Minecraft’s controversial new chat reporting system is here to stay, says Mojang

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Minecraft developer Mojang has said it stands by the new chat reporting system after fans complained that it could ban players from their self-hosted servers. 

Yesterday, on July 27, Mojang fully released Minecraft Java Edition 1.19.1 (opens in new tab), which contains many changes to Allay duplication, Sculk catalysts, chat features, and player reporting. The main thing that has received pushback from the Minecraft community, though, is the new chat reporting system which allows players to send individual messages for moderation and could eventually lead to being completed banned from playing Minecraft online. 

As spotted by The Gamer (opens in new tab), after the Minecraft 1.19.1 update was pre-released last month, one player took to Reddit (opens in new tab) to share why this feature is a bad idea from the perspective of a server host. As user JewelTK says in the video: "The recent chat reporting function introduced in version 1.19.1 goes against everything community servers stand for.

"A large fear many server staff, including myself, have is that we may ban a player from our server, and that player, abusing the report function with multiple accounts can get our account banned." JewelTK continues, "if Microsoft wants to enforce the rules and report system on the realms they provide, that’s okay - but they should not have a say in how our servers are run."

 JewelTK wasn’t the only person to voice concerns about the new features, which has prompted a community manager at Mojang to address the changes in the comments of a Reddit post (opens in new tab). The comment reads: "First, we know that there has been pushback to the player reporting system that is being introduced in this next update. We appreciate and value your