#like the whole system was that mojang trusted their userbase to handle things how they deemed fit

[spectrearia-archive]

ew, just learned about the scummy chat moderation that microsoft is implementing in the minecraft 1.19.1 update?? like?? potentially getting your account permanently banned from multiplayer servers entirely if a player reports you in chat?? awful.

some of the reasons for reporting someone are so vague too and it's very easy to see how that could be abused. the fact that microsoft said that they're cool with banning innocent people as well (as "false positives") just makes it even grosser imo

i know the feature has been in the bedrock version for years, but i guess a lot of java players were hoping that they wouldn't have to put up with that crap. unfortunately with the forced migration to a microsoft account, we all had to agree to their terms (which are different than mojang's terms) so it's well within microsoft's right to do this sort of thing.

just super scummy imo. especially considering that java has always been the version where people could play however they want without moderation, depending on the type of server.

anyway, so far it seems like the option can be disabled in server settings, but still. i'm hoping that before the update officially rolls out, they get enough backlash that they might reconsider the whole concept entirely.