Banning hotmail/live for member

[scottish]

This is feedback nvr, not a negative post thanks.

But i think the move towards banning hotmail for all users is one of the worst decisions made on HabboxForum to date.

As you probably know hotmail/windows live mail is one of largest email companies and most popular so banning every member who registers with a hotmail address is over the top.

Even if a normal account gets compromised, whats worst that will happen a few spams posted - which moderators are hired to deal with either way - not as if they can compromise habbo adminCP or anything :S

Your views?

[Wootzeh]

New members won't go and create a new e-mail when they see they can't user their own. They just simply won't register.

[Plank]

I haven't noticed it being a frequent problem with normal members getting hacked, and like you said, no harm can be done to the forum if they do. For staff I can understand though. Also, for people that do just use their hotmail email address, it would be a pain having to create a new email account just to register, and might put them off.

My current address is a @msn one for this, do I have to change it?

[Immenseman]

I agree to an extent. Sure, they're easy to compromise but there are now "revert links" for gmail and yahoo which ask for the same information so it's a no-brainer. They are just as easy to fill out than the hotmail ones. However, the majority of members don't even give out their emails to other members of Habbo(x) so their emails aren't under threat.

The only way you can ensure your account is safe is by using common sense not to be infected by keyloggers or istealers etc and making sure nobody knows your email. Using those two measures you should be pretty much safe.

I think this is over the top, it's the biggest email provider out there and banning it for every single member isn't right in my opinion. However, I'm not General Management and I know it would have been discussed before it was announced and they would have came to a general consensus so I respect their decision although I don't think it's correct.

[DJ::Beatz]

You have to remember that all is trying to be done here is to make your time less stressful at habbox and not having to worry as much about hackings. I know what you mean by your post, but the managements real concern is you(the members of habbox)

[FlyingJesus]

I have a separate hotmail account that's linked to this rather than my main one, and no-one in the entire world knows that address but me, so it'd be a pointless inconvenience to me anyway. For staff obviously it's more useful but members without any powers shouldn't need this extra security when most of us don't have non-hotmail addresses

[Jordy]

You have to remember that all is trying to be done here is to make your time less stressful at habbox and not having to worry as much about hackings. I know what you mean by your post, but the managements real concern is you(the members of habbox)

I hate to say it but a slightly typical reply perhaps?

I am not stressed by other people getting hacked, infact I have yet to be affected by someone else being hacked. I trust the moderation team deals with hacked accounts quickly as I've never seen them as an issue.

I also see this as another burden on registration, there's already forced verification and their first 15 posts have to be approved. You want to encourage people to register not check the members through and throughout as they're the 'future' of the forum, new people are always needed on a forum like this and we don't want to hassle them.

[nvrspk4]

We did seriously consider the point you made before implementing the system, and yes it is a serious concern. However we'll have to look at the tangible security benefits, if the registration stats don't drop off and the number of hacked users does drop off, then we will keep the system.

It really is a testing phase and if it doesn't work out then I am fine with reversing the decision. I was just trying to avoid calling it testing so people would give it a chance before calling for an end to the test - we'll be deciding when that phase ends

[scottish]

If you are going to stand by one of the worst decision ever made on this forum, you should probably make it clear to new visitors as a few people in hxhd just came in

"OMG ADMINS BANNED ALL OF MY EMAILS" and they have no clue why, so they'd probably just not sign up.

So probably another notice for guests to see.

[xxMATTGxx]

I actually don't see a big problem with this. I have been on a few forums that don't accept free emails including @msn/@live etc. Although people still sign up using their ISP email address or even something else. Like nvr as said, its a trial and error run and we will have to wait and see for the results.