So Far So Good....and Abusing the System

The Ultimate Ban Hammer:

XBL. You log in. The fatal blade pops up and informs you that your account is suspended. There is no reasoning behind it! Maybe you were on vacation. Maybe you hadn't logged into that tag for months. Maybe you play without a mic. Your bio is blank, your gamertag is nothing offensive. Either way, you can't wrap your head around why you would get suspended when you can't think of what you did wrong.

Months ago this happened to me. Since then I have read blogs of others this has happened to. Ran across forums posts typically entitled "WTF? Banned?!?!?". The majority of these I have found are female gamers.

Stay with me now. I'm not going where you think I am.

Female gamers. I cannot say all, but most of the time it turns out that the reason for the banning is what you guys know well as the Ban Hammer. Another woman, mad-angry-jealous-bored, gathers a posse together and spams bad feedback and complaints. It's an abuse of the system, and one that just happened to a friend of mine.

Luckily XBL is getting smarter about these things. They looked at her account, saw that she hadn't logged in for several days, and saw multiple complaints. Each complaint matched up to a friend request that was entered, and then withdrawn after the complaint was filed. It was obvious to the XBL rep that this account had been falsely accused! So they removed the ban immediatly.

I am glad that XBL is finally owning up to the potential abuse of the feedback system and is willing to withdraw suspensions that don't make sense. I am appalled, but not surprised, that most of these are Chick on Chick crime. Yeah, it sounds kinda hot at first, but don't go there guys.

As long as XBL can continue to evolve their policies to best meet the demands of the its suscribers, I will have this system. 3RLOD or not.

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Dinner last night - Chicken with pasta (Hubby cooked YaY!)
Breakfast - Yogurt, Water
AM Snack - Banana, Water - First smoke at 11:30am!
Lunch - Chicken Soft Taco extra extra lettuce! Smoke
PM Snack - Apple, Water