Twitch has announced a significant update to its suspensions policy, moving away from the previous all-or-nothing approach. The platform will now implement two distinct suspension types: streaming suspensions and chatting suspensions. Under the new system, if a user breaches Twitch’s Community Guidelines during a livestream, they will face a suspension from going live, with chat on their channel temporarily disabled. Despite this, users can still engage with other streams, access their user dashboard, and view their existing clips and videos. For violations in chat, individuals will receive a suspension solely from chat, retaining the ability to stream their content and watch other creators. Twitch emphasized that severe violations will result in both chatting and streaming suspensions concurrently to mitigate further harm to the community. The most serious infractions will continue to lead to indefinite suspensions and a complete loss of access to the platform.
Source: TechCrunch