Look, all media should be like a Boris Vallejo painting. If it's not, especially if there's a black or the women are a bit too wordy, it's literal world-ending propaganda.
@sippio: The problem is when those 12 year olds grow up into 22 year olds, then to 32 year olds and so on, and still behave like that. To them, that is what communication online is, that it's normal to use every slur under the sun all the time at everyone. Not all of them, of course, there are those who grow out of it, but I'd hope they also realize that we should get past the Xbox Live stuff as a whole and not just shrug and say it's an integral part to online gaming. And yes, mute buttons and even being able to toggle text chat off is great, but it's a shame you want to do that by default for every game because of shitheads.
But comparing toxic voice or text chat behaviour to organized efforts to harass streamers on a large scale, especially already marginalized ones is comparing apples to oranges.
@Marikhen: While being absolutely skeptical of companies' motivations is very healthy, in this case, consider the alternative: Twitch continuing to do nothing and leaving it to creators to attempt to vainly moderate the flood, would essentially assent that the concept of a hate raid, whether bot assisted or not, is a part of the engagement. It would go from being a thing that unfortunately happens to, I don't know, "yeah so what, deal with it snowflake" that people who still use "virtue signaling" as a criticism against anything social justice adjacent seem to want the internet to be.
The gain is a net positive however, regardless of what Twitch's motives are. Outright suing hate raiders sets a strong deterrent (if the case goes anywhere) and makes Twitch, and indeed the wider online community, just that bit better a place to be for everyone
@Blk_Mage_Ctype: "Virtue signaling!" cry those who cannot fathom that there are people who support the oppressed, abused, or othered without it directly benefitting them. Selflessness is beyond them.
@edargnwod: True enough. These devs don't make games for people to buy and play, they just need Epic to dole out their projected sales money. Who cares about selling it then!
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