Twitch CEO Dan Clancy has revealed plans to further combat harassment on the streaming platform, promising that harsher penalties are coming to offenders.
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Clancyrevealedthat multiple updates will be coming to Twitch later this year after better understanding how harassment is experienced on the site.
“This year, we’ll roll out updates to our Community Guidelines, including clearer, updated harm definitions, and more severe penalties for some types of harassment,” he said.
“We’re also building tools to better identify harassment across our service, including changes that would block more harassment before it shows up in your chat,” Clancy added.
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Furthermore, the Twitch CEO indicated that suspensions could be getting a bit of an overhaul, explaining that the team often gets questions about their length and how the results differ based on individual violations.
“We want to ensure that when someone breaks our Community Guidelines, the suspensions we issue match the severity and seriousness of the harm,” he said.
“We also recognize that some suspensions shouldn’t stick around forever, like violations of our lower-severity policies, which cover non-malicious or accidental behaviors that aren’t likely to result in serious physical or emotional harm.”
Clancy gave the example of a user having a drug-related term in theirusernameas an offense that shouldn’t result in a permaban.
Michael Gwilliam is Dexerto’s Deputy Entertainment Editor in the US. He expertly covers trending stories across Twitch, Kick, YouTube, TikTok, as well as Overwatch, GTA, and Smash Bros. You can contact him at: michael.gwilliam@dexerto.com
