Pictures of yourself on the forum

[Nixt]

Management at Habbox Forum take the protection of our users of all ages, particularly those who are younger and more vulnerable, extremely seriously. I am aware of three occasions in which matters have had to be taken to the police in my time as Management, one of which I was directly involved with after reporting a member who posed as a Police Officer. This matter was taken seriously by myself, other members of management and indeed, the police to the extent that they paid a visit to the offenders home. My point is that we are very aware of the potential risk to our members and to clarify to you guys that we do take decisive action when a potential risk is exposed.

This however, is not to say that the risk is quite as serious as you may think or some may have suggested. Two of those three were a false alarm and an ongoing investigation is yet to be confirmed. So actually, given our membership base, the prevalence of paedophiles on Habbox Forum is not quite as considerable as some of you may think! In fact I'd argue it was pretty much non-existent.

When members post their pictures they do so at their own risk. I am not trying to shift responsibility here, because we do try and protect our members, but at the end of the day if people choose to post their pictures on the forum then the (minor) risks that stem from that are theirs to take and there is in fact, very little we can do other than restrict the posting of pictures altogether, which I am not inclined to do as I think this is an overreaction.

The best thing we could really do right now is restrict guest access to the Photography section of the forum. I think implementing a time limit or a specific usergroup that needs joining is a waste of time - if a paedophile wanted to see those pictures then they would simply join those groups or make the required amount of posts until they could and lets face it, when they did, they'd be disappointed. Pictures of the nature we allow in that thread are commonplace on the internet in general, I do not believe the risk is any more considerable here than anywhere else.

[Hecktix]

Access to the Pictures & Photography forum has been restricted to Members only.

[immense]

Good change Obviously doesn't eradicate the problem but nice to put a stumbling block there

good suggestion richie

[Barmi]

Good change Obviously doesn't eradicate the problem but nice to put a stumbling block there

good suggestion richie

What are you getting at? You're dealing with human nature... it can't be 'eradicated'. I don't see why there needs to be a 'good job BUT you haven't fixed...' when it's something beyond the control of management. You just seem to be nitpicking for no reason.

[Hecktix]

What are you getting at? You're dealing with human nature... it can't be 'eradicated'. I don't see why there needs to be a 'good job BUT you haven't fixed...' when it's something beyond the control of management. You just seem to be nitpicking for no reason.

I think he was just stating it really, obviously we haven't eradicated the problem by doing what we've done and it would be stupid to assume so.

I think it is still important to highlight any risk out there.

[marriott0.01]

Why don't you have the Profile Albums and there should be a way to restrict people from viewing the profile albums. Then if people want to have pictures of themselves on the Forum they could just post them in the albums.....

[xxMATTGxx]

Why don't you have the Profile Albums and there should be a way to restrict people from viewing the profile albums. Then if people want to have pictures of themselves on the Forum they could just post them in the albums.....

I can see what you mean. But restrict what? Guests or a certain user group? Surely you wouldn't know who the paedophile was.

[Kyle]

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Edited by Oli (Forum Manager): Please do not bully other forum membres

[wixard]

this is such a stupid thread, nobody had a prob with it before
half people here get naked for each other on cam anyways so no biggie

[marriott0.01]

I can see what you mean. But restrict what? Guests or a certain user group? Surely you wouldn't know who the paedophile was.

Can't you have contact lists on your profiles, so you can do privacy settings, and if you want to hide the Albums to the general public then you can do it with only your contact list.

this is such a stupid thread, nobody had a prob with it before
half people here get naked for each other on cam anyways so no biggie

Does that include you