The days of Twitch mysteriously suspending popular streamers are coming to an end. Amazon’s streaming platform announced yesterday that it is now actually telling streamers who are temporarily banned why they were being penalized. It only took 10 years folks.
“Starting today, enforcement notifications sent to banned users will include the name of the content and the date of the violation to ensure they have more clarity on what content will be taken action against,” Twitch Support wrote on Twitter. Based on an example screenshot, these new explanations will include what the streamer did who violated the Twitch Terms of Service or Community Guidelines, and what stream it happened on.
Temporary Twitch bans are one of the Main sources of drama and intrigue on the social media platform. When someone with hundreds of thousands of subscribers is randomly closed, people immediately start speculating about it, and because Twitch has been so vague in the past, the streamers in question rarely have anything clear to say to their audience.
March, Minecraft Streamer George “GeorgeNotFound” Davidson has been banned for “harassment via username” then quickly banned and then banned again for a short time. In June, Twitch provocateur Amouranth and Model indiefoxxlive were temporarily suspended after Seductive slurping of microphones and licking of human plastic ears. There’s a whole long section in Twitch’s Community Guidelines about sexual content, but it is always impossible to predict exactly where the company will draw the line. In theory at least, these new explanations will make it a little clearer when and why streamers are sanctioned.
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It’s also long overdue. Twitch was founded back in 2011 and was acquired by Amazon for nearly $ 1 billion in 2014. It’s big business, but only because of the content being provided by others. It’s the least Twitch can do in telling the developers why they have occasionally been banned from a defacto job, although it’s still far from what many users ideally want. Even now, Twitch Support’s tweet announcing the prohibitions is littered with complaints about the lack of transparency and communication around things like the appeal process.
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