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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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    You know that thing you did in 8th grade that got you into a lot of trouble? (Just as an example. I'm sure you were precious little angels at that age). Do you really want to be held accountable to that thing permanently? Many people grow and learn that what they did at that age was bad. But they may want to come back and make amends or start fresh. They should be able to do that. Everybody deserves a second chance.

    I'm sure that there are reasons for permanent bans. Some people don't learn. You could argue that if you've had enough time to reflect, you've had time to buy a new account.

    Instead of permanent bans, chat reporting should flag potentially problematic players. Then server owners have the ability to allow or disallow potentially problematic players to join their servers.

    Those flags should be able to fall off the account after some time without a report, or the affected player should be able to appeal or earn getting their flag to fall off.

    As it stands, the permanent ban feature is problematic for a lot of reasons. And, judging by the problems that Bedrock has with chat reporting, it's impossible and impractical to moderate it long term. Even if you say you have a team that can provide high-quality moderation, eventually that team is going to change, get axed or outsourced. Then we end up with the same type of bad moderation that we see in all games that have this kind of half-baked feature.

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    Chat-reporting should be opt-in or at least opt-out in server.properties for private servers. Give the servers with chat-reporting a green tick in the server overview and those without an exclamation mark, like it was the case for http and https sites until a few years ago. Let the bans be effective ONLY for servers that have chat-reporting turned on. Otherwise, many won't dare to go to those servers for fear of being unjustly banned from their private servers.
    Allow accounts whose Microsoft account owner is marked as a minor to connect only to servers with chat-reporting (that was the whole point of migrating to Microsoft accounts, better parent controls).

    I absolutely don't care if you make chat-reporting available in realms, but it would be smarter to get more customers.

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    My suggestion: delete reporting system and add client sided chat filter, that can be turned off

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    I didn't like this new chat, I found it very bad because people who play with friends have the right to say bad words, yes. the game will endgrace, then remove it from Java.Ok

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    Why not leave it up to severs to chose the rules  

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    I find even the idea of this system abhorrent. I should be free to say whatever I want in a private server without fear of being banned. If this horrible mess only extended to officially partnered servers, then it could be somewhat more acceptable, but still unwanted. I most likely will stop playing any future updates if this abominable """feature""" is added.

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    Ew, playing Minecraft for total of 8 years and now this is the worst update feature by far.
    The update nobody asked for, nobody likes and nobody will eventually use it wisely.
    It will go the same as the Instagram reports, spam reporting someone so he will get banned for no reason but being enemy (in game). but the real maniacs will stay unbanned because nobody actually gives a F about this report system at first place, and many people still play on older versions which I don't think will have this "dumb" feature. 
    Bad update but we are sure its the Microsofts forced decision.
    L microsoft, W mojang

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    Get rid of this feature.

    Implementing this feature would not only distance the relationship between the player base and Mojang, but could easily be abused and turn much of Minecraft's current Java Edition players away from the game.

    Currently, larger Minecraft multiplayer servers such as Hypixel have their own moderation system and are doing well. Smaller servers are usually for a group of friends to play on and can EASILY be self-moderated by server owners.

    Please Mojang, listen to your loyal player base... As most of the other feedback messages suggest, please remove this feature.

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    This is officially THE worst idea I've ever heard of. I host a couple servers through Aternos and stuck them manually to 1.19. I don't think this is good idea, or that my writing does matter, but please Mojang, dont do this to the game, or at least make it possible to toggle on/off in 3rd party servers. This is censorship, and no, I don't agree with most of the things notified in the list, but I think everyone who has had some history in school knows, how censorship works and how it affects the people. It make sthe people want to leave the place with censorship. For the last time, please Mojang, remove it, or make it toggleable.

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           Your justifications for why this feature should be implemented are woefully insufficient. Many of the things this will accomplish are already done by server owners and administrators. No matter what you say about what this will achieve it will lead to some people being unfairly banned from multiplayer. 

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    Reporting as a mechanic is understandable, but I feel reporting it to Microsoft so that a user may be banned from online play is unwise, I feel it would be best to instead make this a tool for server hosts, because by providing them a simplified means of which to investigate they can more effectively manage their community as THEY see fit.

    I also want to note I object to this program due to the negative impact on mental health this will have on all of the employees who will be tasked against appeals from the sheer workload, as the developers of hack clients such as those common in 2b2t have already stated an intention to make features which report every single message stated in chat, this feature will be a mess and will negatively impact online play in more ways than one would think.

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    Make it so that it's toggleable. Also, let the administrators choose the rules. You're not doing great so far. I'm sorry. lol

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    Is no understandable?

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    I don't believe I have much to bring to the table that hasn't already, but I feel that adding in my thoughts along with everyone elses would help the case that this system is extremely flawed as-is. I've played Minecraft for about 10 years now, since I was a kid. Mostly, I would play on multiplayer servers, though a fair amount of my time was on singleplayer as well. On all the communities I went into, which were mostly major ones like Hypixel, Cubecraft, the Hive (RIP), and even Mineplex for a short bit, each one had a strong moderation system that allowed all players to feel safe in their environment, and that to a reasonable extent, the moderation was swift and fair. I see no reason for Mojang to have to waste time and budget to work through extensive moderation on millions upon millions of players, most of whom who do break the guidelines are most likely to be the ones capable of evading punishment to begin with.

     

    If it's a must, and you really have to moderate every server in Minecraft from now on, at least do it right. Many people in the community have pointed out countless flaws with this system, and while no moderation system will be perfect, there should never be "False flags" when it's unlikely the victim will receive timely support in the first place. The system should not distribute punishment ever to innocent players. It's an act that will give infamy to moderation for years to come. My greatest hope is this gets reverted and never reintroduced.

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    Flag Accounts that are under 18,

     

    make it so that a server can toggle to opt in to chat reporting.

    if they refuse to opt in, accounts that are flagged under 18 are not permitted to connect to the server.

     

    if you don't do this, don't do the reporting at all.

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    If this goes on private Minecraft servers, there's gonna be so many people leaving Minecraft. If this goes on Realms, you will lose people who buy Minecraft Realms. Honestly, this just seems like a bad idea, despite what your ToS says: You will only lose money from this.

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    This should only be on realms all other servers have there own rules and we don't need minecraft to be the mods for my server and all the other ones

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    Why does Toontown Rewritten have a better chat system than Minecraft? I'm just gonna play that.

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    I would go on a monologue about how much this is a terrible idea, but it's been said so much already and I think Microsoft has made it clear how much they care. They don't care.

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    This is worse than 1.15

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    The community does not want this. You are activally  killing your  game and you dont seem to care.

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    Yeah Im speaking in the names of most of us and thats the worst idea ever founded on minecarft. no one needs this and most of us absolutely hate it

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    Way to harsh  of rules, this makes the game really unfun to know you aren't allowed to mess around with firends anymore without the risk of getting banned. I can't even name my items japan ahaha, or talk about serious topics. e.g abo*r****

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    Please remove this feature. I understand you wanna protect the safety of your players however many messages can be taken out of context. For example me and my friends are rude to eachother in a joking way, i wouldnt wanna be banned for joking around with my friends. Many players wont play on the new update because of this and you'll lose many players. If you care for the players and your own company id get rid of this feature entirely. This is genuinely the worst idea your company has ever made. Please get rid of it as theres a reason administrators on servers exist. 

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    I do not like this feature. Stay out of third party servers. This should be an opt-in feature.

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    Having a report feature is a good thing, but the current implementation in Minecraft Java Edition restricts the control that server hosts have over their own servers for the sake of security and pushes a lot of responsibility off of server hosts and onto Mojang and Microsoft, this could be a liability problem, there needs to be a robust and easy to access appeal process that allows players to give context to the reported message and the server they were on, and rather than preventing banned players from accessing multiplayer, add the player to an official ban list, allow private server hosts to enable or disable the official ban list via the server config file, this would enable or disable player reporting for their server as well, add an icon next to the server list showing which servers have the ban list enabled or disabled, a parental option could be added to prevent a child from joining a server with the official ban list disabled, which would be enabled by default on underage accounts, this would put responsibility back in the hands of server hosts, players, and the parents of children, while also protecting the younger Minecraft community members from inappropriate content in multiplayer.

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    There is no good reason for this to be a thing on Servers. This is going to kill Minecraft when a bunch of childish people decide to mass report to silence opinions they disagree with. "Moderators" will either be overwhelmed or ban them anyway to stop dealing with the issue.

     

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    Horrible idea. Many people will abuse it. Minecraft Java has worked perfectly fine for over a decade without this. Don't fix it if it isn't broken.

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    So much for "anything you can imagine"

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    I'll let others handle the "invasion of private server owners' sovereignty" angle.

    Regardless of whatever reassurances you want to make, I do not trust first-party moderation, and especially do not trust it intruding on private servers. Banning players from multiplayer is too harsh, and the potential for abusing this system makes even one false positive—however unlikely you think it may be—worse than anything any troll can currently do to a player in-game.

    "Currently." All it takes is one troll successfully goading somebody else into bannable behavior and this system will have done more harm than trolls could've done without it. Trolls treat moderation as a game piece, not a deterrent.

    Even if 99.99% of judgments are accurate, I would rather see every troll's bad behavior continue unpunished than see one innocent person punished wrongly under this system. The stakes are too severe, and preventing even the most toxic troll in the world from playing with their own friends on their own server wouldn't actually make anybody else safer.

    I do not want this feature, I do not believe it will make players safer, and frankly I just don't like it.