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Player Chat Reporting Feedback

We've received a number of questions since player chat reporting in Java first went into snapshot a few weeks ago. To give you a better understanding of how this feature will work and for answers to common questions, head over to our new blog post and Player Chat Report FAQ.

If you do have any additional thoughts and feedback on player chat reporting then let us know below in the comments.

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    First thing first I didn't want to migrate onto microsoft account, I was happy as it was with mojang one, but the day I couldn't access minecraft I got pissed and then I moved onto it just cause of it, I wanted to play the game. People wanna play it as they want, some parts of the language used is required, even if it's some kind of harassment since there are reasons that you cannot deduct only on the chat, some kind of third party actions like cheating or building profanities as well as voice chat while not using microphone, only listening. Thing you are doing there is limiting the usage of minecraft chat and making people use external communicators, making it worse for people that want to stay anonymous as well as younger audience. Most of servers have already some kind of moderation but they leave some part of freedom. Limiting the freedom of speech, even if it's about theoretically bad things, limits also the ability to make all known "dark jokes" on public servers while those are dedicated for older audience. It's better to make people conscious about those things than limit speech. Some people use minecraft as a way to calm themselves so they need more freedom in such times while playing online. Giving them ban to all the online services, even if those accept that behavior, like private servers for small groups, makes f.e. suicidal people more distressed, what can lead to diverse things. You have to remember that games are for every age group so you shouldn't limit them

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    You need to just remove it, the whole community has been built around the whole idea of being able to control our own worlds and servers, a ban system like this always ends terribly for everyone. Our system works, we have our own moderation tools, its why java works so well, we don't need things like this ruining a system that works. If a Server wants moderation, they have tools to do that themselves, mods, plugins, we have these features to do these things, adding a feature like this is a terrible idea, and that's not even taking into account the reasons you can get banned. We have servers that list rules for what you cant do, if you break those, you can be banned, or warned, but different servers have different rules.

    There should be no filters, no bans, nothing, we have to tools already. This feature will take away peoples ability to play a game they love. Our system works, our community adapts and changes to make it so if a server wants moderation, it can censor words, it can automatically ban people, but the majority of the community don't want that. This game is about creating worlds, and playing with friends, if someone gets banned in other servers, rightfully or not, they can't play with friends anymore, they're removed from a community they're a part of, even if they may not have followed rules on one server, doesn't mean they wont on another.

    If you do this change, there will very likely be a wave of bans after bans of innocent people very quickly.

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    Not all of us share Microsoft’s far-left agenda. This definitely has to be the worst change in over a decade and will encourage game piracy and dropping the Mojang auth servers for joining third-party servers. Realm owners have already been cancelling for the changes made to that service in particular.

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    Remove the reporting system entirely, this is both unneeded and ripe for abuse. As a server admin I can deal with abuse and rule breaking myself, its part of owning a server. I do not need assistance from unknown, untrusted, and biased people for moderating my own private server.

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    This system is just a plain bad idea. I understand the intention to protect vulnerable members of the player base, but there are better ways to go about it, instead of restricting people playing on private servers, maybe provide a way to disable multiplayer on profiles with parental controls

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    I have strong concerns for how this could be abused by malicious players. I know someone with a minecon cape whose email has been found somehow who regularly gets requests to buy the account. I could see people falsely reporting these players and there being little they could do to get a valuable account back. I’ve played this game since sprint 2011 and this is by far the worst thing I have ever seen be attempted to include in the game. I know so many kids who grew up with the game and don’t know anyone who had issues warranting this kind of overzealous control in the name of “security and player safety.” I have never felt less secure and more threatened as a player as I have after seeing the latest snapshots. The total disregard for the community and it’s feedback is pitiful, and I have no intentions of updating the game further unless the modding or plug-in community can bypass this “feature.”

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    Truly speaking, I do understand the want for a reporting and moderation feature, 

    however, Minecraft servers have grown and developed much over the past 10 years, with their own staff, plugins, etc, and a unique hierarchy in place (or not) per server.

    If you do really want to add this feature and plan on not listening to the community outrage i can only suggest that you at the bare minimum make it so we can just opt out of it for both players and server owners. 

    Or you could also add a feature into which players with child accounts (Microsoft) and under parental controls add a toggle to where they can only play on servers with the moderation and chat reporting features enabled.

    I really hope you are listening to us.

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    This is ridiculous and completely goes against the original idea of the game being a free roam no rules sandbox, if you're going to force this implementation onto us you should at least give individual server owners the right to disable it for themselves.

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    This is frankly, unacceptable. Minecraft because of the community, and you are now slapping it in the face. Mojang and Microsoft have no moral right to monitor the private communications of privately owned servers. Furthermore, this will push people to unauthenticated servers, which will damage the safety and security of Minecraft as a whole.

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    As someone who runs a server, several servers at that we have all found it too risky to run on any update past 1.18.2. This could lead to my members being banned unjustly, just for joking around in game chat, or making a comment that someone doesn't like. This feature could also be abused to ban many people, like myself, and I am on my servers quite a bit, someone could join wanting to troll and report me over and over for no reason. I don't entirely know how the report system works but if it is anything like bedrock where people can get banned for literally nothing, this this would be a horrible feature. I give it a few months after this update releases and all the major youtubers will be banned, many server owners, server admins, and maybe even some of your own staff.

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    First I am against the idea as is and probably will not update my servers unless this gets better.

    If the problem is with someone's speech, the solution should be a mute and never a ban.

    Second, chat is not the problem minecraft needs help moderating. Hacking is far worse right now. One person with xray can destroy an economy, one pvp hacker with reach or flying makes you want to quit pvp.

    Third, servers need options to turn this off. In the configuration of the server you should be able to set the level of moderation severity. (An example)
    0 none and reports cannot be submitted
    1 none
    2 hackers can't join
    3 hackers cant join and people can be muted

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    You know how some sins are unforgivable?

    this is one of them...

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    this is one of the worst ideas i've even seen period

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    Don't do it

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    Mojang you have made a lot of questionable decisions about this game over the last decade. 1.9's combat for example, but this is just flat out a bad situation. Bedrock is such a despised version of the game because of things like this, Java players already feel like you are trying to slowly phase out java, and this is a good way to snuff out that player base.

    Servers have been self moderating for years.Third party servers that aren't running on your hardware should not be under your jurisdiction. I hear people saying Microsoft has good intentions, but I refuse to believe that. I've seen countless times bans that are completely unwarranted not get overturned.

    Hell, I reported a hacker in a game and got comm banned for a week myself, the hacker never got banned. So no, I don't trust a multi-billion dollar company to moderate properly. You clearly don't care about what people who do play the game say or you wouldn't be recklessly pushing forward with this god awful system.

    I'm not the only one who will quit playing the game entirely over this system, I don't play bedrock for a number of reason, the garbage moderation included, and I'll quit playing java entirely over this change. It really comes down to you thinking you know better than your core playerbase, and you don't. This is why people were adverse to the account migration because we knew it'd lead to this.

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    This is a horrible idea! The Minecraft Java community has been moderating individual server chat for years without the need for Mojang/Microsoft to take the role. It also shows the lack of trust for the Minecraft Java community where we have moderated ourselves for years successfully (Servers banning hackers/cheaters, users behaving inappropriately, toxic players and abusive players). Almost all of the Java community including content creators (all ages) opposes the idea of Mojang/Microsoft taking the control away from the player base as if we have not managed to find our own methods to control toxic/inappropriate behaviour in our servers.

    This is not a case of the silent majority who are happy with the changes; as you can see in this feedback forum the sheer amount of resistance to this being implemented, lots of major content creators speaking about it and even players who normally do not bother interacting with game development are all coming together to oppose this horrific addition.

    We stand together to oppose this change and will not accept it as it will lead the game down a dark path that we do not want. Furthermore, many servers have stated that if this is implemented they simply will not update to 1.19.1+.

    Do not add the chat moderation Mojang/Microsoft. We (the Minecraft Java community) do not need or want it. Thanks.

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    Do not implement this feature. As others have said, this is a terrible idea. Server owners and moderators don't need this feature and would be a bad addition to this game. People will get false reported and many videos have been published of your 'trustworthy moderators' straight up randomly banning messages.

    People on Realms are even less in need of this feature - most people joke around and say things your moderators would immediately ban, even if all other players in the Realm wouldn't even think twice about the message that was sent.

    As a final plea for Microsoft, don't add this. Minecraft's playerbase will diminish and eventually die out, and that's not what you want, right?

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    While I think chat monitoring is a good idea in concept, the way you are executing it feels like there is no trust between the player base and Microsoft. Please, stop this crazy feature because server moderators can do it, or at least make it togglable because more options is better for the community and still safe for people who need it.

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    This system has its place. While the overwhelming majority of Java Edition users do not want this at all in any capacity, it does have its place. That place has to be decided by us, not you.

    As a server owner with a full moderation team,

    WE decide who gets punished,

    WE have the tools,

    WE have the context to every situation, YOU do not. Taking 4 lines of surrounding chat is simply not enough to provide context to every situation. Meaning even when you do your best to make an educated decision on a report, it can and will be false.

    You're now bypassing our moderation system which has been in place for years and works perfectly fine, with no means of appeal. Yes, you can go fill out your new ban appeal, but it'll just get reviewed with the same evidence that was provided in the first place, which will likely lead to the same result.

    We may occasionally make false bans or mutes, yes. But when a player appeals, we can see we were wrong and adjust accordingly. This can happen with every system on every platform.

    You DO NOT have any means of getting MORE context to a situation. WE DO.

    Make an option within the server. properties file to disable player "safety features" from applying to your server and to opt out of the account ban-list

    Make a prompt on attempting to join the server that will tell the player that the server they are attempting to join is under Third-Party moderation.

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    I was going to write out a whole essay on why this is a bad idea, but I decided to report the post instead. Maybe that'll get the message across of how annoying it will be to field constant false reports.

    I had a friend report an Instagram image of mine once because she thought she looked ugly in the photo. We were high schoolers. If a high schooler can't use a report feature correctly, I doubt a large portion of Minecraft's player base will be able to.

    Save yourselves the effort.

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    Honestly not sure what you were expecting from this thread. The community's position on this feature is relatively obvious. 

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    My two long comments on this are still pending approval for some reason. I don't want to have to repost them.

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    Get ratio'd 

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    If this still came out, the only thing that I would want is for people to not be banned from their solo worlds, I get getting banned from online servers (to an extent) but don’t ban someone from local worlds.

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    remove it. period, no compromises. it's a terrible idea that will have extreme consequences for both Microsoft and the game as a whole, and does not belong in Minecraft what so ever. listen to your community, or you won't have one.

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    The chat report feature and subsequent global ban feature is a terrible one. I thought Minecraft was eternal as a game but im now certain it is being actively ruined, and will soon die if these features are added. Listen to your community.

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    More suggestions continuing from above:

    • Include the quote of their chat message in the warning or ban screen. This will help players to clearly understand what behavior isn't acceptable. And even better, it with also help to avoid players stirring up controversy by posting screenshots of ambiguous ban screens and claiming they were banned unfairly, because what they said will be in the screenshot.
    • Let players that sent in a report know if their report did not require action. This will help those sending in reports to also understand what actually violates the rules. This may also help the community feel more at ease if the reporting system is demonstrated to be lenient. And even better, it will help to lower the number of unnecessary reports coming in and allow moderators to take their time and make better decisions.
    • Allow servers to manually whitelist specific banned players. At the very least, this will allow private groups to allow their friends in if they have been banned from everywhere else. This will also allow server admins to stay in control of their servers even if they are banned from everywhere else. This will mitigate the biggest issues with the bans being global, while still keeping them global, and will help reduce the current fear players have of losing their accounts for simply playing online. As long as players can stay on their own servers and continue playing with their friends privately, you don't have to worry about them causing trouble elsewhere.
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    Just make it an opt-in for servers owners that want it!

    Centralized moderation may be useful for admins with too little time or money to do the moderation themselves.  But, in its current form all it can be is an anti-feature.

    For me Minecraft always was a game about freedom: no clear goal, no predefined rules, numerous mods changing the game's mechanics heavily, both child-safe and complete anarchy servers available.  Now you are destroying the basic feel of the game for many players, like you already have done on bugrock.

    I cannot fathom launching any minecraft version containing the new reporting until there are mods (that I will certainly use), both client- and server-side, that remove that implementation of chat signing and reporting entirely.

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    Get rid of this!!! This is not gonna help Minecraft Java in any way if y’all add this ima stop playing mc entirely

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    No, just no! We've been used to server-specific moderation and it has gone very well for the past decade. 

    Just look on Reddit, Youtube and Twitter to see how unpopular this feature is. 

    What if I send a message on a private server that might seem harsh out of it's context, but is totally unharmful with the full convo?

    EDIT: I'm feeling more insecure now knowing that I could be banned from the game because of a simple message

    EDIT #2: What about streamers that could get stream-sniped?