Twitch is working to provide more transparency about why and how it implements its regulations.
On Monday, the firm announced that it will include Enforcement Notes, which it described as “additional clarifications and examples within the Community Guidelines designed to make our rules easier to follow.”
The notes follow (and complement) the company’s recent vow to do a better job of explaining why rule-breakers’ accounts were suspended.
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The business says Enforcement Notes will explain how its laws apply to the trends you notice on the platform.
For example, if a new hot subject breaches one of Twitch’s standards, the platform will issue a disclaimer stating which behaviours are and are not prohibited. It will also issue new notes in response to data spikes, major community confusion, or current topics on social media.
Twitch has already included some enforcement notes on its community guidelines safety page. For example, one note states that selling acts that could cause harm in exchange for money (such as shooting shots for subscriptions) is prohibited by the “Self-destructive behaviour” guideline.
Furthermore, it notes under “Sexual content” that the platform does not allow direct links to websites that predominantly provide personal information. Under “Impersonation,” it notes that if someone else is impersonating you, you can report the impersonating stream to Twitch even if it does not qualify for DMCA removal.
Twitch claims its enforcement notes will not replace any of its current ways of contact with users, such as blog posts or tweets. Instead, the business refers to the notes as “a source of truth for all policy and enforcement updates.”
Right now, the best approach to learning about Enforcement Notes is to conduct a browser page search on the community guidelines website.
Twitch, on the other hand, plans to introduce a visual icon to indicate new ones in the future. It is also developing a built-in search tool to make notes easier to find without using Cmd-F or Ctrl-F.
