously a wanted feature.

[cocaine]

there's not even any point in asking, habbox for years now has gone about its way with 'habbo doesn't allow it so we won't' yet when they perhaps feel that as a result of something habbo does (in this case, remove the filter) it may result in more work for themselves (perhaps by more heavy moderating), it somehow 'doesn't become appropriate'. you name me any 11 year olds that don't know any swearwords, i'll give you a tenner.

[Hecktix]

Well it obviously isn't and if there's a thread about it every few weeks it's obviously a wanted feature.

It's a feature wanted by a few people who feel the need to swear in every post, Habbox does not accept everything members suggest and we have good reasons for doing this.

I will repeat myself once here, those saying "Habbo turn their filter off" - they don't have an option to turn the filter off on their instant messaing, minimail or their forums and I believe this is for the same reason we don't.

[Red]

I'm always in favour of a filter. I'm not young but I don't particularly wanna have to look at a load of swearing. I've only been here a few days though and can tell it's abit ott, with words filtered that arn't even swears.

[Nicola]

I'm always in favour of a filter. I'm not young but I don't particularly wanna have to look at a load of swearing. I've only been here a few days though and can tell it's abit ott, with words filtered that arn't even swears.

What kind of words are you referring to here?

Welcome to the forum btw

[Red]

'*****r' and thanks =]

LMAO OH it isn't *****r you filtered but it blocks it out anyway. still other forums don't have it blocked.