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Microsoft's Xbox One reputation system is built to make trolls play with trolls

4 pointsby illdavealmost 12 years ago

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Ovidalmost 12 years ago
Hmm, very interesting quote (emphasis mine):<p>&gt; If we see consistently that people, for instance, don&#x27;t like playing with you, that you&#x27;re consistently blocked, that you&#x27;re the subject of enforcement actions because <i>you&#x27;re sending naked pictures of yourself to people that don&#x27;t want naked pictures of you</i>... Blatant things like that have the ability to quickly reduce your Reputation score.<p>If you think about it, what he just said is &quot;Microsoft is quite happy with you using Xbox one to send naked pictures of yourself so long as everyone consents.&quot;<p>On one hand, that seems a very fair attitude. On the other hand, that&#x27;s a very provocative statement (but probably not so much for the target audience).<p><i>Update</i>: I also suspect that the question is not whether or not this system can be gamed, but <i>how</i> it will be gamed. It seems a simple enough idea, but trolls are going to have fun figuring out how to exploit this. They know there will be a &quot;troll hell&quot; that no one wants to be in and they&#x27;ll do everything in their power to figure out how to push people there.<p>That being said, I love this idea (I&#x27;d probably love it more if I were a gamer).