Habbo caught up in child sex scandal / Habbo Mute

[BeanEgg]

Rebecca Newton is in that video aka the late Becs, who left Sulake to create her own business 'Moshi Monsters' hmm!

[October]

That for Sulake to perform a global mute due to "a few users" for this long is proving how inefficient the moderation is, that they can't handle the amount of Habbos or requests sent in to them? :S

I don't remember this happening during the group protests or during the 4Chan Afro-Blocker raids, which crashed servers.

Thread moved by Zuth (Forum Moderator): From Habbo News & Rumours, as its better suited here!

[Greed]

I never post here anymore, but after watching the news, I thought I might. Over the last 2 years or so, Habbo has truly declined from what it used to be. Ever since the hotel merge basically. It's a shame really, I remember speaking with people on here about 7 years ago, and we all wondered what the end of Habbo would be, and when it would be, but I guess this is finally the beginning of the end.

The moderation is the only problem essentially, but I guess the mass desire to make profit is more important than the mass focus on moderation that there was a few years back. It'll be interesting to see what Habbo do, and if they're able to bounce back, but I think not personally.

It was never an issue about moderation IMO. In the last few years, everything that habbo stood for diminished as it pretty much just sold out and dumbed itself to further please the masses. They completely got rid of the filter (though, they did implement something else which is rather stupid), they became WAYYYY MORE lenient with the 'dating' thing--which in turn, allowed it to happen on a greater scale, and it all fell apart once the hotels all merged.

I am very aware that 'laws' pertaining to age of consent and age of legality are different in many regions of the world which I feel also contributes to the whole ordeal.

In all, I blame the V7 update! Kids aren't smart enough to download ShockWave. :blue_doub

[October]

A quote from the financial times article:



Sounds like Habbo all over! :rolleyes:

link to article?

[MKR&*42]

Yesss it is bloody inefficient lol. It isn't even a problem in some hotels I believe? I don't think the news has actually hit Brasil or places like Sweden yet (and it only just got to .fi + .fr + .nl an hr or so ago) so a global mute is quite silly. This is one of the only things that actually makes me want something like Hobbas (with powers to ban people for stuff like cybering) on the hotel - but then the whole security issue arises sigh.

[buttons]

I THINK IT MIGHT BE A COVER UP TBH

[October]

I THINK IT MIGHT BE A COVER UP TBH

What are they covering up, their moderation? It's been exposed, even Becs is appalled lol. As are a few other former community managers with Sulake. Jeffoo posted about it on fb and twitter too

[xxMATTGxx]

link to article?

Site is: http://www.ft.com/

I believe you may need an account to read it.

[Futz]

i hope they make it a 18+ game

[GommeInc]

This has got to be the most action Habbo has seen in years! The C4 news was incredibly interesting, and highlights just how easy it is.

Habbo should stick to their principles, this CEO or whoever it is that seems to deny it with typical corporate rubbish should be sacked. Clearly unfit to work for Sulake/Habbo if he can't look after the website and give his users the duty of care they deserve and require. He has kids for goodness sake, he should know how important child safety is.