Guardian System

[Abdicators]

Shorty cheats in races. so here is another one of the screens that he missed to try and beat me. >: (

[Shorty]

Shorty cheats in races. so here is another one of the screens that he missed to try and beat me. >: (

Haha :3

New Page:

[Jarkie]

Everything is starting to take more shape!

Looking rather odd.. :S

[Shorty]

Looking rather odd.. :S

1. You as a Guardian get a request.
2. You review the guide, it will display everything the guide said.
3. Votes are gathered from other Guardians
4. The votes are added together and a conclusion made.

[Jarkie]

1. You as a Guardian get a request.
2. You review the guide, it will display everything the guide said.
3. Votes are gathered from other Guardians
4. The votes are added together and a conclusion made.

Oh I see, Seems a little clearer, can't wait to have a play with it tbh! Roll on next week

[Bob1]

So the new Guardian system is essentially like... Big Brother.... ? Yeh, in my earlier post when I said I'd reserve judgement, I take that back. This seems hideous.

[atpeak]

What are they voting on? I don't get it

[Agesilaus]

A CRB check would prove someone's age and make sure they're not a creepy perv at the same time. But maybe that's a bit too ott. I don't recall any UK hobbas who lied about their age, certainly not any gold/super hobbas.

I have to agree there. They must have done some sort of verification back in the day, a part from Habbo account record, because I would say all of the Hobbas I knew about definitely were over 18, I did hear some rumour about under age Hobbas, but it was very small and I dont even know if it was true! That's on the UK hotel anyway. But, any costs involved in getting a person vetted for this should pay back the money ten fold for helping to maintain the quality of a well intentioned system that helps a product.

I'd prefer it to be 21+ because 18 year olds are hardly better than 16 but that will never happen. Obviously people under 18 will disagree but in general they're too petty and silly to be trusted with a position of responsibility. There are exceptions of course, but you have to draw the line somewhere. That said, for all we know guardians might be little better than habbo Xs in which case a minimum age limit wouldnt be needed.

Definitely agreeable there. 18 is not a bad age really when you look at it. You should have some sense of responsibility, coming out of school, going into uni and getting a job by that stage.

I would have to say that Guardians will be much better than Xs, given that they will have tools to help people. My only hope is that people will use the tools for the right reasons and to do good for Habbo. That's why it is important for the developers to have a system in place to filter out trolls and only let people in with a good sense of maturity, so we can get the best out of the system.

I cannot see there being an age limit on the Guardians. I could be wrong but I don't think guardians will have to provide any identification and I also do not believe there will be a numerical limit on how many there will be. I think a lot of people are going to be very disappointed.

I fear this will be the truth.

I've sure that goes against a privacy policy somewhere, to allow snitches to go through private conversations to check for bullying. It seems like a system that could be abused and again derails the whole point of the original problem with Habbo, that those paid to do their jobs simply get away with being unaccountable again.

I get the feeling that Guardians will NOT be able to see who is saying what, rather than a mask to distinguish between the victims and the bullies. I don’t think we will get to see who says what in the situation. That’s the impression I’m getting with some of these screenshots anyway.

Giving Habbos power with minimal staff supervision means some Habbos will abuse their privileges.

Giving Habbos power with minimal staff supervision means some Habbos will abuse their privileges.

I absolutely agree! There needs to be a staff member, watching the system, reading feedbacks given, and chatlogs to determine abuse and take action on those that are misbehaving!

This. I also think some of you are a little too worried about this age thing, Guardians are not going to have the power to review room chat logs, as far as i'm aware the only power they are going to have is to mute, kick and room ban users in the room they have been called too. Any actions they make will have to be based on what they see in the room once they get there.

That is going to make it exceedingly difficult to review bullying cases. I do not think this will be. However I could be wrong, but I want to point out that people usually report bullying ‘after’ someone has done something rather than before. They can set up a chat log system for this and mask the real name of all involved in the log, so we can provide a proper verdict.

I think people are getting way too carried away. Hobbas will never be back like pre 05 because of security and legal reasons. Hobbas were the main moderators of the hotel whilst a staff member would supervise them 24/7. This new Guardian system is a gimmick like the Habbo X team who were pretty much pants, laughed at and most didn't even care about them (nor did the staff), sorry but I'm being brutally honest here.

I agree with everything you have said with your post, but this part. Guardians are marked as the modernised Hobbas, making a return. So Paul says anyway. This is how I see it:

Hobbas had tool to help people.
Habbo Xs had no tools to help people.
Guardians will have tools to help people.

Guardians will be more like Hobbas if anything, not Habbo Xs.

Also:

Oh yeah who remembers scambusters?

I was very new when they had the old Habbo site. Can someone explain what scambusters actually was, how it worked? Wasn’t it staff operated? I’m hearing all this stuff about how they had Habbos in it.

All I remember about it was you reported a scam and got no reply what so ever. God knows if anything happened at all.

Everything is starting to take more shape!

Btw, Shorty and Abdicators, you have made some very interesting screenshots. How are you getting these? I’m sorry if you have answered this already, I may have missed it somewhere.

So the new Guardian system is essentially like... Big Brother.... ? Yeh, in my earlier post when I said I'd reserve judgement, I take that back. This seems hideous.

LOL big brother. How did you come to that? Did the images remind you?

[Kyle]

So if enough guardians vote you badly they can basically get you banned/muted? wat.

[Jarkie]

So if enough guardians vote you badly they can basically get you banned/muted? wat.

Seems that way lol :/