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Reporting - Please add a report packet that gets forwarded to the server

Very simple request. If you're going to add a chat reporting feature, then involve servers in the process as well

What does this look like? Well, simply repurpose the reporting UI to also be able to send reports to the server.

Let's say server.properties has the following:

accept-reports=true
server-report-reasons=["Hacking", "Griefing", "Stealing", ...]
show-reports-to-operators=true

When the user joins, a packet gets sent to the client indicating that the server can accept reports. The additional report reasons get added to the client

In the reason selection UI:

Report reasons for play.example.com [or "server" if streaming mode is on]
 Hacking
 Griefing
 Stealing
 Gross/graphic NSFW
 Spam
 Alt accounts
 Disrespectful behavior

Report reasons for Minecraft Community Standards
 Hate speech
 Terrorism or violent extremism
 [...]

Then, when submitting your report, have the following checkboxes available, both checked by default

[x] Report to server (play.example.com)
[x] Report to Mojang

The reason why you might wish to uncheck "Report to server" is if the server itself is violating the guidelines.

As a rudimentary default behavior, store all reports in a .json file for 1 week and print all of them in chat every time a server operator logs in. Server plugins can expand on this behavior to suit their needs

This sort of implementation will prevent important information from getting diverted from server owners, and allow a 2 minute response time to serious violations rather than a 48 hour response time.

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    In addition, server admins need the option to provide additional details to the report.  They could help explain what the background is: if this is a repeat offender that's been so far unreported (Mojang has zero history of activity prior to implementing this), if the reported comment was taken out of context, if the server admin(s) have already taken action against this player, etc.

     

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    As much as I don't like the idea of the chat report feature, if they do continue to release it into the next version this is a wonderful idea. 

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    I'm still hoping for this. If such a feature gets added, we would get rid of our chat signing bypass in a heartbeat. We're a server that follows the Minecraft Community Guidelines, but are extremely hesitant to enable a feature that essentially diverts important information from us and misleads players into thinking their report can be handled by us.