[Lovefoxxx_93]

I've used that site before and never came across anything like that. Nobody even tried to strike up a conversation with me while I was on there which disappointed me.

[TheGoat]

Not really sure what the problem is.. Habbo has ALWAYS been like this.

[j0hn]

Habbo Hotel is a grotesque site. The entire site as I remember it was crawling with thousands of peadophiles who gladly used the lax, lazy moderation as a cue to prey upon children like as if it were a pick and mix store. I particularly remember the fact that peadophiles has become so used to asking children to perform webcam sex that they actually created their own acronym for it to save time - 'C2C'. I also remember the website explicitly encouraged you to ask people their 'ASL' or age, sex and location which peadophiles no doubt used in the recent court cases to help track down their prey. What makes this even worse of course, is the fact that the CEO still encourages children to use the website to 'flirt' and has done nothing to eradicate the extensive line of love furniture and beds that encourages children to engage in cyber sex. On the party floor, often the most occupied rooms would be full to bursting point of young illiterate childrens avatars dressed in skimpy, revealing outfits pretending to do erotic dances and performing cyber sex. Its a gross site, they knew their duty of care and yet they chose profits over the safety of children. They should be thoroughly ashamed, and no child should be subject to the sinister sexual undertones that the entire hotel created.

[sconter]

(Original post by Lovefoxxx_93)
I've used that site before and never came across anything like that. Nobody even tried to strike up a conversation with me while I was on there which disappointed me.

your habbo must have been ugly. feelsbadman.

[HARRY PUTAH]

I wanna go on there and troll every single one of them.

"yes I have pics.....of my huge cawk"

[Kiss]

Call in the /b/rothers!

Raids were fun.





Also, Pools closed.

[sconter]

(Original post by Kiss)
Call in the /b/rothers!

Raids were fun.





Also, Pools closed.

looks great fun..

[Drunk Punx]

(Original post by sconter)
looks great fun..

The raids really were

[Fuzzpig]

This is interesting. I too played on Habbo, and I too was engaged by these sorts of people all of the time. At that age I thought that it was boys of the same age just playing around. I only ever went on it with friends at sleep-overs (I found it boring on my own and plus I didn't have my own computer, just a family one in the living room), and we always played along to the extent that we didn't find creepy.

'Sex' was just something to giggle at. Anything else I'm sure we would have ignored as we didn't understand it, we were a group of us together at the computer so we were safer to an extent. We thought it was funny. I suppose I'm lucky I wasn't alone! I agree with what one of the articles qoted - "Avoiding the paedophiles was just part of the game". That's completely correct, and has been since the game's conception.



I wonder if the fact that more children have their own laptops now is making this more of a common (and more extreme) problem. However if anything really surprises me about this story, it's that it has only just been uncovered now.

[Fuzzpig]

(Original post by j0hn)
Habbo Hotel is a grotesque site. The entire site as I remember it was crawling with thousands of peadophiles who gladly used the lax, lazy moderation as a cue to prey upon children like as if it were a pick and mix store. I particularly remember the fact that peadophiles has become so used to asking children to perform webcam sex that they actually created their own acronym for it to save time - 'C2C'. I also remember the website explicitly encouraged you to ask people their 'ASL' or age, sex and location which peadophiles no doubt used in the recent court cases to help track down their prey. What makes this even worse of course, is the fact that the CEO still encourages children to use the website to 'flirt' and has done nothing to eradicate the extensive line of love furniture and beds that encourages children to engage in cyber sex. On the party floor, often the most occupied rooms would be full to bursting point of young illiterate childrens avatars dressed in skimpy, revealing outfits pretending to do erotic dances and performing cyber sex. Its a gross site, they knew their duty of care and yet they chose profits over the safety of children. They should be thoroughly ashamed, and no child should be subject to the sinister sexual undertones that the entire hotel created.

Honestly you have a point there. As I said in an earlier post I went on this only with friends and we'd all play the "avoid-the-paedophile game" (as I would now name it). But it's true, these conversations would begin ASL? And then you'd go on to a private room with nothing but a bed in it, which they had invited us to. With my friends we would let it get so far and then make the character exit the room, thinking that would mean that we had won the game. We would get 'married' some times and then they would start talking dirty. On the bed...

I think you're right. If these sorts of items were removed they might be making a start, and perhaps rooms should not be private. That's if rooms can still be private, it was many years since we went on there.

[Lord-Voldemort]

Am I the only one who never really encountered sex/paedophiles when on Habbo Hotel? I recall it used to be more about roleplaying, such as 'mafias' and Hogwarts-themed rooms.

[sconter]

it was literally 10 years ago i first went on habbo, mind=****ed.

[AlexandraRose]

I used to love Habbo a few years ago! Quite shocked at how it's now riddled with paedophiles. Although, even a few years ago there was plenty of very odd people on there. It's quite sad really.

[j0hn]

(Original post by aliluvschoc)
Honestly you have a point there. As I said in an earlier post I went on this only with friends and we'd all play the "avoid-the-paedophile game" (as I would now name it). But it's true, these conversations would begin ASL? And then you'd go on to a private room with nothing but a bed in it, which they had invited us to. With my friends we would let it get so far and then make the character exit the room, thinking that would mean that we had won the game. We would get 'married' some times and then they would start talking dirty. On the bed...

I think you're right. If these sorts of items were removed they might be making a start, and perhaps rooms should not be private. That's if rooms can still be private, it was many years since we went on there.

They still can be. Habbo actually gives users free double beds and rooms when they first sign up now, effectively giving the peadophiles easy access to the tools of their depravity in rooms which can be locked and uncensored through removal of the 'bobba' swear filter. If you search the word c4m on Habbo room searches, hundreds and hundreds of rooms come up inviting children in to exchange personal data and to appear naked on webcam and yet they have still done nothing to remove them. They also encourage children to effectively gamble their pocket money away in virtual casinos and 'falling furnis' which are rife with scamming and blatant theft which the moderators have refuse to acknowledge for a decade. There are no redeeming factors on Habbo which can possibly outweigh the horrors on that game and I actually think a more appropriate name would 'Hotel Peadophile'.

[Lovefoxxx_93]

(Original post by sconter)
your habbo must have been ugly. feelsbadman.

I did make it look like myself so yeah...

[-aimz]

God how long has Habbo been going for and they've only just realised this now?! I remember it being promoted in kids magazines back in 2003/4.

[Bill_Gates]

my childhood right there. Loved it!! this was at the time of gameplay habbo was just a revolution i built quite an empire and sold it on ebay for £120 big money back then :P

[sconter]

(Original post by Lovefoxxx_93)
I did make it look like myself so yeah...

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[LeaX]

I used to take that site so seriously. I'd go in the pool and be like *+♥Swimmsz'Undurh'Watuh♥+*

Urgh.

[Scumbaggio]

It was msn chat rooms in my day!