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Minecraft players are furious over new reporting system
Mojang people manager has said that the community has no intention of returning its implementation of a controversial new player stating feature, and called for an end to abuse of Mojang workers.
Reddit said that MojangMeesh clarified that, while the company values player feedback, it won’t necessarily “change the design principles Mojang Studios adheres to—this includes the upcoming reporting system”.
They also asked sad players to ease “following Mojang employees around here on Reddit” to harass them in unrelated threads. The comment has received nearly 2000 downvotes at time of writing.
Minecraft players have been up in arms about the new player stating system since it was declared a month ago, but it was finally made as part of yesterday’s 1.19.1 update.
It allows players on both private and Mojang-hosted multiplayer servers to flag inappropriate messages in chat for review by Mojang investigators, potentially resulting in suspensions and bans for players that violate Minecraft’s community guidelines even on self-hosted servers.
Fans are worried that the system will result in player blocks for messages taken out of context, and more broadly that it gives Microsoft too much power to dictate the content of discussions on its platform.
Their argument maybe is without merit, even if some players are behaving terribly about it.
It’s difficult to see a world where this system doesn’t ban someone because a joke between friends got misinterpreted.
There will be an appeals process, though, and it’s also right that there are plenty of misconceptions flying around about how the system actually works.
Scroll through any thread on the matter and it won’t be long before you find someone complaining about having their private server’s chat ‘monitored’ by Microsoft, or worried that they’ll be banned for cursing: neither of which are possible according to Mojang’s own FAQ on the reporting system.
