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Re:It seems that the good times for online Minecraft play ar... by jstarfish on Thursday September 08, 2022 @08:42PM (#32773974)
I don't know The Reason (probably child exploitation), but it's telling that within the first few comments people are discussing how to abuse the system to get Minecraft YouTubers deplatformed.

The haters are in plain sight.

Re:It seems that the good times for online Minecraft play ar... by OrangeMonkey on Thursday September 08, 2022 @09:21PM (#32774183)
The culture of our timeline is based around disliking someone online and bringing real world consequences to them. Whether that is by getting them fired or getting them banned from services its the flavor du jour.

To quote the big short - "They arn't confessing, they are bragging."

Re:It seems that the good times for online Minecraft play ar... by evr1isnxprt on Thursday September 08, 2022 @09:40PM (#32774318)
Some people dislike what Microsoft did with Minecraft online and want to make it so the service is shut down and perhaps costs jobs!

How the turn tables.

I guess people who like to use language that’s “bad” by traditional standards will have to build something new.

I see a difference between bad acts and bad language alone; people are trained to hate certain words but are powerless to prevent certain acts so low hanging fruit is over policed. It’s an outcome of human memory which is a feature of reality we can’t do much about to soothe those who fee oppressed by loss of a bit of figurative self (Minecraft no longer being “for them”).

Re:It seems that the good times for online Minecraft play ar... by philippejara on Friday September 09, 2022 @06:49AM (#32777681)
I can kind of see their point however, those youtubers are the ones that made the game popular with kids and got the game as massive as it is today in that demographic, get them banned and suddenly you have pressure on the direct connection to those people, at least in theory.

Granted, that's probably being too charitable for probably 90% of them are most likely driven by trolling/hurting the influencer I dislike, but there certainly is some space there to abuse the feature to make a stand. Unsure if there is any value to accounts now, last I played was over a decade ago, but I assume there are special account bound things now right? otherwise said influencers would just make another account and would be pointless.

Re:It seems that the good times for online Minecraft play ar... by rawling on Saturday September 10, 2022 @06:16AM (#32789297)
> haters

...in the context of "the only way to get Microsoft to roll this back is to show how abusable it is".

> Actually, fun project. The sooner it's done, the more likely it will result in this getting pulled back:

> 1) Identify a popular Minecraft YouTuber's UUID > 2) Make a report JSON object absolutely filled with gamer words > 3) Be sure to mention multiple times that "I have the no reports plugin so you can't report me" > 4) Join as many accounts as you have to a private server > 5) Sign and submit the report JSON as each of those accounts

> Famous people losing their accounts will work.

Re:It seems that the good times for online Minecraft play ar... by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS on Thursday September 08, 2022 @10:28PM (#32774600)
Just like red flag laws for firearms. Reporting systems will be abused, thus the importance of backend processes to sort it out.