Come on Spong, dont lower yourself!?, dont slate Xbox live because of a few racsit t**ts!

Leave feedback. It's completely impossible for Microsoft to "moderate" this - what are they going to do, listen in to everyone's conversations? There's what, a million people online, they're going to have a million people listening are they? - so just use the feedback system to lower the person's rating and make sure you never get matched in a game with them again.

Like unscrupulous lawyers, a minority of racist t**ts on Live are giving the other 5% a bad name.

Joke! It's a joke!

Governments with less money and greater populations than Microsoft do exactly that.



There isn't a million people on-line at any one time. Nowhere near. There are fewer than 3,000,000 signed, some of those with trial accounts. If we consider regional time differences, it would require everyone in a given region to be on-line simultaneously to get 1,000,000 on-line. Only if XBox owners don't have lives would this be possible, your call!

Micrsoft doesn't have to listen in. They just use voice-rec to flag users prone to racism, then listen in and fine/kick/ban them or whatever.

Technically, it's possible, if they wanted to do it. That they don't want to warrants criticism.

Twit, OK so its not impossible, just expensive, intrusive, unnecessary, and stupid...not to mention that theres already a mechanism in place to deal with this issue.

If you are on LIVE! and object to what you deem to be inappropriate behavior, then fail to leave feedback then you are as demonstrably negligent as someone in a democracy who doesn't vote. I am curious as to how much feedback the author of this article left in his adventures...

I would much prefer the current state of affairs rather than see an increase in cost. Regulating the content of voice traffic on LIVE! independent of feedback is a ludicrous proposition, though if Nintendo wanted to try it on their online sevice more power to them. If I had a child, and were concerned about this issue, I might not let my child play on LIVE!. Assume LIVE! is rated M for Mature and go from there.

Then theres the whole donnybrook of what is inappropriate. I'm not very PC myself and wouldn't care to get a warning or banning for an innocent comment like "What the (appropriate inappropriate expletive) was that for you poxy (inappropriate expletive denoting illegitimate birth)?" after someone team killed me for example. I am also quite capable of hearing any number of things other people might find offensive without serious damage to my psyche or feeling my civil rights infringed. I would humbly suggest that others develop similar skills.

I would also note that the actual racism involved is several orders of magnituide below what is apparent. The most popular racist epithet the "n-bomb" has become severely devalued as a currency of hatred. Of the myriad usages and shadings of meaning of the "n-bomb" most of those popular in current usage do not qualify in my book as racism, per se. Now I'm not going to say that there aren't classicly racist individuals using LIVE! to vent their feelings, just fewer than you imagine.



I rather think MS actually doing something like this is a good deal more frightening than some prepubescent racists.