<![CDATA[Kotaku: Banning]]> http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/kotaku.com.png <![CDATA[Kotaku: Banning]]> http://kotaku.com/tag/banning http://kotaku.com/tag/banning <![CDATA[Kotaku's New Tool: The Straight Razor of Disemvoweling]]> I think it's fair to assume that everyone on Kotaku is very familiar with the Banhammer, wielded now with force by Shiraz. But I've never been totally happy that our only options for comment management is to either do nothing or ban someone. In fact for months, maybe years, I've been asking tech to whip something up that would allow us to warn users that they are tip-toeing into banhammer country, traipsing into the cave of the angry comment moderator. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5034654&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Teachers Still Demanding Bully Ban]]> Haven't we been over this already? A year and a half after the release of the original game, a coalition of teachers' unions in the U.S., Canada, Britain, Australia, South Korea and the Caribbean are urging retailers to ban Bully: Scholarship Edition from store shelves.
"We're asking retailers to be responsible," Emily Noble, president of the Canadian Teachers' Federation, said yesterday. "Yes, they can sell it and make a buck out of this, but is this the kind of marketing that they want to be [doing], selling games that glorify violence?"
I'd daresay that's exactly the sort of marketing that video game retailers want to be doing. This reborn ban Bully movement is possibly a result of the huge outbreak of violent bullying that completely failed to occur after the release of the original game, despite prognostication of doom, gloom, and wet-willies. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=363493&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Microsoft: No One Gets Banned For Halo 3]]> Please make it stop already. First Pro-G says a Microsoft rep told them Xbox Live accounts would be banned for playing Halo 3 early. Then another rep told them that was only Microsoft employees. Finally an official statement has shown up on the site, backed up by our own communications, stating that no one is getting banned at all.
"We can confirm that Microsoft is not taking any action (such as banning Xbox Live accounts) against gamers who are playing Halo 3 before the official street date. Any rumours or speculation to the contrary are false," reads the statement issued by Microsoft this evening.
This concludes our news - less news - no news hat trick. We now return you to your regularly schedule program. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=301615&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Halo 3 Ban Only For MS Employees]]> Earlier we reported that UK gaming site Pro-G had been in touch with Microsoft who had told them flat out that playing Halo 3 before launch day would get users banned from Xbox Live, whether or not they play the game while connected to the service. Pro-G has since been contacted by another Microsoft representative, who clarified to the site that the ban only applied to Microsoft employees who played the game early. It seems odd that a representative of the company would make such a huge mistake when talking to a popular gaming news site, doesn't it? I'm suspecting that this might have been a policy that quickly proved so unpopular that it changed in a rapid fashion. Either way, unless you work for Microsoft, game on! More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=301489&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Xbox 360: Banning Consoles Not the Way to Go]]> The banning of consoles rather than accounts on modded 360s has been a hot topic as of very recently, and PlayNoEvil has their own take - it's going to be a PR nightmare. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=261971&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Blizzard's Tough Love]]> CNet has an interesting story up about the difficulty in striking a fair balance between banning too many people and not banning enough in a massively multiplayer online game. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=246623&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[A Public Commentor Execution]]>
As you may or may not know, many of Gawker's other sites do public executions, ripping away a person's commenting access publically while also shaming them with jibes about their family ancestory, currently living arrangements and, if necessary, their general appearance. More »
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