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https://blog.twitch.tv/twitch-community-guidelines-updates-f2e82d87ae58

Twitch has decided to update their Guidelines to crack down on a ton of different content. Additionally, there are.other rules changes some are less then thrilled about. For example, twitch maintains that they can ban your channel for things your channel has never done, Such as if your fanbase decides to post any content that's racist, sexist, homophobic, ageist, anti-disability, basically anything negative.

They've also made it clear if your personal life ends up experiencing drama, be it something that violates the law such as abusing your wife or child porn, you'll be suspended. But Along with that, other instances can also get you banned, such as if you were not faithful in a marriage, or if you get in a heated argument with someone on social media, at least such is being theorized by the twitch community.

Bans will also affect content retroactively, and thus many twitch streams now have to delete archieves of videos that might be considered offensive. However they also have the added problem of YouTube Saving a lot of the content considered now bannable. Twitch has said if you don't get rid of that content by February 19 you will be banned, so what happens in a situation where it's not your channel hosting the videos and thus you don't have a way of deleting it? Twitch unsurprisingly didn't have an answer to this, but it seems a ban for violation of it's new rules is likely.

What do you guys think of these new changes? I personally really don't like these changes. Part of the fun with twitch was the more or less the wild west of video uploading. Now that these changes are implimented a lot of channels are gonna lose that authenticity that came with seeing a person just be themselves on camera.

So they did a RSH drop again.

Also, does that mean that if I hate a certain channel, I can just flood the channel with messages Twitch mods consider hateful?

And they have balls to call it "A Better Twitch for Everyone"?

The "cross-site" rule enforcements taking place in various sites are also a worrying trend, especially since major websites are administrated by people with a bit too similar political views.

As with any websites, these rules wouldn't have been a problem if they had been in place since the inception of the site but when users have invested in the site so much, it's hard to migrate or start your own website.

The effects of this are basically similar to dumping pricing policy but with bad rules instead of bad prices.

Really, Twitch has become too big for its own good. Are there any good alternatives to Twitch? There's Smashcast but is there anything else as well?

You know, when I first heard of Twitch, one of the biggest selling points (to me, anyway) was that its content guidelines weren't quite as paternalistic as YouTube or any of its competitors. So now, I have to ask myself, should I choose to stream something, what advantage does Twitch still have policy-wise over any of the other designed-by-committee video-sharing sites? What's that one Nietzsche quote that everyone loves about fighting monsters?

Really, Twitch has become too big for its own good. Are there any good alternatives to Twitch? There’s Smashcast but is there anything else as well?

Ustream used to be pretty popular, and the site's launch actually predates that of Twitch by about four years, but last I looked at it the client software was so broken and the content filtering system had so many copyright false positives it was unusable. That was a while ago though, so things may or may not be different now.

To be honest its worse then Youtubes. If you violated Youtube's policy you could just accept the Loss of revenue and demonetize, but you'd still be able to publish your video and have it circulate, and attract attention.

But these are bans they're talking about, that means your basically lose the ability to upload anything at all. So the risk is greater on Twitch, but with less reward then Youtube.