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What's a mob vote? I'm here from all.
There's an annual Minecraft event where they announce what's coming in the next update (among other stuff). In the past, players could vote during the event to choose which of three mobs (animals/creatures) would be added to the game. Now they've announced they're no longer doing that.
Democracy is dead
Hopefully laziness is. What usually happened is a single mob going through and being implemented a while later, when modders implemented all three in a day or so. Also it being a yearly even instead of being more often. Ultimately mob votes led to 2/3rds of the people being disappointed and some boring mobs winning over interesting ones by slim margins. Also, the implementations of the mobs were really basic, with little to no effort being put into it.
Previously, people could vote for a new mob each year. It was constantly made fun of because either the mobs people could vote for were so tepid they didn't care or they were all so interesting people were annoyed they couldn't all be added. Couple this with people claiming that the "worst" option was picked after each vote, and that the mob vote replaced what used to be a yearly "biome vote" (which was like the mob vote, but significantly bigger in scale and much more liked by the community), and the mob vote was never especially popular (though it did help the community feel engaged with the game to a greater degree).
A mob, for those unfamiliar, is another word for a monster or (typically hostile) NPC in a game.
In Minecraft, it just refers to any non-human living creature.
A Mob is a Mobile OBject!