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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…
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I can't sugarcoat it: getting rid of the Moments feature is a very poor decision that only makes Twitch worse overall, and I think Pie makes a great argument here as to why that is the case. Why would Twitch get rid of a fledgling feature that most people CAN'T even use when it's something beloved by those who do?
It's something that makes Twitch unique; it's one of the advantages in Twitch's identity over something like YouTube. On YouTube where video content is generally the focus more than live content, clips by the streamer are the norm, and there's not really anything to set them apart as special beyond maybe a playlist. On Twitch, however, whose focus is live content, the concept of a rare, special clip by the streamer has a lot more magic to it, and I think that Moments are much more likely to highlight the best content a channel has to offer. Not only that, but as a viewer, you even get a badge to prove that you were there when it happened live. This decision is shooting yourselves in the foot, and both streamers and viewers in the back.
As a viewer, I've seen how excited chat gets when something cool and potentially Moment-worthy happens. Who decided this? Surely not someone who's seen how chats clamor "WHAT A MOMENT :O" after a momentous occasion, and dream of someday having the higher tier badges. Moments mean a lot to chatters, and taking this feature away will actively hurt the communities who use them. I strongly suspect the reason they're not used more is because a lot of streamers don't know they have them, haven't had their value adequately explained to them, or simply literally don't have them. Moments are a reason to hype chat up and make it feel like they witnessed something special and memorable. Their Moment badge progression proves their loyalty to the channel.
One of the key parts of live content is that feeling that YOU WERE THERE, and Moments have been an excellent way of proving that. Moments are one of the unique reasons people watch Twitch; there's a sense of FOMO, a reason to be motivated to catch every stream. Why would you kill something that perfectly complements Twitch's identity instead of improving it? Moments should not be removed; if anything, they should be expanded! Imagine if everyone had Moments, and they were up to three minutes long; special, deluxe clips hand-picked by the streamer themselves. Imagine if they had a full week to edit them! Do you really think they'd still be "underutilized" if all streamers had that unique ability to create longer, better clips than chat?
Please keep Moments. When you see the negative reaction to this and tell yourself it's not that many people affected, keep in mind that only a limited number of streamers even had access to this feature to begin with. A lot of streamers have been patiently waiting to have the opportunity to share Moments with their communities, and now it's being squelched before it even makes it out of beta.
If you think Moments aren't good enough for people to want to use them, improve them (a limited amount -- 5-10 each month -- of three-minute clips would be game-changing), give them to every streamer, and make sure streamers understand the benefits of using them. At their core, Moments are an incredible feature that sets Twitch apart, and their removal will kill viewers' motivation to be there for every single stream. Please reconsider!