Overwatch Contenders to Test New Chat Moderation Program

Originally Posted by Justpassing

What's funnier is that all these Americans think this whole right vs. left bullshit applies to the eurofags like us - or the rest of the world.

As someone living in Europe you need to be daft as hell to not figure out which part of yours is the most left. I mean...come on think for 1 minute at least. Every country has a similar party. France, Finland, Sweden, Germany, UK, etc. Maybe use your brain for a little and put 2 and 2 together. Only difference is a different name. Worst part is there is no party called "left" in America. Just use your noggin and compare which parties have a similar mentality to a leftist one. It's not hard...

Originally Posted by Sabnock

It's kind besides the point...

Maybe... but it's literally a 45 -60 second solution.

Originally Posted by shadowmatrix

I need to know the truth of the matter, not some fantasy version made to get views.

Do you want a Blizzard employer to spell it out or otherwise are they only conjectures? Seriously?
Any Jeff Kaplan statement about political correctness of the last 2 years will plenty do the trick, about why thy are introducing this kind of fsb systems.

It's actually hilarious that this is considered left wing (an already sometime funny concept) yet ultimately obviously driven for profit, so I guess we should instead be blaming capitalism? /s. Shows in general what an unhealthy environment we have ended up in with people's perception and the ability to discern.

Originally Posted by KronosIII

As someone living in Europe you need to be daft as hell to not figure out which part of yours is the most left. I mean...come on think for 1 minute at least. Every country has a similar party. France, Finland, Sweden, Germany, UK, etc. Maybe use your brain for a little and put 2 and 2 together. Only difference is a different name. Worst part is there is no party called "left" in America. Just use your noggin and compare which parties have a similar mentality to a leftist one. It's not hard...

Yeah dude, here's my noggin working: It isn't as big of a deal here. You don't see people randomly breaking down to tears about May. There's some brexit drama but it isn't Trump.

I can see the point, blizzards community is either highly toxic or highly over sensitive. I can see where this would come in handy in Trollverwatch but if it works here it will move to other twitch platforms and thats whats alarming. If twitch adopts these standards to start banning accounts due to negative comments or this fabled "hatespeech" then it will be the end of some streamers and their livelihood.

Originally Posted by Corruptus

What do you mean? in the blue post they say they want you to link twitch and b.net together

Most Overwatch players already did that for the Mercy items several months back. I'm talking about that losing your games comment.

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Originally Posted by Sabnock

Do you want a Blizzard employer to spell it out or otherwise are they only conjectures? Seriously?
Any Jeff Kaplan statement about political correctness of the last 2 years will plenty do the trick, about why thy are introducing this kind of fsb systems.

I hate to break it to you but most twitch channels will ban you for going too far in chat, it isn't new.

Uh oh, here come the racist, authoritarian scumbags to shut down everyone who disagrees with racist SJW ideology.

'Social justice' ideology is the most blatantly racist collection of ideas I have ever come across.
The practice of actively dividing and assigning everyone into 'cookie cutter' identity groups - stripping individual agency by recognizing those prefabricated contexts INSTEAD OF anything the the individual values or does - and giving people 'identities' based on things that have nothing to do with the individual - is prejudice. And prejudice based on race is racism.

The split you're seeing is people moving towards 'Libertarian' to push back against 'Authoritarian'.

Those who think it's all about 'left vs right' are fundamentally misunderstanding the situation.

The media (controlling the Overton window), academia ('social justice' ideology), and establishment political parties (globalism) are all trending towards authoritarianism.

This is unacceptable.

Nice way to close off 2018. I wonder what they'll have in store for us in 2019! New in-game items obtainable only through Twitch? Twitch-Battle.net discount bundles? An entire new content patch dedicated to the addition of a "Stream now on Twitch!"-button to the game?

Originally Posted by shadowmatrix

I hate to break it to you but most twitch channels will ban you for going too far in chat, it isn't new.

You realize that most twitch channels will not erase my game library in the process, if they arbitrarily will choose to ban me, don't you?

Originally Posted by KronosIII

Only difference is a different name.

Not even close no.

Not a single democratic party in Europe would call the US Democratic party "left".
In Switzerland they would be categorized center-right. And most likely same in any of the main EU countries.

When in Europe we have a left/right debate. It's actually that.
When the US have a left/right debate. It's the economic right wing VS alt right nutjobs.

There is no left in US with any political force, period. Thus making the clivage VERY different in Europe and the United States.

Amazon trying to buy into Blizzard?

Also good luck trying to change how humans work. Saying bad things is not going to stop and disappear

You can sperg out with retarded spam in any other stream guys, just not in the OWL streams. Can't see the big deal. I will not link them since I don't feel the need to join in on the Twitch chat spam.

Originally Posted by Sabnock

You realize that most twitch channels will not erase my game library in the process, if they arbitrarily will choose to ban me, don't you?

And at what point has anything official said you will lose your games if you get banned from the channel?

Originally Posted by shadowmatrix

Most Overwatch players already did that for the Mercy items several months back. I'm talking about that losing your games comment.

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I hate to break it to you but most twitch channels will ban you for going too far in chat, it isn't new.

Twitch channels ban vs. Your entire Blizzard game library ban... kinda new.

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Originally Posted by shadowmatrix

And at what point has anything official said you will lose your games if you get banned from the channel?

Why would they want any bnet account for that? To send you a in-game mail in WoW sayingr "you're a bad person!"? hahaha

Originally Posted by shadowmatrix

And at what point has anything official said you will lose your games if you get banned from the channel?

Do you think that they'll only ban you from their twitch chat? Why the fuck would they require you to sign up with your b.net then? Of course they'll ban your whole b.net account aka deleting your game library

Officer Blizzard on the scene to stop anyone from getting their feelings hurt!

Originally Posted by Shambulanced

I love that this instantly devolved into the biggest, most ridiculous argument about "political" mindsets ever, where everybody screeches that it's "the other side's" fault.



This user gets it. The goalposts in the USA are so far right it's absurd, and anything borderline close to human rights or civil/socially "liberal" is instantly branded as virtue signalling, "globalist leftist scum," "SJW taking over everything," etc. 'Civility' only matters when it's for your team, after all.


Can't we all just agree that Twitch chat was, is, and continues to be completely stupid and spammy? Any stream with 100+ viewers devolves into people spamming the same over-used, unfunny memes and emoji. Nobody actually talks to each other in the chat, it's the equivalent of wearing noiseproof headphones, going into a stadium with thousands of people who do the same, and screaming dumb stuff repeatedly.

I disagree, I like twitch chat. It can be funny and its refreshing no nonsense stupidity is sometimes all I want when I'm watching a game. If I don't like it i'll close it.

Also plenty of streamers with over 100 viewers have the sort of chat you mean, check out Lifecoach for example. It's nice to have a mixture as you aren't going to be able to have meaningful discourse when there's 50k people in a chat for an esport.

The big deal is that Twitch is a mess and most people don't even know what they can't say or which emoji they can't use.

"ah, this twitch thing is cool, hahaha nice frog emoji", *"You're banned"*, "huh?!"

You just need a edgy mod to overreact and do something that they shouldn't because they're feeling powerful. As long as it was confined to their own stuff (usually that specific twitch channel or twitch itself), it was ok. Now it does not look ok if they're taking things outside of their own service since no system is 100% perfect.

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Originally Posted by Release

I disagree, I like twitch chat. It can be funny and its refreshing no nonsense stupidity is sometimes all I want when I'm watching a game. If I don't like it i'll close it.

Also plenty of streamers with over 100 viewers have the sort of chat you mean, check out Lifecoach for example. It's nice to have a mixture as you aren't going to be able to have meaningful discourse when there's 50k people in a chat for an esport.

Yeah, you can just close the chat and not be bothered by it anymore.

Just like how people say that if you don't like a tv show, you can just turn off your tv or switch channels. But somehow they can't turn off the chat that they think it should never exist because it's a "cesspool" or whatever.

Originally Posted by VanishO2

Why would they want any bnet account for that? To send you a in-game mail in WoW sayingr "you're a bad person!"? hahaha

I doubt this actually has a lot to do with moderation, although they claim this. This seems much more of a setup to monetize the streams more and more with Blizzard taking a nice slice of that pie also. As it seems to be a awful lot of trouble to do this just to ban a few ppl on battle.net.