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8,390 votesTwitch responded
Hi, thanks for flagging this and sharing your suggestion.
We share and understand your concerns about how the intentional, repeated misuse of tags can undermine the purpose of the tags product itself. Tags are an important discoverability feature for communities, and a powerful way for all Creators—but especially those that are underrepresented—to express their personal identity and creative vision for their content.
We also do not feel Twitch should be the judge of Creators’ personal or creative identity, so we typically only enforce against the misuse of tags when it is associated with other behavior that violates our Community Guidelines such as hateful conduct or harassment.
That said, as the VTuber community’s experience demonstrates, there are limitations to this approach and we are actively investigating additional steps we can take to protect and improve the integrity of the tags feature at scale, without infringing on good faith Creators’ personal choice…
An error occurred while saving the comment An error occurred while saving the comment Unsounded commentedWhile i agree that a lot of people are making this a bigger problem than it really is and there are definitely people being hypocritical in places. This abuse is happening all over twitch and has been happening for a long time now. The reasons streamers give when called out if they even give any at all are often disgusting to hear which is infuriating
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It's been so long and all we got was a weak acknowledgement without any action. I still see both large and small streamers do this without even being asked not to do it let alone being punished.