I'm not sure if you watch the whole video, is that the hate raiders have found so many loopholes and ways around those features, that it's ridiculous. That's the point they're trying to make. Even with all those features, they might as well not be doing anything. And the fact that Twitch rather keep their hands clean and not do anything cuz they're counting their money tree.
I didn't hear any mention on locking down chat's with sub only modes and such. But i might have missed it as I'm trying to watch and work at the same time.
Please see the video whenever you can. You don't have to rush it. The victims of what's happening are actually speaking in the video and it's not just Jim reading them off.
Coming out has probably eased a lot of their depression and surrounding issues. It is a lot easier to adopt healthier habits when you are in a good place mentally and emotionally. It's really great to see.
A lot of people do like to argue that "Well Twitch is owned by Amazon" But they never realize the cost of running something like Twitch. The sheer server banwith they have to manage, the internal hardware tech people they have to have (like 24/7). It's very expensive.
The difference is that Twitch is a live chat system. While those other media platforms are static content. It's an entirely different ball game when it comes to policing live chat's like that.
That's fair, but I feel like if you a public figure you shouldn't be immune to criticism. Obviously, you can't yell fire in a crowded theater. So you can't swat someone, but being racist, and transphobic as much as I despise those people are generally fair game, and Twitch is a social media, and social media is basically the new public square. Free speech is free speech. Now if one person is spamming the chat that is grounds for free speech harassment, but generally a person saying a one-off comment said every few minutes a half an hour is fair game.
Someone wrote a Python script that spelled out the word 'jogger' but it substituted similar letters for each character (e.g. zero for o, accented characters) and ran every combination of possible spellings using substitute characters. There's almost 23 million variations of just that word.
If Amazon can't afford it, then why bother buying Twitch in the first place? They can afford it, they just don't want to put money towards it. If Jeff bezos can afford a flight to space, they can afford some fucking bandwidth! You can throw out all the fancy terms and whatever, but it can do it It is all crap. They're just too busy seeing dollar signs to bother caring at all.
I'm not saying be immune to it. I'm saying handle it. Look all performers get hecklers, which is really what this is at the end of the day. It's heckling, it's trolling, and it happens because people get a rise out of the person they do it to. It can be hard to deal with or hear sometimes, nobody likes to get insulted or whatever. But if you are going to have a public facing job, you have to be able to withstand this stuff.
Okay Sub only mode for your chat then. Emote only mode. Slow mode. Literally lock your chat down for a little while, until the botting moves on. It fucks with the real people in your chat for a while, but it's better than letting the bots sperg out on you, and it is temporary.
Because it's a matter of return on investment. Every company has a limit to what they'll invest in anything. Why do you think EA buys studios only to close them? They buy a studio and expect a return on investment, if that studio doesn't return that investment they close it. End of story. They don't care about fault, or whatever. It is simply a numbers game. Make the numbers or close down.
Realistically, if you heckled like this in a live show you would at a minimum be kicked out, and probably quite roughly; if you openly racially abused someone (which isn't heckling) at a gig in the UK you're likely to be looking at reporting to the nearest police station either because you've been arrested or because you need to report the guy who beat the shit out of you.
Isn't that what banning is? And concerts don't kick people out because there are too many people. But you are right, there is at least some filter to people's mounth's when it's an in-person event because you can't hide behind the keyboard. Again it's a matter of the right hammer for the job. If there are too many bots to ban, Emote only chat, or Sub only.
They don't, but a stream with 50-150 viewers can already have a lively discussion that you are removing, and thus playing along with the haters.
Banning is just a very low-cost thing that's easy to circumvent though so it's not the same as being kicked out and losing your ticket price (and concerts absolutely will kick people out, but usually the crowd will deal with it since they're actually there to enjoy the show). Punishment-based approaches are hard to implement online, so Twitch needs to develop tools to help streamers. An obvious one would be implementing something like the Python script I mentioned, so the streamer just needs to enter the simple version of the word they want banned, then Twitch handle banning all variants.
