No doubt this may have been a problem with some gamers and I have recently come across a gamer who has encountered some threats towards his family even though it was verbal.
Which really led me to another Idea when it came to the reporting and messaging system in online games over Xboxlive
I'vecome across somepeople who are really disrespectul and think they can get away with taking away the enjoyment of others because they feel secure and annonymous behind the Internet but a lot of the times these people have real issues.
Reporting them will only be so effective- but I suggest if you are with a group of other gamers that witness this kind of behavious to advise them to pitch in and everyone make collective complaints towards this user.
MS should give this option to gamers in a party to really increase the effective complaints towards abusive people-
example if there is a gamer who is obviously beinga real jerk and being offensive and swearing out of context of the game or team killing:sexual harrasment, racism, threats towards your life or other family members repeatedly
you can set up an abusive vote towards a particular player and the other people can submit their votes too!
The message will pause the game or a vote will show up on all the other members screen to vote the abusive player. along the lines of:
"This person is violating conduct of Xboxlive policy and behaviour is innapropriate and is clearly being offensive to others"
check the tick box if you strongly agree, agree or disagree"
This will make a bigger impact and be unanimous then a single complaint by individual users and would be far easier and quicker.
This will not be shown to the offending gamer- as to keep the other members annonymous.
also with this group complaint and message it can be carried to the next game the offender tries to attempt to join or connect to - giving all other party members a warning of this users behaviour from the previous group of gamers
examplea message will flashthat this player has had a lot of group complaints against them -would you like to vote to allow them to join your game-please check vote.
It's all up to those players if they would like to play with this person
******I can not stress that the group voting would have to be quick, simple with only a couple of button pressesand easy to do with out interrupting game flow too much.****
The warningreputation message will also remain for some time and will only be removed once they get a reprieve from those who they offended and made the intial group complaint or they have gotten enough preferred votes from non-friend players.
some sort of group complaint policy to really teach others to be more civil and shame them into behaving more appropriatly when they enter into new games and meet new people.
I really think it takes a community effort to really make the online community more fun and not leave a sour taste.
Also to really seperate the channels for underground and casual family friendly communities too.
So those who really feel like being abusive can go to the appropriate channels and be among their fellow abusers if they're into that sort of thing
what do you guys think?
It's a step towards helping the gaming community be more involved in a very quick easy way to make gaming better online.
***p.s. it has to be a quick and simple group voting complaint
I understand sometimes you have to have a thick skin, but also some people have to learn innevitably to grow up and be more adult andthey either learn the easy way or the hard way.
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