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Originally Posted by ReliableSource
Mass censorship is pretty standard during large events hosted by Twitch. It can't be too bad...
What do you mean when you say hosted by Twitch? If you're referring to the front page feature, that doesn't mean that Twitch staff get involved with moderating. Doug Polk, Tonka, Nanonoko, etc. get featured on the front page fairly often and they moderate their own channels as they see fit.
Mass censorship is not standard from what I've seen, but maybe I haven't watched enough. I have tuned in for TI5, TI6, some Hearthstone and CS:GO majors, and never noticed any heavy-handed moderation. In fact, they were all pretty much free for alls. Sometimes this included jokes at the broadcaster's expense, but for the most part it's lighthearted fun.
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Originally Posted by ReliableSource
How is it even possible to ban so quick? Does twitch have its own banning dream machine?
You can configure bots like Nightbot to automatically ban people who say blacklisted words. The only times I've ever seen this used was Pokernight in America blacklisting variations of "motor boat" and Pokerstars banning the Bad Reg emote yesterday.
At one point Pokerstars prohibited the use of TEXT, so the chat became pure emote spam. I have never seen that before. Even then, they continued banning people for using emotes to mock Jason when he made questionable plays. Came off as very thin skinned and anti-fun in my opinion.