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Toxicity in the gaming community seems to be hitting an all time high, superseding the traditional “trash talk” and moving into more hateful and harmful patterns. With several high profile ...
xQc revealed a new theory on how Twitch enforces its bans while streamer Asmongold accused the platform of not applying its ToS “fairly.” ...
Twitch Says It Will Ban Users for Harassment That Occurs Offsite: Violence, extremism, terrorism, sexual misconduct and affiliation to a hate group could result in a permanent ban.
Twitch has rolled out a number of changes to its violation enforcement system. The biggest change is that now infractions will disappear from an account “after a set amount of time.” This is ...
Twitch will now ban users who harass members of its community — even when that harassment takes place off Twitch. The streaming platform announced a major expansion of its off-service misconduct ...
I think Twitch as a platform is very uniquely responsive to community feedback, at least from what I’ve seen in other platforms I’ve covered. Yeah, and like I said, sometimes it’s a problem ...
Twitch has had an ongoing problem with inconsistent moderation. Back in June, Dr Disrespect — real name Herschel “Guy” Beahm — did his first IRL stream live from a bathroom at E3, the ...
Game streaming website Twitch will now punish users who have used other platforms as a way to direct harassment at fellow Twitch users. Skip to main content Menu ...
Twitch started enforcing its off-service conduct policy in April 2021. At the time, it said it would respond to serious incidents that "pose a substantial safety risk to the Twitch community" even ...
According to the Twitch 2024 community recap, viewers watched 20.35 billion hours on the live-streaming service. A forthcoming book explains why.