Following yesterday's article on how the Xbox One will be changing the way matchmaking occurs on their next-gen console, Microsoft has today revealed a new blog post featuring details on the new reputation system that the console maker plans to enable come launch day. This new system aims to help curve many of the complaints gamers have had when they interact with their fellow players, with a simple colouring system to identify who is good and who is not so good.

With the new community-powered reputation model for Xbox One, we want to help you avoid the players you don’t want to play with. If you don’t want to play with cheats or jerks, you shouldn’t have to. Our new reputation model helps expose people that aren’t fun to be around and creates real consequences for trouble-makers that harass our good players.

So, how are we doing this? We are simplifying the mechanism for Xbox One – moving from a survey option to more direct feedback, including things like “block” or “mute player” actions into the feedback model. 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.

According to the blog post, a new algorithm will be put in place that will identify players as one of three colours: "Green = Good Player", "Yellow = Needs Improvement" or "Red = Avoid Me." Each of these colours isn't a permanent allocation, with the ability to change it by how you play. Play nice and you'll stick to the green corner, but play rough and you'll be sent to the naughty red corner.

The algorithm is looking to identify players that are repeatedly disruptive on Xbox Live. We’ll identify those players with a lower reputation score and in the worse cases they will earn the “Avoid Me” reputation. Before a player ends up with the “Avoid Me” reputation level we will have sent many different alerts to the “Needs Improvement” player reminding them how their social gaming conduct is affecting lots of other gamers.

Microsoft are also planning on making sure this new reputation isn't abused or miscalculated "and won’t penalize you for a few bad reports." The algorithm that the Xbox One uses for its reputation system will weigh each report so if a dozen people suddenly report a single user, the system will look at a variety of factors before docking their reputation. A verification will also be made to see whether the people have actually played with the person they are reporting, and also judge based on time spent as well.

For the full details on what this new reputation system will be like, head over to the official blog post for more.