What a joke.

[karter]

notice how financier is complaining but then he entered his white house in the comp and won? how funny

anyways, the staff-judged competitions are not returning, not under paul lafo at least. he is not ready to employ people to choose competition winners. so either room competitions are not coming back or it will be a more complex set up probably, but it will be voting based that is for sure. (or they will give the responsibility to fansites, which is even worse imo)

[Odette]

If Paul LaFontaine wasn't so busy parading around on twitter with silly avatars his fangirls send him perhaps he would actually have time take notice of what is wrong and at least make an attempt to fix it before discarding the idea completely. The issue was brought up on twitter a few days ago and habbos who try to draw attention to some of the issues surrounding the comp (namely the fake giveaways) were met with replies like this:

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I would say that this was disgraceful behaviour from a CEO of a company but I wouldn't want a snide retort from Big Paul like this:

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The conversation ended abruptly when Paul threw his dolls out of the pram with threats to completely remove the room competition as it doesn't appear to cater to a wide enough audience.

All that is needed is a smidgen of staff interaction. What trouble is it really to ask somebody to patrol rooms to see if 1. they have the correct furni 2. they fit the description and aren't just a party or boost room with some new furni in and, 3. THEY HAVENT WON BEFORE WITH THE EXACT SAME ROOM.

That is shocking! The sulake board needs to get rid of Paul for good. He is beyond rude and so condescending towards habbo users, it's actually hard to believe. He is single-handedly running habbo in to the ground with his twitter antics and questionable behaviour... He a complete joke. I wouldn't be surprised if he knows he's in danger of losing his job, hence the aggressive tweets.

[Abdicators]

It's disheartening to see so much hate for Paul. Paul has done alot of things with user interest in mind;

• Users wanted more competitions, so he brought them.
• Users wanted more badges; more were added.
• Users wanted compensation for the mute; compensation was given.
• Users wanted visible in the hotel; moderators were told to actively patrol rooms
• Users wanted tighter moderation; tighter moderation was provided
• Users wanted Hobba scheme back; guardians introduced
• Users wanted rares back; LTD rares were brought out
• Users wanted more games; more games were added and Sulake even partnered with 3rd party game developers to bring MORE games.

And yet even through all of that, you all attack his actions without an ounce of decency or constructive criticism. How were some of you guys brought up, I mean really. There is a visible difference between

Ffs, Paul you ****** up again. Some **** rooms I dont like are winning the competition because they're popular and mine arent Habbo isn't fair. I'm going to quit, you should be fired you dip ****

and

Hey Paul, bit unhappy with some of the winners in the latest competitions. Could you possibly think of a way to rethink how these rooms are judged? Cheers

Some of you sicken me really. The only people who think he is in a position to lose his job are the ones attacking him. Sulake was in real financial trouble before Paul even started, and before the Channel 4 report hit they were doing great. Paul had started to make them a huge profit.

The Channel Four report has had no impact on Pauls standing as CEO, because these problems were around long before he out-sourced moderation. Infact, if you read the media every journalist under the sun is impressed with the action he took, and his active communication with you guys on twitter. How many of you before Paul, had actually talked to any CEO and had any impact on a product making millions of pounds each year?

Cut him some slack, some of you are acting like children.

[Fifty-Six]

It's disheartening to see so much hate for Paul. Paul has done alot of things with user interest in mind;

• Users wanted more competitions, so he brought them.
• Users wanted more badges; more were added.
• Users wanted compensation for the mute; compensation was given.
• Users wanted visible in the hotel; moderators were told to actively patrol rooms
• Users wanted tighter moderation; tighter moderation was provided
• Users wanted Hobba scheme back; guardians introduced
• Users wanted rares back; LTD rares were brought out
• Users wanted more games; more games were added and Sulake even partnered with 3rd party game developers to bring MORE games.

And yet even through all of that, you all attack his actions without an ounce of decency or constructive criticism. How were some of you guys brought up, I mean really. There is a visible difference between



and



Some of you sicken me really. The only people who think he is in a position to lose his job are the ones attacking him. Sulake was in real financial trouble before Paul even started, and before the Channel 4 report hit they were doing great. Paul had started to make them a huge profit.

The Channel Four report has had no impact on Pauls standing as CEO, because these problems were around long before he out-sourced moderation. Infact, if you read the media every journalist under the sun is impressed with the action he took, and his active communication with you guys on twitter. How many of you before Paul, had actually talked to any CEO and had any impact on a product making millions of pounds each year?

Cut him some slack, some of you are acting like children.

Where are those quotes from? :S Confused..

[Abdicators]

Quotes are examples to not single users out. I'm not in to targeting and attacking a person.

[Abdicators]

Wont let me edit my post.

To whoever negative repped my above post with the reason "sup suckup" and for all those that are thinking the same. Know this.

There is a grand difference between sucking up to some one, and having respect for some one in their position. He is in a highly paid job, doing something very few CEOs actually do; conversing with active users of his product and making decisions based solely on their input.

i'd rather be called a suck-up for defending some one I hold respect for, than be like who ever negative repped me because i'm angry that a decision didn't go my way. I'm man enough to say 'Well, perhaps what happened was better for the other three hundred or so million users'

[karter]

^ I somewhat agree with you. He does not deserve so much hate just because he changed his profile picture?? :S but he is sometimes a little ill-mannered. i don't agree with these though:

Users wanted compensation for the mute; compensation was given.

1 week VIP and a trophy which by the way everyone has is not a nice compensation for a whole month of mute

Users wanted tighter moderation; tighter moderation was provided

A highly inefficient moderation which resulted in hundreds of unfair bans.

Users wanted rares back; LTD rares were brought out

Yes, along with unfair timings for Australian/SG Habbos and wrong release timings


I personally think his decisions have improved after the channel 4 incident, before that he seemed really arrogant. It's nice to see that he listened to people and the new competition set up is getting removed.

[Abdicators]

You're right. Some of his replies aren't always great, but if you look at the amount of **** that trolls through his feed you can sort of understand why. You'd have to have the patience of a god to wade through it all and not come out on the otherside smelling of roses.

I agree with the timing of the limited rares, it was a good idea that was executed poorly. Its hard to do something like that though when there is such a huge difference in time zones.

On your other points though. Look at it from a business angle, 5 days of vip (which you can buy on http://habbo.com/credits ) is worth $1. In total across the hotel, that's at least $50,000 (assuming 50,000 users logged on across the mute) worth of subscription they gave away for free. And, on top of that they gave existing VIP users a full extra month. Habbo VIP is 25c, and 25c costs $5. So even if we say only 20,000 VIP users logged in across the mute period, that's another $100,000 subscription they have given away for free. That is alot of money.

To say hundreds of unjustified bans is probably an over exaggeration, there was a few; but there is in any service. Habbo isn't a product targeted at audiences of 18+ users who are happy to share their personal details. Habbo is targetted at young users who need to be protected, not only because alot of them are easily led, but because it's the law. If you're being banned by automod you just need to be more careful with your words.

[Michael]

g.c.magic has one of the ugliest mazes ive ever seen too! and what the hell is with a dating club and a police station?

[MKR&*42]

I will reply later because I want to type a huge reply...videally not on a mobile. All ill say for now, is that why the heck is he so opposed to manual systems..