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Making XBox Live Less Horrifying
Gamespy has an article talking about ways to make XBox Live a better place to play. The article lists ways to improve your relations with others and generally improve the community feel of the Live network. From the article: "Xbox Live isn't always a nice place. Everyone has horror stories about some of the things they've heard (or, in rare cases, seen) coming from some of the more 'unsavory' elements of the burgeoning online community. There's a good chance (especially if you play as much Halo 2 as I do) that you've heard more racist and homophobic comments than polite ones. Now, I'm certainly no prude, and there are plenty of moments when I'll spew a steady stream of profane invectives at whichever fool just blasted my avatar. Usually, it will be something along the lines of 'Oh man, &%&$# you, you $^%#& %$@&#! I should %*#(@ tear off your $*^%@^% head and %#@#*& it!' As the old saying goes, never trust anyone who doesn't swear."
The anonymity can give people delusions of granduer. ...as explained by
John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory.
"Think you can take me? Go ahead on. It's your move." --Joe Don Baker in Final Justice
already there, its the "feedback" system. cursing, cheating, screaming, etc are all options
first they get a temporary ban, habitual griefers get a service cancelation
the problem is, that its not automatic, staff have to evaluate each "problem case" when enough negative karma is acrued, then monitor the player's behaviour, so its a slow process
May you be touched by His Noodly Appendage. RAmen.
Once I tried to get him to stop. After receiving a few 1337 insults, I responded with a post along the lines of "You are obviously a child, fat, with very few friends who gets beaten up a lot." etc. He disconnected, and was much easier to get rid of after that. I felt kind of sorry for the little shit.
Sometimes you see behaviour in online gaming that's so frickin' pointless and dumb, the perps must grow up to be psychopaths. I look forward to a sucsessful system that keeps me from having to see that crap.
At the moment the only game I'm playing is Enemy Territory. The server I play on auto mutes for saying "damn", and usually has a couple of admins with kick privileges playing. This has broader effects than removing TKers and cheaters. It also raises the level of team-play and friendly chat, and I see a lot of dads playing the kids. That makes it more fun for me.
"A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing" - Alan Perlis
whats so wrong with cursing etc? for crying out loud, if that bothers you its you with the problem.