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Remove Chat Reporting and Player Banning - It's Completely Unjustifiable

Frankly, as a long-time player, I do not believe there is any justifiable reason to have either Chat Reporting or Player Banning in a community-driven game like Minecraft.

 

I get it, Mojang / Minecraft wants to be "child-friendly" and prevent "hate speech" or "discrimination" to look good from a PR perspective, but I think that's stupid; everything has been perfectly fine for years leaving player banning entirely up to individual server owners. 

 

The primary issue of whether a player gets banned is that it's arbitrarily up to an AI robot instead of a real person, which results in a lot of false positives, like IXBToyCat (along with other streamers) being banned from his own single-player world; sure, technically it is a Realm server, but it is a Realm server only he accesses. The fact that some random person was able to submit a "hate speech or discrimination" claim against him without any evidence I think is another big issue, if Mojang actually thinks this "Chat Reporting" and "Player Banning" is important, then there needs to be safeguards in place to prevent trolling and false positives. 

 

Even if there were appropriate safeguards in place, though, I still don't think banning a player is an appropriate solution. The correct solution in this scenario, if it is real, is simply to temporarily prevent the player from chatting on the server. For "hate speech" or "discrimination" that is a far more appropriate punishment than outright banning. 

 

Ideally though just remove this nonsense

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    If I'm being honest, I think that the "Chat Reporting" and analysis is an abuse of privacy and user security. The fact that a player could potentially get banned for swearing or saying whatever "naughty" words in a single player world could result in them being banned from playing Minecraft entirely or from accessing all Minecraft servers (especially if it's their own that they host), I believe, is also a miscarriage of justice. I don't believe there's any justifiable reason for Mojang / Minecraft to track what players say and report it back to their AI report bot to analyze. 

     

    "Chat Reporting" is an invasion of players' privacy, and "Player Banning" is an abuse towards the entire Minecraft community. I stand by my declaration that there is absolutely no justifiable reason for Mojang / Minecraft to implement these "features" in the game. Please immediately remove them. 

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    A better idea is to leave moderation up to the server owners and their mod team, and have a form for someone to audit the server if they fail to moderate to a certain level (Like not allowing racism, calls to violence, etc) Most larger servers like Hypixel and such seem to do just fine moderating themselves.and most smaller servers are private ones that rarely need the report feature either.

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    Once again pushing the replacement of player bans with account flagging. Providing independent servers with a reliable cross-community moderation system integrated into the game itself. Server owners decide who they let into their servers and decide if those they let in can use the chat.

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    I don’t think a cross-community moderation system should even be a part of the game. I oppose the game / Mojang / Microsoft doing any moderation at all. Whether a player is muted on or banned from a server should be that server owner’s decision and should not influence or affect any other servers. I hate that Mojang would incorporate something so egregious as chat reporting and player banning in the game. Part of a sandbox game is allowing players to express themselves however they wish.

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    I agree that there shouldn't be a cross-community moderation system. But without a miracle Mojang will never remove it. I'd go with account flags and leaving the decided final action up to server owners over Mojang support and Microsoft being judge, jury and executioner every time I'm asked.