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Twitch vs Speedrun Community Drama (update: Twitch officially responds)
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Red Chocobo
Banned
Nah, not much furry drama. People are mainly mad at the guy for his abusive actions as an administrator, not because the guy is a furry.
Higgins113
Banned
http://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/1r2f1k/rip_in_peace_werster/cdj10be
Make sure not to upvote it too fast or it might get deleted!
equippedwithtowel
Member
Must have missed that part.
If
1: The post they are upvoting complies with the rules/TOS
2: They aren't using multiple accounts per person
What is wrong with new users from 4chan voting on a topic? Seems like a really unnecessarily exclusionary policy.
I'm sorry but this sounds like bullshit to me. I went to itmejp subreddit to check some D&D podcast info and it has warnings like this with legitimate comments being deleted.
It's actually a bit more complex.
A few months ago on reddit, on another subreddit, it was found out that one of the moderators was using votebots to make sure that only his websites were viewed so that he could get ad revenue. Ever since, he has been banned along with the website on reddit so there has been a lot of conspiracies going on about the subreddit mods and a lot of hostility.
Which led to another subreddit getting banned because some idiots from pc master race thought it would be a good idea to post the personal info from one of the mods and have his house raided by a SWAT member
I was being facetious
A few people have defended horror saying he's a good person. Which, I personally am not concerned with. I don't think the guy should be employed (he is paid by Twitch atm) or work for Twitch in any kind of a customer facing role.QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
I can show you what the emote code means in pm if you'd like, though don't get fired in the process
It's a reference to his glowing blue dick oh and I guess his tongue glows too ya.
Making a thread and linking it on IRC is not allowed ?
Hahahahah, great community you got there guys.
Reddit markets itself as an open community and actively allows burner accounts. These subreddits want to be closed communities like NeoGAF (everyone should want to be NeoGAF) but that isn't what Reddit was about. The supposed "Front page of the Internet" is a corrupt and unethical place. Up votes but only when we allow them.
I was being facetious
Same, if you cannot be responsible with the powers given to you, you can be seen as the nicest guy in the world, but you're a dictator who uses his power to get the people to fear you and say nice things.
Mushroomer25
Member
This would be a great time for YouTube to make their streaming option available to all users. Just swoop in, get some new loyal users out of controversy, and rake in the cash.
Official response up on reddit.com:
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1r64e8/apology_official_twitch_response_to_controversy/
optimizeprime is Emmett Shear, Twitch CEO
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1r64e8/apology_official_twitch_response_to_controversy/
optimizeprime is Emmett Shear, Twitch CEO
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1r64e8/apology_official_twitch_response_to_controversy/
Horror steps down from public moderating. Pitchfork works
Horror steps down from public moderating. Pitchfork works
The Tofunator
Member
Well I'll probably have to check that when I get back from classes, but fire away.I can show you what the emote code means in pm if you'd like, though don't get fired in the process
It's a reference to his glowing blue dick oh and I guess his tongue glows too ya.
phantomspiker
Member
Good response to all this I think.
I don't know if linking something to friends is considered "vote cheating" but forestL did say in a later post that some of the votes were coming from multiple new accounts created on the same IP address.
Was just coming to post this. Give it a read as it should clear up a number of our stances. I hopeful that this entire incident will allow us to systematically revaluate the way moderation on the site is handled and communicated. It's most certainly been an eye opening moment for many, for good and for bad.
Thank you Twitch for finally putting a stop to this.
Something that needs to come out of all this is a change in the system for Banning channels, either by not allowing admins to ban channels of people that have "insulted" them, or implementing a review process where another admin aside from the offended one has to approve a channel ban.
Livelihood? Dude, you make it sound like the dude is inches from poverty. Doesn't he live with family? His circumstance is not life or death. It's why he even found the whole ordeal to be funny.
Good job by Twitch. I think this is completely fair.
Very solid and serious response that doesn't downplay community concerns. Props.
Hey, you don't need to tell us what you're doing at the moment, guy. #NightLight
I'm glad they finally got this out. Ultimately this whole event will be good for Twitch because now they can mature from this.
dave is ok
aztek is ok
I hope Horror's new job is mopping the floors.
Yeah, I don't like that just because someone chooses to force their lifestyle out into the open, that it needs to be accepted and embraced.
There are a lot of things that people should just keep to themselves.
I don't really have anything against them, because it's not harming anyone, but really, I just can't understand why one would choose to expose that detail of their lives into the public.
It feels wrong to yell out to the world "I'm a sexual deviant! Accept me!". Keep that shit in your bedroom. You can do whatever you want, I just don't want to know about it.
Best possible response.
Honestly, it's a shame it even had to get to this point, this fiasco was totally avoidable.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
Well, they acknowledged that the behavior of part of their staff (Horror) and their admins has been very unprofesional and they failed to provide the necessary training when you need to face and deal with your customers on a big company.
Good Job, better late than never.
Nice reply, props to Twitch.
Solid response.
The Blackrose
Member
Anyone expecting Horror's head on a pike was bound for disappointment.
However, kudos to Emmett Shear for the response. The only thing I didn't see touched upon but could have been was issues relating to the @TwitchTVSupport twitter account.
However, kudos to Emmett Shear for the response. The only thing I didn't see touched upon but could have been was issues relating to the @TwitchTVSupport twitter account.
Tomat pls
Great response from Twitch. You can lay blame in many places for this incident but I think Twitch are taking most of the blame themselves, they are admitting the way he community is set up isn't perfect and they will try and fix it.
I am glad they didn't indulge in too much outrage about jokes and comments that possibly overstepped he bounds because much of twitch is the unfiltered community that streamers have plugged into has been a massive part of their growth. A day to get the correct response is welcome and these kind of problems were bound to happen as the service grows.
I am glad they didn't indulge in too much outrage about jokes and comments that possibly overstepped he bounds because much of twitch is the unfiltered community that streamers have plugged into has been a massive part of their growth. A day to get the correct response is welcome and these kind of problems were bound to happen as the service grows.
Fotheringay
Member
About as good a response as one could hope for at this point. Hopefully moving forward they'll be more even-handed about emotes, and proactive when situations like this arise.
Pretty sure that is a parody account.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
Yep, but seeing it's recent tweets I feel he/they received a quick training class on Social Media Manager
Higgins113
Banned
Great response from twitch
Velcro Fly
Member
They had to do something because this was embarrassing.
He did not step down
"Horror has voluntarily stepped back from public facing moderation work at Twitch, as right now pretty much every moderation issue will be tainted by this episode."
This means that he can simply come back when things die down.
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