On the third day of TwitchCon 2022 San Diego, the livestreaming platform hosted a Patch Notes Live event. It featured the company's Chief Monetization Officer Mike Minton, Head of Product and Safety Officer Alison Huffman, and Chief Product Officer Tom Verrilli.
Patch Notes Live host and Twitch's Lead Community Producer, Zachary Ryan, wanted to know Alison Huffman's take on streamer ban consistency on the platform.
He enquired about how Twitch manages streamer bans and why they issue one content creator a longer ban than another. Alison Huffman "busted the myth" and said:
At the 02:46 minute mark of the October 9 broadcast, Zachary Ryan put forward a question from the streaming community about how the platform issues suspension to content creators. He also asked if the platform applied the "rules unfairly":
Alison Huffman "busted the myth" by stating that the platform applies the rules very consistently and uses data that the community can't see. She further explained:
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Huffman emphasized that the rules for suspending content creators on the platform are very consistent, and that it "may look different" to the streaming community:
The Head of Product and Safety Officer added that she couldn't explain the workings of the backend framework, since "people would exploit" it:
The TwitchCon 2022 clip was shared to the r/LivestreamFail subreddit and the conversation thread attracted more than 350 fan reactions. One Redditor was surprised to see the platform's executive use the phrase "myth busted":
Another Redditor stated that the things mentioned in the clip were "all a big joke":
Here are some more relevant fan reactions:
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