Trihex demands Twitch take action on hate raids after suffering racial abuse AGDQMychal \u2018Trihex\u2019 Jefferson is one of the faces of Twitch \u2014 literally. However, the man behind the TriHard emote has become a target for \u201chate raids\u201d on the platform, so he\u2019s called on Twitch to implement solutions fast. Hate raids have taken over Twitch. While issues with bots brigading chats and hurling racist and homophobic abuse at streamers has been prevalent for years, it\u2019s exploded into an epidemic in August 2021. Streamers have rallied behind the hashtag #TwitchDoBetter, and are even planning a boycott on September 1. For Trihex, it\u2019s a topic he knows all too well. As one of the faces of Twitch and the man behind the TriHard emote, which is being used in the raids, he has been subjected to racial abuse on the platform for years. Now, those botters targeting smaller streamers are flooding his own chat. After experiencing his first hate raid on August 22, he called on Twitch to \u201cfix this sooner rather than later.\u201d Well I see what these hate raids are all about, having experienced one myself just now. We gotta fix this sooner rather than later, huh @Twitch? pic.twitter.com\/Av3eUebXN1 \u2014 trihex (@trihex) August 22, 2021 \u201cI\u2019m no stranger to being called these hateful things but not everyone is accustomed to dealing with it,\u201d he said. \u201cA small streamer with no mod team getting invaded by tens or hundreds of bots and having to ban the bot accounts manually \u2014 one at a time \u2014 can be traumatizing. \u201cThe most we can do natively (outside of third-party tools) is turn on sub mode and individually nuke accounts and then enable follower-only until things stabilize.\u201d While Twitch has promised action on the issue, the platform\u2019s current \u201carchaic\u201d model won\u2019t tide streamers over for months, or even weeks, of harassment. Instead, he wants them to \u201cnuke all vulnerabilities\u201d and implement action now \u2014 starting with two-factor authentication. This minimizes the trauma of reading all this trash, cleans it up quickly for those without large mod teams, and seems like a “”low-lift\/high-impact”” type of action to help out the most vulnerable at this time. More on Twitch 2FA: https:\/\/t.co\/sAR670pVh7 \u2014 trihex (@trihex) August 23, 2021 \u201cI advocate a two-factor authentication toggle be added \u2014 only 2FA accounts can send messages. Add a separate option for broadcasters to choose if any posts from non-2FA (bots) get deleted upon toggle as well.\u201d \u201cThis minimizes the trauma of reading all this trash, cleans it up quickly for those without large mod teams, and seems like a \u2018low-lift-high-impact\u2019 type of action to help out the most vulnerable at this time.\u201d Twitch promised on August 20 that they are working on \u201csolutions\u201d to the hate raid problem, specifically revolving around ban evasion and improving their banned word filters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Trihex demands Twitch take action on hate raids after suffering racial abuse AGDQMychal \u2018Trihex\u2019 Jefferson is one of the faces of Twitch \u2014 literally. However, the man behind the TriHard emote has become a target for \u201chate raids\u201d on the platform, so he\u2019s called on Twitch to implement solutions fast. Hate raids have taken over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}