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Mojang please ,for the love of your game, don't add a chat report feature.

Your game is family friendly yes, I get that, but the servers on Java edition have always been self governed by the players and server moderators. Not only would it be pointless it would drain resources from improving your beautiful, wonderful game. The idea is massively unpopular from within the community and none of us know how you would do it accurately so that innocent people don't get banned. If you do add it either add it to Realms only and have it be a toggleable feature. And for servers, if you choose to add it, make it so server owners can disable the feature because, although it is your game, those servers don't belong to Mojang, but to the players who love your game. Instead you could add a censorship feature that individual accounts can choose to turn on or not, maybe in the social interactions menu. I mean those are just my thoughts on the matter, a player who loves your game, I doubt you will read this but, y'know, I just wanted to share my thoughts on the topic
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    Tak! Nie dodawajcie tego.

  • 11
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    Indeed!

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    Please don't add this feature Mojang.  Coming from a Minecraft player since 2012, this chat reporting feature will be the brain death of a core part of Java.  Please listen to the united pleas from every corner of the Java community.  It isn't just the pvper community, or builder, redstoner, or anarchy community individually, its every single Java player from all walks of life, standing unified in one goal to ask you not to implement this new feature.  Stand by your words that life for Java edition players wouldn't change when we migrated our accounts, and please follow through on your agreement to listen to us as a faithful community.

    This chat reporting feature is a solution looking for a problem.  For over a decade individual server moderators have kept the peace and enforced rules similar to the ones you wish to impose now, however it was by a server to server basis.  Enforcing this as a centralized measure will do nothing but restrict Java players in what they can do, while changing almost nothing about how servers already take care of misbehaving players.  We already have parental controls for children, additional measures should not be necessary.  Java edition is de facto built on a decentralized and freedom oriented model with an open playerbase that can act with almost free reign. Its emblematic of Minecraft at its core and symbolizes the freedom of actions that is the quintessential essence of a sandbox game. 

    Please change your mind about this new feature.

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    Also, remove the single player bans (which is a thing on some platforms) and filtering from Bedrock

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    I verily believe that chat reporting directly to Mojang Studios has no place in Minecraft because a feature like this can be easily exploited. For example, certain categories belong to servers with older players, other are very context-sensitive. Considering the amount of reports for the moderation team to filter, I highly doubt it will be possible to take the necessary details into account. It is especially worrying since false positives will result in bans to avoid false negatives, from what I understand. The fact that taking away control from server moderators is going to make the overall player experience worse is clear: we already have examples like shadow muting on servers and a terrible track record of a global ban system on Bedrock edition. This feature will either ruin multiplayer or be bypassed by server plugins. A lot of players bought licenses instead of resorting to pirating specifically to have access to multiplayer, so if Microsoft intends to keep Minecraft alive and running, I recommend they trust the community to moderate itself.

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    The solution is simple:

    1. Make chat reporting a toggleable feature.
    2. Add a parental control switch: To block children from playing on servers with chat reporting disabled.

    The result:

    * Parents don't need to worry.
    * The diverse self-moderated Minecraft communities can continue to thrive.
    * Big servers who want to attract as many young players as possible, will want to enable chat reporting. Or they'll host a separate server for underage players.

    If chat reporting is not toggleable, server admins will find workarounds and it will spin completely out of Mojang's control.

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    Normally, a chat reporting system works in an online game. However, Minecraft (Java Edition) is not the game for it as it is very community-maintained. Players have already created custom ways to ban other players who break rules.

    In Minecraft Bedrock Edition, This system is flawed but works a lot better (there being only 8 or so LINKED servers) 

    In brief summary, Mojang. Don't add this.

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    Mojang please listen to the community, there's a plethora of videos discussing the many, many, many, many issues this presents. Let us control our own servers, we shouldn't be banned from our own servers.

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    This.

  • 11
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    Take care of the EULA! don’t take access of major part in the game from your customers!

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    I really like the idea of a report function, but not if it's in the hands of Mojang. The reports should be in the hands of server owner/admins/mods. Appeal system should be in place for that aswell. Give server owners the opportunity to add their own rules to the report system. And if the infraction is really bad give owners/admins/mods the opportunity to forward this to Mojang. Would also save alot of time for Mojang.

     

    ~ Much love,

    a concerned player

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    Yep - I absolutely don't want this on my server. We're all adults, it's whitelisted only, we use 'colorful' language and tell gross jokes, and talk in ways we never would around children. Because that's what happens in real life, with adults.

    If you want to provide the *option* for it, I'm all for that! For people with mixed ages, larger servers, more publicly available and open ones, this is perfect. You can offload all the legal and ethical responsibility to Microsoft, and get a very strong level of protection and control.

    Trying to tell me what to do on a server with absolutely no interaction beyond our close friends - basically playing 'offline' and invisible to the rest of the world - that's way, way too far.

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    The problem is, Microsoft is doing this, not Mojang. Since they forced us to migrate our accounts, they've also made us accept their terms and are using that to take control over Java edition Minecraft. They want to take power out of the hands of the community so they can do whatever they want with the game. It's probably all just a plot to try and move everyone over to bedrock edition so they can just scam us of all our money using the marketplace.

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    This is absolutely appalling. Mojang should be ashamed. They're losing the community piece by piece. 

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    Why are we trying to impose the same controls that the US government is imposing on women(Banning their right to choice), on players in Minecraft servers?

    Private servers, private choices. If we want to play with cheats and hacks, this should be unreportable.

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    Lets get this thread on top!

  • 14
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    if you add this, I think, most of players will go away

  • 8
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    Amen Brother.

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    Don't moderate my **private** server for me. That's my job, not yours. AI-powered moderation always has false positives. This is a bad idea on many levels.

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    This was an immediate betrayal of our trust after migration, and this shouldn't be anywhere near my servers. What is said on my server should only ever be used by the server and clients, not a third-party moderation team that gets to decide what isn't appropriate. Wasn't Minecraft's goal to play the way you want?

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    Minecraft, the only thing your chat report system is gonna do is make people turn away from Minecraft

  • 12
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    True.

    Every plugin developer know how to make fake proof.

    the report system is BAD.

  • 14
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    global chat reports are a serious mistake

  • 9
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    Don't add this

  • 10
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    This addition needs to be scrapped. Do not add this.

  • 8
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    Tak

  • 9
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    Now I'm scared to go to new versions. What if there is an exploit in my version of Sodium that writes forbidden things on my behalf, what if there is a group of bots on the server that report everything, what if the words of my language look like a curse of another language.

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    Maybe let the people actually running, and paying for the servers decide how they want to run them. We don’t want or need third party chat moderation

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    To all of you saying that this belongs on bedrock and not java guess what? WE DONT WANT THIS NOR ARE WE BEDROCK PLAYERS OKAY WITH THIS EITHER. Dont just dismiss bedrock players guys we dont want this feature either.

  • 9
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    You are right!