{"id":125162,"date":"2022-05-25T09:21:58","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T07:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=125162"},"modified":"2022-05-25T09:21:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T07:21:58","slug":"twitch-considers-change-to-its-transparency-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/125162-twitch-considers-change-to-its-transparency-policy","title":{"rendered":"Twitch considers change to its transparency policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to the Washington Post<\/a>,<\/strong> Twitch is considering informing banned streamers of the reason for their bans in the form of a notification email which may even include clips of the infraction.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a number-one ask from our community,” said Twitch vice president of trust and safety Angela Hession.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re looking at how we can attach more details for people to understand [the ban] and specifics and clarity will be given when the company figures out how it wants to implement this feature,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

At present, Twitch\u2019s policy does not require the company to give any comment on streamer bans, and this extends to the streamer themselves, who may never know what they did exactly to warrant the ban.<\/p>\n

A well-known streamer named Dr Disrespect is an example of this, as he got banned from Twitch in June 2020.<\/p>\n

There was plenty of speculation as to the reasons for his ban, but it is still unknown why exactly the streamer was handed the permanent ban from the platform.<\/p>\n

How it works<\/h3>\n

While Hession stated that \u201cspecifics and clarity\u201d will follow soon, the basics of the company\u2019s transparency changes are relatively straightforward.<\/p>\n

Twitch will disclose the specifics of the ban, including the evidence, to the streamer in question.<\/p>\n

It is then up to the streamer whether to make those details public or not.<\/p>\n

This notification policy consideration seems to be long overdue, and it\u2019s puzzling as to why this change hasn\u2019t come sooner.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Twitch has recently added an “appeals portal<\/a><\/strong>\u201d which gives users the option of challenging any given ban.<\/p>\n

This is an important feature for many, especially for those that rely on the company for their income.<\/p>\n

While this is good news for many streamers, the appeal portal doesn\u2019t seem to improve your odds of overturning a ban.<\/p>\n

According to the global vice president of safety operations Rob Lewington, less than 1% of appeals are successful.<\/p>\n

He says that this is because Twitch regularly double-checked decisions to make sure they aligned with the platform\u2019s guidelines.<\/p>\n

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Read: New Destroy All Humans game leaked by Xbox Store<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A long-overdue change in policy that will benefit streamers is hopefully coming soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"featured_media":125163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[26217,19067,7579],"class_list":["post-125162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-policy-change","tag-streamer","tag-twitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}