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The Code of Conduct has been updated
>Letter from Notwen<klick me (http://www.xbox.com/en-US/press/2010/0305-whittencodeofcoduct.htm)
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(http://www.xbox.com/en-US/legal/codeOfConduct.htm)
Oh, now I can change my gamertag with "black hebrew gay" and have fun with all racists and homophobic people who will comment my gamertag and life stile. :D
Oh dear, I'm all for one openly expressing their sexual orientation, but allowing that opens up many loopholes abusive people can use, even if they aren't abusing someone with such a tag, they are certainly going to make it valid for others to imitate and mock them.
Unfortunately, despite running a tight ship, there will still be idiots hurling abuse at people because of it, and no doubt some will set about doing so by purposely finding these people on Xbox Live...
I don't understand why it's so important for some people to openly express it, I mean, sure, in the real world they should do so as openly as possible, but in a realm where people just want to relax and play games, it just seems they are far too insecure.
I say this is good for one reason, before some people couldn't use their own names because it contained an 'obscenity', and now can.
There's a time and a place for it, I don't think Xbox Live is a suitable place.
When an online profile is made, the creator can put whatever they wish in to it, and any biggotted moron looking for trouble can get reported accordingly because it's obvious what they are doing.
For Xbox Live however, many games use random matchmaking services, there's nothing stopping a moron yelling a torrent of abuse and disconnecting, of course there's nothing stopping that already, but people with different orientations then become the easy target with very little to support them other than a good memory and a report button.
In an ideal world, everyone would be able to be open without fear of abuse, unfotunately, this world is anything but ideal. I mean, sure, everyone should express themselves in a comfortable way, but not to the point where it provokes abuse with surplus information.