Clock me if I missed it in the thread.
For anyone still salty about the "combined chat" rule with the new Twitch simulcasting policy, the Twitch CEO was just on an interview with a guy by the name of Harris Heller, and he offered a lot of clarification.
1 hour 28 minute mark if the timestamp doesn't work, but I'll give some tl;dr -- the big one is "no combined chat" isn't
actually the rule:
- "There's two reasons why we say the rule is no combined chats"
- First gives some bullshit PR answer (and later gets called out as such by Harris) about "sense of community" and streamers should "recognize names" on Twitch and you never "recognize names" on YouTube, TikTok, Kick, etc.
- Then gives the real answer, Twitch can keep track of your moderation efforts ON TWITCH in case chat starts breaking TOS. If you can someone in Twitch chat for TOS purposes, they WILL go to your YouTube/Kick/Rumble chat and start calling the streamer and all the chat Yamanbafaggots in an attempt to get the streamer banned. If you get TOS-chat-raided on Twitch, Twitch can see the efforts you're taking to curb that and can take that into account when the inevitable reports of your streams come in. If you get Twitch-TOS-chat-raided on Kick, Twitch can't see and verify shit as far as moderation efforts, and streamers WILL argue "Well I'm working very hard on my kick chat to make sure it fits Twitch TOS, but sometimes a slur slips thru I'm sorry" and a whole bunch of them will be fucking lying. So they implemented the rule as a CMOA so Twitch Staff can say "Well, a whole bunch of his chat was calling people Yamanbafaggots, and he was banning it on Twitch...but we can't tell if he was banning it on Kick...well we can just say that he shouldn't be combining chats."
- Very specifically answered, they will not be banning streamers for the mere act of combining chats.
- Worth noting, the stream was simulcasted to Twitch, YouTube, and Kick, and there was a combined chat overlay for Twitch and YouTube, but very notably NOT kick.