Xbox Enforcement United adds user moderation to Xbox Live

August 2nd, 2013, 01:41 Posted By: wraggster

Microsoft has announced a new Xbox Live beta program tentatively called Xbox Enforcement United, which lets members of the Xbox Live community help moderate the service.
Xbox Live has always had a user feedback system, but Microsoft says the new Enforcement United program is there to "give you a sense of ownership on the service".
"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," explains Microsoft.
"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 can then determine whether or not to apply an enforcement action like requiring a Gamertag change, or if the complaint should be escalated for one of our enforcers to review more closely."
The announcement comes after Xbox Live program manager Micheal Dunn said earlier today that Xbox One's Reputation system will rely on user feedback in order to categorise gamers based on their behavior online.
According to Dunn, "the new model will take all of the feedback from a player's online flow, put it in the system with a crazy algorithm we created and validated with an MSR PhD to make sure things are fair for everyone."
Microsoft says the new Enforcement United system is smart enough to avoid manipulation from any one individual. "We have built in a series of carefully designed controls so no individual participant can wield unchecked power over another. The system will also continually calibrate itself to understand how reliable the data is and the sources it comes from," it said.
The Xbox Enforcement United beta kicked off today, and you can sign up here. Also launched today is a new Xbox Community Level website, where Xbox Live users can apparently "earn rewards and recognition for contributing to the Xbox Live community through programs like the Enforcement United beta and the long-standing Xbox Live Ambassadors."

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