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[Thraxen]

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Policy
Q: What is the policy on acceptable behaviour?
Within our public spaces, Home follows the same rules and guidelines as the
PLAYSTATION Network with regard to age stipulations and acceptable
behaviour. Home uses all the same age controls as the PS3 system software.
Within users' own private spaces, we take the view that what people get up to
in their own apartment is their own business, within reason.

Q: Will there be a restriction to the age you’ll be able to give your
avatar?
Yes. We will not have avatars which resemble children. The avatars are
adult in appearance.

Q: Will users be able to make complaints about other users?
Of course. We will operate a system of logging complaints with our
moderators, which will then be investigated. If necessary we are able to take
away a user's login rights and ban them from the service.

Q: How much control will we have over what people get up to in their
private spaces?
As stated before, our policy is that what people get up to in their own private
spaces is up to them, and a user cannot be invited to another user's private
space until they have accepted an invitation to be on their buddy list.
However, the complaints process will still operate in these private spaces, so
if people feel that they have been subjected to inappropriate behaviour while
in someone's private space, they will be able to lodge a complaint by the
usual process.

So it looks like if you want to have porn in your Home space you can... Sony is apparently going to give users a lot of freedom.  But people can also lodge complaints which could result in a ban, so if you are going to do that just make sure anyone you invite to your Home is fine with it.

[dvsone]

Ban what? Network ID? It's a free service and Network accounts are easy to create. I don't really have a problem with exposure to adult themes and content because I'm an adult. But I wouldn't promote it as a kid friendly environment because a user can easily get within proximity of another gamer or group of gamers having an explicit conversation and invite a group of people back to their pad easily enough. Maybe younger gamers could be separated and maybe they will, but you are always going to have some problems. And if a user adds a child to a friends list and then invites them back to their sex pad and they accept, how can that users be in trouble unless sony advertises the gamers age and puts a ban on using explict content in your private space. Are all voice conversions going to be recorded for investigation purposes? I don't think so. I don't think the service could ever be kid friendly.

[lando786]

I believe it is possible for them to ban you PS3's mac address since thats what myresistance.net uses to track you game stats but im not sure but this home thing looks really sweet

[RBJTech]

QUOTE(lando786 @ Mar 10 2007, 01:11 PM)

I believe it is possible for them to ban you PS3's mac address since thats what myresistance.net uses to track you game stats but im not sure but this home thing looks really sweet

I doubt it's the MAC they use - that's easy to spoof.  Each xbox or 360 has a unique Live ID Key, I expect the PS3 has something like that - encrypted of course so that it can't be spoofed easily (at least I would hope so ...)

The FAQ goes some way in answering questions - but there is an awful lot of 'ultimately' in there - ie it's on their wish list but how much of it will be implemented this year / next is anybodys guess ...