yes that is a random preson stating unproved facts, who is not even a professional and cannot backup his facts with any real evidence, and probably has not had any time with the move... good luck with that one pretty sure it's flamebait

Dance Central does show you on screen, it is a little silhouette on the right hand side.  It probably isn't even tracking for specific body parts.  They are most likely using the depth point cloud to test against an expected depth point cloud and based on how close they are, determine the accuracy of the dance move.

Thats likely by design, it's a GAME after all.  You would have to be a trained dancer to perfectly match all the moves in the game.  It's like playing drums in Rock Band (same company), there is a some leeway given to how close to the note you need to be for it to be registered correctly.  I've seen some friends play who get good scores but if you actually listen to what they're hitting the beat is very inconsistent, you wouldn't say that that person is performing a good rhythm.

Also worth noting is that the game comes with different skill levels and it is a pretty safe bet that nobody is playing on Ibiza hard core mode in the public offerings the game has been demonstrated to date.

I can tell you that if I see either of these, I will act on both. And you can't really go by the length of the ban; it's based on your prior moderations that determines the length. Someone who habitually trolls systems and gets caught will have a longer ban than someone who loses it once and goes after another user.

Hrm... well, I don't see every alert (I'm not going into specifics), but I've not seen the first one before. However, the edit log shows that he has edited the post, and as is now, an opinional post with no flames. As for the other 2, I've also not seen those, but I have looked into it, and issued a warning on it, which is the proper first step for us to do.

Alas, the one flaw in my otherwise perfect plan :P

Every since I think it was late 2008/early 2009 the mod staff was shuffled moderation has gone to crap, specially concerning 360 trolling.

In the old days mods would read the forum and check post history which resulted in waaay better moderation.

These days they just manage the report queue so without background information on the poster everything is considered "just opinion". So trolling is a free for all game again, specially on the X360 subforum. Try something like this talking about the Wii or the PS3 and you'll be toast.

Heck, I took TWO bans for stating a truth. For the record, one was a truth which shed a bad light on PS3 posters, the other shed a bad light on X360 posters.

That's why I suggest anyone who's serious about a gaming forum to just join GAF. Moderators there are quirky but they can spot a troll miles away. To give you an idea, Crazzyman lasted months if not years here. On GAF, didn't last a week.

I do not want to start some sort of forum moderators complaing post but it is unfortunate that two bans have been issued when it probably should simply have been locked.

The original article from the BBC is a lot more informative. The article linked here is a flamatory snippet of that article which actually has very little to do with how the Kinect system will be used for gaming and is a sound bite from somebody working on something which sounds like it has been superseded by commercially off the shelf products, nothing to unusual for the academic community.

Of course this is in hindsight and actually haveimg the time to follow everything through to the natural conclusion is not always possible but I do think this thread got through the net.

GAF sucks, nothing but japanophiles talking about niche titles that barely anybody cares about. 
 There is plenty of 360 trolling in there aswell, especially in the npd, forza, and kinect threads.