A replica of Denmark in Minecraft, which was reported here, has been vandalised with some areas blown up and flags of the United States created.
Only a small area was destroyed and the flags appeared near the starting point, which points to just attention seeking as opposed to a virtual liberation attempt. Other players have cleaned up the damage, replacing it with green grass and flowers.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Thursday May 08 2014, @05:23AM
What some would see at cost, others [soylentnews.org] would consider investment [soylentnews.org].
If you choose to see it this way, organizing a "cloud" to be shared by many schools may be a better investment than asking each school to install their own server and pay for someone to maintain it
Granted, the implementation of server access control may be a bit naive (as in who would be a heartless vandal to disrupt a resource we are using in educating kids), but I still see nothing potentially wrong with the idea of running a central site.
Even this incident seems to be useful for teaching some ethical/moral/pragmatic values - as in "you don't need waste your time in being a vengeful bastard if all it takes is to plant some flowers" (with a caveat [sourceforge.net] on what may happen if you choose the revenge path)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford