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Come help us protect the innocent Habbo citizens from the AIDS infestation.

Anonymous is the same group of people that regularly engages in raiding http://habbo.com/ , a site full of young children, with avatars that are always black with an afro and usually attempting to replicate a swastika with their respective avatars.

Not that causing seizures is the same thing as using obscenities and generally harassing children, but it's not a wholesome activity.

A large concentration of internet AIDS can be found in the swimming pool at http://www.habbo.com/. It is advised that we go and block off the pool to help protect it's users from such ailments.

Can my child's Habbo Coins or 'Furni' be stolen?

Not if your child keeps their password secret. Someone else needs to know their password to check into the hotel as them and take their 'furni' or spend their Habbo Credits. Unfortunately, there are always some children who try to trick others into giving out their passwords, or who won't play fair. However, if your child keeps their password secret and uses the safe trading window as instructed, their account and items will remain safe.

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Every conversation in the hotel passes through the Bobba Filter before it appears on the screen. This filters out swearing, racist and sexist terms and other words unsuitable for children. It also filters out email addresses and phone numbers so that they can't be given out. The filter covers Habbo names and missions, as well as room names and descriptions. The filters are updated on a daily basis and contain many hundreds of words and terms.

-- Habbo ~ Help & Safety

On 7/12/06, a band of brothers from /b/, YTMND, SomethingAwful, GNAA, Encyclopedia Dramatica and myg0t took a vow. A vow to close the Habbo Hotel pool, for it was ridden with AIDS and diabeetus. It was later confirmed that the pool also had, in fact, stingrays. The brothers valiantly closed the pool, despite the outcrys from the habbofags, and the mods' banhammer. That vow was taken nearly a year ago. The AIDS is still there. It is time to honor the B&, to contain the AIDS... To close the pool.

WHAT: Reunion of The Great Habbo Raid of 7/12/06
WHEN: July 12th, 2007, 1700 EST (2200 GMT)
WHERE: Habbo US; Habbo UK
WHO: eBaumsworld and Hal Turner (If anyone asks, THEY DID IT, lol)
WHY: Pool's got AIDS!

More info:
Encyclopedia Dramatica
PoolsClosed.com

What? Habbo Hotel? Even their website states they only have like 3,750 users online. I'm not sure that was the best example.

Yet if you were a 14 year old British girl, you might appreciate Habbo Hotel (Shock Req.)

Were you a Finnish (Suomi) teen, you might appreciate Hotelli Kultakala (Shock Req.)

Any really up-to-date book or article on Design For Community: The Art of Connecting Real People in Virtual Places ought to mention the artificially intelligent intruders likely to be met on-line in either virtual reality or ostensibly real situations.

For instance, suppose you check into the online virtual-reality Habbo Hotel. How will the readers of Derek Powazek's book or of Cliff Lampe's review be able to deal with Turing-Test-complete virtual entities ?.

Please move over, human society, and make room on-line and in your hearts for our fellow stewards of Earth coming to greet us amid the approach of Technological Singularity!