Twitch introduced this week that an upcoming change will permit streamers to dam banned customers from tuning into their streams. “You possibly can select to have your banned chatters not have the ability to watch the stream,” Senior Product Supervisor Trevor Fisher revealed on Twitch’s Patch Notes podcast (via TechCrunch), stressing that the function gained’t be enabled by default. The brand new blocking function will roll out within the subsequent few weeks.
“The way in which that it’s going to work is when you ban someone they usually’re at the moment watching, then the stream playback will probably be interrupted for them in order that they instantly lose the flexibility to view the stream,” he defined. “After which when you go offline, you stream once more, they gained’t have the ability to watch your subsequent streams both till you select to un-ban them.” He stated it might have the identical impact no matter whether or not the streamer or a moderator bans somebody: That individual can’t watch your streams till they’re unblocked.
One vital limitation to the brand new function is that it solely applies to logged-in customers: Anybody viewing a stream whereas logged out of their account can nonetheless watch it. Twitch isn’t blocking IP addresses (no less than for now), which leaves room for the noteworthy exception.
Fisher careworn that that is an incremental change that solely partially addresses among the platform’s moderation issues, together with a number of ladies accusing Twitch streamers of sexual abuse and misconduct. Different strikes to deal with the problem have included including a one-button anti-harassment tool, enhancing its reporting and appeals process, rewriting its community policies and taking a stronger stance against deepfakes. “We all know that that is an space the place folks need us to do extra, and it’s simply been delivery off one a part of the issue at a time,” Fisher stated.
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