Ideally that shouldn’t do much. If you report and there’s no offensive content, Twitch is unlikely to ban.

That’s certainly one of the deeper problems. When half your users are using your platform as intended, and the other half are just trying to use it to sabotage and harass them, the system can’t serve both parties equally.

Thanks for the tip, I was growing kind of suspicious.

Sadly, probably true. 😑

It’s not so much a lack of tools, as the tools are lacking. Because sure, you can ban somebody from chat... But if they really want in, they can come back. They can make a theoretically infinite number of burner accounts, and you can ban all those, too. But at some point you just have to say “Well fuck, this isn’t…

Yeah, it absolutely needs to change. Twitch acts like “anybody can do it” but expect you to basically make it a full-time job if you want to “succeed” as a streamer, and it can all be taken away without explanation or recourse, through no fault of your own. It’s completely insane to the point that it really should be…

For example, if someone started calling a streamer, “a big red Elliot Page,” people can more-or-less infer that something like that is meant to be harassment

They’re definitely “trying” with the tags...though I still think the solution is to just let users make their own, YouTube style, and let the communities themselves naturally arrive at what the useful ones are. (Typos notwithstanding. 😏)

I long for the day when the public understanding of bigotry has advanced enough that these social media hubs will stop pretending that you can’t teach a bot to ban bigots. Will you ban Republicans? Yeah, a lot of them, but that’s a problem for Republicans to figure out, isn’t it?

Well, the problem is two-fold; Part of it is that the provided moderation tools are insufficient for permanently dealing with problem users and bots. (If somebody is determined to fuck with you, it’s easy enough to just flood a channel with new accounts faster than you can ban them from it. To say nothing of…

Plus if the tag were ‘African American’ it wouldn’t be inclusive of Black people everywhere else in the world, right? Or is that an even more nuanced identity issue? 🤔

First of all, that’s awesome and hilarious! (Taika Waititi really hit one out of the park with that episode!)

*sigh* I’ll just repost what I said EIGHT MONTHS AGO on another Kotaku article about Twitch. [Additional emphasis added to repost.]

From what I’ve seen of the comparisons to the older sprites, the new [sprites] largely reserve black for an outline, so there’s less distinction between parts of the sprite.

Last I checked, ‘the youths’ also like things which don’t look like garbage. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

And the day they do that, is the day that I never touch an Overwatch game again.

Yeah, the contrast is just fucked.  It looks like a smudge.

Here they go again fucking up the text like they did last time and with the Chrono Trigger remaster! JUST MAKE IT A PIXEL FONT, YOU LUDICROUS CHUCKLEFUCKS!

I was wondering how long it’d be before somebody called out that literal and figurative gem. 😏

Just 200mbps down though? I would’ve thought you’d get more with FiOS... 🤔