{"id":32055,"date":"2012-02-06T13:04:35","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T11:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=32055"},"modified":"2012-02-06T13:11:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T11:11:32","slug":"xbox-live-banhammer-boss-announces-his-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/32055-xbox-live-banhammer-boss-announces-his-resignation","title":{"rendered":"Xbox LIVE banhammer boss announces his resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"

After almost 18 years at Microsoft<\/a>, Xbox LIVE<\/a> policy and enforcement boss Stephen “Stepto” Toulouse has announced his resignation, and I’ve only just worked out what his alias means. It seems so obvious now.<\/p>\n

Anyway, describing his reasons for leaving the company as “complex and personal”, Toulouse said on his blog that “This is a positive thing. I have nothing but confidence in the future of Microsoft and specifically Xbox and Xbox LIVE. I have enormous gratitude for my time there. I want to finish my next book, and explore other opportunities.<\/p>\n

“So there it is. I have no idea what the future holds, for the first time in my life.<\/p>\n

“This ought to be interesting!”<\/p>\n

I’m sure plenty of people will now start posting conspiracy theories about Toulouse’s resignation and the recent scamming going around on Xbox LIVE.<\/p>\n

The policy and enforcement team – whose job titles include the office of “Unicorn Ninja” – is responsible for monitoring the Xbox LIVE service, and banning malefactors. No replacement has been announced yet.<\/p>\n

Source: Stepto.com<\/a> (via GI.biz<\/a>)<\/h5>\n

Related article<\/h3>\n

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Microsoft talks Xbox LIVE security problems. Kind of.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Xbox LIVE hacks are originating on Xbox.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Xbox LIVE FIFA scam is ongoing<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“My reasons for leaving are complex and personal, but the parting could not be more amicable”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":27339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[31,91,1461,2273,89],"class_list":["post-32055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-xbox","tag-active","tag-microsoft","tag-security","tag-stephen-toulouse","tag-xbox-live"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32065,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32055\/revisions\/32065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}