Xbox Enforcement United is Microsoft's new player-run police squad

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Xbox Enforcement United, as it's tentatively called, allows Xbox Live Gold players to provide input on whether other players violate the Xbox code of conduct. The program will start with Gamertags, allowing volunteers to decide, through a compiled algorithm, whether certain names are offensive and violate Xbox rules.

"Members who join the Enforcement United beta will participate by providing their opinions on whether particular content, initially Gamertags, violate the Xbox Live Code of Conduct," Microsoft writes. "These decisions from participants feed into an algorithm our team developed. That algorithm takes several factors into account like how many participants believe there had been a violation and how reliably those individual members' historical decisions aligned with the general consensus."

The system then decides whether the violator in question needs to change his Gamertag, or if it should go to an official Microsoft enforcer for review. Enforcement United launches alongside the new Xbox Community Level, which rewards players for participating in services such as Xbox Live Ambassadors and Enforcement United.

This is a different step than the proposed reputation system for Xbox One, which pits troublesome players with troublesome players in a separate matchmaking layer online.

Beta can be found at https://enforcement.xbox.com/United

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Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2013/08/01/xbox-enforcement-united-is-microsofts-new-player-run-police-squ/

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FamousPosted:

I don't get why some of you guys think this is a bad idea. Worst that will happen is the user getting a force name change lol

FYIPosted:

People who are in big clans etc will get people banned etc

GTFCPosted:

I really can't see this ending well....

ExoticWolfsPosted:

THCv3 I think this is a terrible idea. 1 guy and his whole friends list can gang up on 1 guy and get him banned.


Yeah, that is one thing people could do. But I hope if you abuse it you will get a warning/suspended/ban. That will be the only way people won't abuse it.

THCv3Posted:

I think this is a terrible idea. 1 guy and his whole friends list can gang up on 1 guy and get him banned.

WispPosted:

Can't they decide this their self?

OmgCallOfDutyPosted:

Sanchezio As others have posted, what will Microsoft do about people just trolling and checking negative every time?


It's just like abusing the reporting system on the Xbox 360.

You will be banned.

PathosPosted:

This is just going to get abused so badly. Good thing I'm not getting the new consoles straight away, so I can see how all of this plans out.

MckPosted:

The benefits of being an xbox ambassador is we get to trial this before others :D

ItemPosted:

Im in http://gyazo.com/bc08d7382d381e62a781d602201f7189