Twitch creates a "safety council" to help it advise on various policy issues

https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/14/21258673/twitch-safety-advisory-council-moderation-online-toxicity

Today, Twitch is announcing the formation of its new Safety Advisory Council, a group made up of streamers, academics, and nonprofit leaders that will advise the company on online safety issues. The council will help Twitch draft new policies and update old ones, develop new products for safety and moderation, protect the interests of marginalized people, and identify new, toxic trends emerging from the platform.

On the streamer side, the group is comprised of Twitch partners who have been using the site full-time for years; they’ve brought on CohhCarnage, Cupahnoodle, FerociouslySteph, and Zizaran, who are some of the site’s more prominent (and distinct) personalities. The academics are Sameer Hinduja and T.L. Taylor, who are experts in cyberbullying and internet / game studies, respectively. Rounding out the team are Alex Holmes, the deputy CEO of The Diana Award, and Emma Llansó, the director of the Center for Democracy & Technology’s Free Expression Project.

What’s most interesting about these people is, as a group, they’re experts in Twitch and experts in online moderation, which Twitch has struggled with for a while. Perhaps most notable is Zizaran, who, in a press release, says he’s looking forward to helping Twitch clarify its rules about bans and suspensions. The seeming inconsistency of moderation enforcement on the platform has led to a number of clarifications of the Twitch TOS, and a separate council that’s tasked with making things clearer for streamers is a very smart way to show that the company is being proactive about its enforcement actions.

The ambiguity around Twitch’s rules has led to some interesting behavior from streamers who find themselves running afoul of them; the latest example was the prominent streamer Natalia “Alinity” Mogollon giving herself a three-day suspension after she accidentally showed her nipple on a stream. (Mogollon has been the center of a few rules controversies herself.)

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One of the council members

Steph has been a full time streamer since her debut playing competitive collegiate Heroes of the Storm in 2016. She was one of the first transgender streamers to ever be partnered on Twitch, and the first to bring a transgender pride flag emote to the platform. Her fight for inclusivity includes creating a competitive team composed entirely of marginalized gamers, and vehemently opposing non inclusive mechanics such as voice chat.

https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2020/05/14/introducing-the-twitch-safety-advisory-council/

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[haurchefant]

So why are they doing this exactly? If they already have a deathgrip on streaming, why introduce the mentally ill and grifters to a safety council?

Because they think Twitch is a license to print money. It's important to understand that communists don't understand how profit generators work. They don't understand that it's possible to crash a million dollar enterprise. They don't see this kind of thing as a "job," they see it as something that they're entitled to. They think that Twitch's money is the same thing as having their daddy pay their rent for them. They've been handed everything else in their lives, they're spoiled brats. Most of these people probably do have legitimate mental issues but that only caused the people around them to spoil them even harder.

As far as they're concerned Twitch is just "money machine goes brrrrr." Twitch survived Ninja leaving the platform and the rest of their competitors, including the one being given Microsoft money, haven't been able to touch them or build up an audience either. DLive crashed and burned since Youtube gave PDP a sweet contract which means there's no reason to go to the platform unless you like listening to Zlisters. I've also heard that the other websites have some major technical issues as well.

However this:

vehemently opposing non inclusive mechanics such as voice chat

indicates to me that this endeavor is about as serious as any of Twitch's other moves which is to say not at all. VC isn't going anywhere and one mentally ill moron who is definitely simping for some poor woman that he's "in lesbians with" won't be able to do anything about it.

We'll see how it goes. Twitch might survive it and these people will remain irrelevant while Alinity gets her dog to fuck her on camera.

 

[Too Many Catgirls]

I am okay with the Danger Hairs being on this so-called council. But they need to balance it with a few Nazis and Klansmen for good measure.

In fact they should televise those meetings. Might be a good revenue stream.

 

[#zzz]

We'll see how it goes. Twitch might survive it and these people will remain irrelevant while Alinity gets her dog to fuck her on camera.

I wonder if this is going to turn into some weird slippery slope where one person is banned for saying Trump on stream, and so you switch to another and theres people in fursuits humping each other, and people have been reporting it for hours.

 

[tehpope]

Twitch will never burn to the ground. Daddy Bezos will keep it afloat. Millions to him are like pennies to us.

 

[MrJokerRager]

Twitch will never burn to the ground. Daddy Bezos will keep it afloat. Millions to him are like pennies to us.

Bezos, Bloomberg, Zuckerberg, the cunt in charge of Twitter and assholes in charge of Google are completing for the worst elitist prick of the year.

Saint Elon must be happy all these fucks exist to make him look good.

 

[BlueCandle]

I love how their only solution to preventing people from being harassed over voicechat for being a gurlgamer or whatever is to remove it entirely. Its like instead of going to war with the nazis for making pizzas for the jews they instead just gave everyone eyemasks so they couldn't see it happen.

 

[Tanner Glass]

Steph has been a full time streamer since her debut playing competitive collegiate Heroes of the Storm in 2016. She was one of the first transgender streamers to ever be partnered on Twitch, and the first to bring a transgender pride flag emote to the platform. Her fight for inclusivity includes creating a competitive team composed entirely of marginalized gamers, and vehemently opposing non inclusive mechanics such as voice chat.

A competitive team that was never really competitive, never got sponsored, and never won anything even in a dying game.

Formed (roughly) May 9th, 2018 and disbanded August 17th, 2018 - the "team" only existed for like three months. It was supposed to be "girls" team but wouldn't you know it, they had a lot of men with women's names join on. They played in Open Cup against a fair amount of teams that weren't really teams but would get flattened anytime they encountered a "real" team and never made it to anything that would be regarded as a non-amatuer level.

So basically he played on his own "women's" vanity team for 3 months and then gave up and somehow that still counts.

 

[XYZpdq]

It'll be funny when Lucha Libre AAA live on twitch still has all the buckets of broken glass, box cutter stabbings, and stapling of people that it always does while some gamer gets popped for for mentioning "Nog" from Deep Space Nine.

 

[⋖ cørdion ⋗]

A competitive team that was never really competitive, never got sponsored, and never won anything even in a dying game.

Formed (roughly) May 9th, 2018 and disbanded August 17th, 2018 - the "team" only existed for like three months. It was supposed to be "girls" team but wouldn't you know it, they had a lot of men with women's names join on. They played in Open Cup against a fair amount of teams that weren't really teams but would get flattened anytime they encountered a "real" team and never made it to anything that would be regarded as a non-amatuer level.

So basically he played on his own "women's" vanity team for 3 months and then gave up and somehow that still counts.

I can only imagine the players thinking it's a great marketing stunt, only to realize they're losing because they are unable to just yell "he's right there!"

 

[moocow]

Why do these fucking tranny freaks feel the need to parade themselves in front of the world? You'd think they'd want to hide their freakish nature. Fucking hell.

Yeah I think they've all missed the memo that the goal of transsexuals is to become the other sex and become indistinguishable from the "real thing" to the average eye. Instead they've all just gone the "attention whoring pride parade goer" route because it's apparently more gratifying.

ETA:

I love how their only solution to preventing people from being harassed over voicechat for being a gurlgamer or whatever is to remove it entirely.

They're not being "harassed." They just want it removed because they can't larp as women when there's voice chat -- people instantly clock them as male on voip so it ruins the illusion for them.

 

[Quantum Diabetes]

If they ever do "Deuce Bigelow 3" this Steph creature could be one of the trannies Deuce is forced to date and almost fuck for plot reasons.

 

[Maggots on a Train v2]

>The academics are Sameer Hinduja and T.L. Taylor, who are experts in cyberbullying and internet / game studies, respectively.
The cereal boxes that let these jokers invent their own degrees should lose their accreditation. Imagine issuing an "internet / games studies" degree through your humanities department.

 

[Dubu Kimchi]

>The academics are Sameer Hinduja and T.L. Taylor, who are experts in cyberbullying and internet / game studies, respectively.
The cereal boxes that let these jokers invent their own degrees should lose their accreditation. Imagine issuing an "internet / games studies" degree through your humanities department.

Taylor is a tenured professor at MIT (in Creative Writing and Media studies) and did her PhD at Brandeis University in sociology.

Hinduja is a professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida Atlantic University and did her PhD at Michigan State University.

At the very least these aren't Rhys level of bullshit artists.

 

[King Daddy Telomerase]

I'd love for Twitch to die a painful death, so keep doing this stupid whatever these people are.

 

[Fagnacious D]

Memeology 101 reports on this. In which there is a clip where the tranny calls most gamers white supremacists.

 

[Safir]

vehemently opposing non inclusive mechanics such as voice chat

Just a personal anecdote (and some power-leveling). Back in WoW's Burning Crusade days, I was in a raiding guild and one of our priests was deaf.

"Non-inclusive" means troons can't pretend they're women. Nothing to do with the deaf or mute people.

 

[Klaptrap]

I know this thread isn't specifically about him, his stream, ect. Still. His transbian lover's teeth have left bite marks on my psyche.

 

[Trashfire Garbagefuck]

Memeology 101 reports on this. In which there is a clip where the tranny calls most gamers white supremacists.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=XLPqiicRg5g

that's not even the worst part. it's a transwoman otherkin who has some kind of orgasm from having her head scratched like a deer. she prances around in her backyard like a deer as a "ritual". this is beyond parody.

 

[Puddleduck]

Should take a look at some of the reddit comments.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LivestreamFail/comments/gjuut6/twitch_staff_btw/

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lol people thought he was meant to be mong instead of an animal

 

[Zero0]

I know this thread isn't specifically about him, his stream, ect. Still. His transbian lover's teeth have left bite marks on my psyche.

Wait is the other person trans too?