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They should give you a refund if you don't want to provide personal information and you didn't agree to this up front, but at the same time, I do want Minecraft

by lacker 4y ago

They should give you a refund if you don't want to provide personal information and you didn't agree to this up front, but at the same time, I do want Minecraft to police its userbase pretty actively, because my kids use it and they are not sophisticated about things like phishing attacks. Roblox is far more unsupervised and anecdotally it's far easier to stumble into kid-inappropriate things on Roblox. Captcha just isn't as good, spammers and other bad actors can get captchas done at scale a lot cheaper than they can acquire burner phone numbers.

gmemstr 4y ago
_Is it_ up to Mojang/Microsoft to police this? Most multiplayer activity takes place on third party servers (I'm pretty sure this is the case for their Bedrock edition as well as Java edition), which have their own teams of moderators and administrators, or are small and private. Not quite sure how phishing etc. plays into this.
OkayPhysicist 4y ago
Minecraft as a whole is entirely unsupervised as of right now. Until the chat reporting feature rolls out, there is not, and has never been, any control by Mojang over the interactions of players on Java servers which, with the sole exception of the small Realms instances, are privately hosted. And that is the right way for things to be. If I'm taking the cost of hosting the servers, I get to decide who connects and who doesn't. Not Microsoft. If inappropriate behavior was taking place on my server, it would be my responsibility to ban the person or persons responsible. The wonderful thing about that federated nature is that on my Minecraft server, full of grad students with the occasional free weekend, we can discuss things like "grabbing a beer later". Whereas in a more kid-focused server, that might be deemed inappropriate. If the kid-friendly server chooses to ban my friend for that, then that's there prerogative. But he can still hang out on my server. Under centralized Microsoft rule, that message is potentially a bannable offense, not just from my server, but from all servers.
kbelder 4y ago
>I do want Minecraft to police its userbase pretty actively. I don't. A game with several players on a 3rd party server should not be a concern of Microsoft, just like what I'm saying to my son during a game of Brawl shouldn't be a concern of Nintendo. Or what I'm saying to my wife on my phone shouldn't concern AT&T.

by lacker 4y ago

gmemstr 4y ago

_Is it_ up to Mojang/Microsoft to police this? Most multiplayer activity takes place on third party servers (I'm pretty sure this is the case for their Bedrock edition as well as Java edition), which have their own teams of moderators and administrators, or are small and private. Not quite sure how phishing etc. plays into this.

OkayPhysicist 4y ago

Minecraft as a whole is entirely unsupervised as of right now. Until the chat reporting feature rolls out, there is not, and has never been, any control by Mojang over the interactions of players on Java servers which, with the sole exception of the small Realms instances, are privately hosted. And that is the right way for things to be. If I'm taking the cost of hosting the servers, I get to decide who connects and who doesn't. Not Microsoft. If inappropriate behavior was taking place on my server, it would be my responsibility to ban the person or persons responsible. The wonderful thing about that federated nature is that on my Minecraft server, full of grad students with the occasional free weekend, we can discuss things like "grabbing a beer later". Whereas in a more kid-focused server, that might be deemed inappropriate. If the kid-friendly server chooses to ban my friend for that, then that's there prerogative. But he can still hang out on my server. Under centralized Microsoft rule, that message is potentially a bannable offense, not just from my server, but from all servers.

kbelder 4y ago

>I do want Minecraft to police its userbase pretty actively. I don't. A game with several players on a 3rd party server should not be a concern of Microsoft, just like what I'm saying to my son during a game of Brawl shouldn't be a concern of Nintendo. Or what I'm saying to my wife on my phone shouldn't concern AT&T.