Halo 4 permaban for sexism

[Obliviator27]

This IS Xbox Live we're talking about. Where 12 year olds sleep with my mother and everybody calls each other a faggot because your general Live player is a generic douchebag, particularly if it's a game such as Call of Duty or Halo.

Is this just another example of people being oversensitive to everything? The moment a sandwich joke pops up, somebody gets offended? (Which, by the way, taking offense is little more than whining, I feel)

Just because a fanbase is full of jerks doesn't mean we should just accept it, and let them go on with it with the reason being "There's no use stopping them anyways". Rules should still be enforced. Not doing so would be like letting criminals run loose because people claim "that's just how society is".

Well, sometimes people like to have nice fun chatting with the more friendly strangers on a server, and it would really stink for it to be ruined by some silly kid. You could stop him by muting him, but that doesn't stop him from going to cause ruckus elsewhere. He could be muted there as well, but it's generally causing inconvenience for tons of people.

On the other hand, if bans are handed out to people who really deserve them, I'd say it's well in place, and doesn't give jerks chances to be jerks somewhere else.

I do agree here. Perhaps I mudded up my own viewpoint. I agree with these bans, as long as they're also extended further than sexist trash talk. If they're solely going to be used for that purpose, then I disagree with them.

But if the kids are behaving like this, that shows pretty clearly that
they do not yet possess the mental maturity required to play games that
were made for adults. Therefore, banning them from playing the game
might be just the right thing to do.

Also agreed. I really don't think children should have microphones in the first place. Granted, many adults are rather immature in the first place, so you can't blame online immaturity solely on children (though they do contribute) I'm not exactly against them playing mature games, as I played Halo and the like before I was into the double digits.

Really?

Really.