Minecraft Moderation is a Mistake

If you haven't been keeping up with the updates, not only did Mojang continue to deliver a crappy update that was entirely lacking in promised features, but managed to include a feature that completely fucked any ounce of trust the community had into the Microsoft-owned studio.

When Mojang announced it's account migration to Microsoft accounts, The community was told it was because of account features. Mojang accounts were an old and slightly outdated system. It wasn't well maintained, leaving it in the dust when it came to typical features like 2FA. For whatever reason you need 2FA on a video game account today, beats me. Just have a good password, I say.

Well, long story short: Microsoft fucked that up so hard, having other plans they wanted to do, with the new Chat Moderation being one of them. It's such a faulty system with no real purpose. Everything multiplayer in Minecraft is either community-ran or invite-only. If any bad actors exist, anyone has the ability to deal with them, and if the staff of the server don't, go find a new server.

I've been Minecraft since they added Jungle temples. Sure, not an alpha or beta veteran, but it's still been awhile. Never in all my time playing Multiplayer servers did I once go "I wish this game could permanently ban players from everywhere". The only feature they really needed to add was client-side mute.

And now there are reports that it's such a flawed program, that players who haven't done anything wrong are getting permanently banned for having messages reported out-of-context. Microsoft thought they were being clever when they set it up to send surrounding messages on report, but we aren't fucking robots. We don't immediately respond to context all the time, sometimes it is acquired over time. Inside jokes are often an example, or just a relationship with someone else that makes most contreversial topics easy to talk about.

I've been playing Team Fortress 2 lately. TF2 has a mute option to not hear or see chats from a player. If you block a player, you won't ever join their server. Valve runs official servers for this game, so this would be a more appropriate game to have a moderation system in, right? Valve ended up removing the ability to report for profanity or anything. People say slurs and shit all the time in official matchmaking servers, yet I still find it to be a great community, with funny moments and enjoyable times.

Listen to your community Mojang. It made sense when you did it for Bedrock, considering that's the actual kids version (I don't care how many adults say they play Bedrock, it sucks and it's mobile friendly, which is enough for kids). It doesn't for Java.

This is why I'll never have another Minecraft server.