Channel 4 News hosted a Facebook debate which fielded questions posed to internet safety expert John Carr, who featured in our report and is taking his concerns to the government. If it ranks as one of the highest, as one would presume it does with , underage UK users, why was a government adviser on internet child safety previously unaware of the threat it posed?
It means companies are trusted to abide by agreed standards. But that is only part of the story. It is the technology companies, the parents, the teachers, it is also the government.
It is up to all of us to address the issues. These are actions that we should never ever tolerate. A software firm which specialises in providing moderation software for online games firms claims human moderators will never stop online sex predators. Immediately after registration, several sexual encounters were made, including webcam requests.
The news report aired on British television on the evening of Tuesday, June 12, one day before the mute. Throughout the mute, Paul LaFontaine and other Sulake employees have been working on a plan to reintroduce the chat system while keeping it safe. Updates have been sent through the Habbo blog and official Twitter accounts. Despite criticism for the mute, Habbos all over the community have shown their support for Sulake by equipping candles and standing in formations in certain rooms; [3] mainly the Welcome Lounge and occasionally the Theatredome.
As a result of these "protests", the room limit was increased from to to accommodate protesters. Habbos that entered the Welcome Lounge were polled about their opinions about the events. Those that answered were given a badge to recognize their support. A few were given trophies. You can not currently receive this badge though. On June 15, two days into the mute, Paul announced "The Great Unmute", a campaign that allows Habbos to have their say, telling Sulake what they want to see in Habbo.
The site opened on Wednesday at UK time for six hours. It allowed Habbos to openly voice their concerns and opinions to Sulake. Habbos were given questions to answer "What does your community mean to you? When the six hour period ended, www. After seeing the massive amount of responses to The Great Unmute, Paul LaFontaine described a new concept called "protected democracy" which would allow a regulated environment that protects free speech while keeping the community safe.
On June 28, Sulake introduced the Parental Advisory Summit, a campaign that allows parents to participate in discussions regarding safety. The summit would involve a three-day online forum facilitated by senior managers of Sulake. According to another the blog post published on June 26, these safety measures are also planned: [7]. In response to community feedback requesting the revival of the Hobba program, Sulake decided to introduce Guardians.
Habbo Finland underwent a testing stage for the new chat system on June Any words not on the list would not be said. Spain and Brazil had their chat systems updated a few days after Finland and would provide a representative sample of users to make sure the system works efficiently.
On July 3, Norway , Sweden , and Denmark got the new chat. Finally, on Friday, July 6, Habbo. The limited chat system worked by essentially filtering words - words that are friendly and neutral e. This meant users could only say pre-approved words that are on the white list. If a user were to say a word that's not permitted, it appeared in the speech bubble as three black padlocks.
While typing, words that could be said appeared in a normal font, while words not allowed were underlined and coloured red. Top: An uncensored speech bubble with allowed words. I mean, who DO Sulake hire?! I have circled the users name in the bottom of the screenshot. Whilst it does not particularly bother me about the old dating rooms as no one had to use them, you would have thought this would be the sort of thing where Habbo could show they do know how to protect young teenagers.
Does anyone actually think Habbo will change in the long run? This is standard Sulake. Habbo will never truly change. They're achieving nothing by doing this "Habbo Mute" thing anyway because as soon as we're all unmuted we'll be back to how we were before.
About the name problem, Habbo does have a filter but there are hundreds of new accounts every day. They should really have somebody checking this out but it costs them money which they don't want to spend.
So we're back where we started again. Firstly; silly Mod! Of course there's no evidence in the chat logs Secondly, I do think they care, but I completely agree in that this is the sort of thing they should be tackling right now. The mods should look this up, see the name, and ban the user. Taking care of the rooms, adding a filter, etc, is all well and good, but users with inappropriate names certainly need dealing with too. Originally Posted by BamitsElfie! Join Date Jun Posts 49 Tokens 0.
Originally Posted by PiippBB. EDIT: Maybe they should introduce a system whereby a user isn't accepted into the hotel until their chosen username has been cleared. They could easily have one of the mods doing this in the background. Yes, it may mean new users have to wait a few hours to actually use the hotel, but in the long run it would save them time looking into these type of queries once in client, and would certainly improve the safety of users, as I feel a lot of people who were doing things they shouldn't have been doing before will probably start using these sort of names to get their point across.
I feel it's actually a really good idea.
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