Do anything to combat Phishing Attempt Streams
No safety or removal of phishing streams has occurred for communities, at all. Phishing streams are constantly online, or brought back online minutes after a moderator removes them.
Designate community or game-level moderators that can submit expedited stream take-downs of streams that are fake.
For example, the Old School Runescape category has a consistently #1 spot viewbotted account that is rebroadcasting streams of popular streamers in this category, claiming they "are quitting" and "click links in bio to read more."
These streams are phishing attempts and have legitimately been stealing CC information from fooled users for years, and nothing has been done about it.
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chicknwiings
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I was gonna write the same feedback. I remesiss about the game when I open up twitch and see the catagory there with their 7k viewers. Instantly I feel despise when I see 3k viewerbots on one stream that's maliciously trying get you to click their phishing link (and actially making a living) by stealing your in game accounts' belongings, then illegally selling the "profits" on shady websites.
As you mentioned, the streams are consistantly the most "watched" stream in this catagory and it should be easy to monitor as they only have 1 or 2 followers with 3k viewers. The fact that this has been going on for years and nothing being done about it beats me. The community guidlines on twitch.com spesificly says, and I quote:
'Any content or activity featuring, encouraging, offering, or soliciting illegal activity is prohibited. This includes' (...) 'defacement, or theft of public or another person's private property without permission on stream.'
In other words, following twitch's policy they do not premit these kinds of streams, but do little action to take them down.
Since twich puts the responsibility to click on links (that is not connected to twitch itself) on us, it's easy for them to not make an effort to deal with this problem. However, myself and many others despise these malicious streams that shouldn't be there in the first place. So please put some effort in removing this.