Microsoft cracks down on XBL homophobia

[Lil' ½ Dead]

http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming...ophobia-675171

Microsoft has made a small but vitally important step forward in improving the overall tone of the online chat and gaming banter within its Xbox Live community

If you have ever played against strangers on Xbox Live then you have most likely been exposed to a whole array of homophobic insults, regularly blasted out by frustrated teens on the gaming service.

And while it is difficult for Microsoft – and its millions of gaming customers on Live – to effectively police the service to weed out this widespread homophobia, the fact that the company has now announced a change to its Code of Conduct for the service, whereby you can describe your sexual orientation as gay, straight, bi, lesbian or transgender - is a major step in the right direction towards trying to inform and educate the many ignorant gamers out there.

[AuraNova]

Sounds like a great idea on paper, but the problem is that will now leave it open to those said "teens" to say derogatory things to gays deliberately. It's not gonna stop them from being a jackass over XBL.

[Skyguy]

So instead of little pre-teen idiots calling you names, now they can call you names because you TOLD THEM you are actually gay for real?

Who thought this crap up?