content classification Labels are terrible
The new Content Classification labels are lacking in nuance and provide more harm than good.
As opposed to a general "This stream is intended for mature audience and may include content inappropriate for general audiences" You've instead provided people with weapons to attack streamers with unless they flag their stream as inappropriate for everyone. It's already commonplace where minority streamers will get attacked with false reports of things like emotes being too sexual when they are clearly not.
Ultimately you're asking us all to trust that twitch moderation will act in the best interest of the community, something that is historically a meme.
We need something better than this that provides room for nuance rather than vague labels that honestly I don't think even twitch staff have a clear guide on how to follow.
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EmmaLayne
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I've been forced into having the sexual content label on my stream for wearing shorts. I recently broke my arm and my stream was just talking about that so it wasn't put on based on subject matter, all I can figure is legs are no longer allowed on twitch if you're a girl. One of the days I even had super long socks on so only 6 inches of leg was shown, normal shirt normal shorts that cover everything according to TOS, sexual content classification turned on. I've read the rules about it and nobody will tell me anything if there's something I'm doing that they consider sexual. What happened to the Twitch that said just being a girl isn't considered sexual content?