Twitch apologizes after banning streamer for \u201coffensive\u201d username TwitchA Twitch streamer who was inexplicably banned indefinitely, with Twitch citing his \u201cinappropriate\u201d username, has been unbanned and received an apology from the platform. Twitch\u2019s moderation actions are under constant scrutiny among the community of both streamers and viewers. Streamers will often complain of unjust suspensions, and unclear reasons given (or rather, not given) for their punishment. One streamer to fall victim to this error was \u2018pavlle_\u2019 \u2013 a small streamer with only 59 followers, whose story went viral on Reddit, after the platform banned him permanently for a supposedly \u201cinappropriate\u201d username. The username in question was \u201cPajja_\u201d \u2013 in Spanish, this word has a colloquial meaning, which would indeed be offensive. However, the streamer, Pavlle (as he now goes by), is Serbian, not Spanish, and so when he was suspended for his name, was totally bemused. On October 8, he shared his ban notification on Twitter, which said \u201cReason: Using an inappropriate username\u201d, and confirmed the length of the suspension as \u201cindefinite.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s been a good run, thank you all for continued support,\u201d Pavlle said. \u201cApparently my Twitch name \u201cPajja_\u201d my nickname I had for YEARS is offensive somehow.\u201d Welp bois its been a good run, thank you all for continued support. Aparently my twitch name “”Pajja_”” my nickname i had for YEARS is offensive somehow. @TwitchSupport pic.twitter.com\/Q3B9NGuArZ \u2014 Pavle (@Pavlle_) October 7, 2020 For almost a month, Pavlle received no response from Twitch after he filed a support ticket to dispute the suspension. However, thankfully, his story went viral on the popular subreddit r\/LivestreamFail, accruing over 14,000 upvotes after it was posted on November 6. Only hours after this thread began to gain momentum, Twitch sent an email to Pavlle, confirming he was no longer banned, and stating that the suspension was a mistake on their part. Boys and girls ladies and gentleladies with the help of Intingcarl and LSF twitch has finally noticed me and i have been unsuspended, it has been over a month for a “”mistake LULW”” but im glad i am unbanned atleast, thank you intingcarl and thank you LSF. pic.twitter.com\/QHFYATWWUg \u2014 Pavle (@Pavlle_) November 6, 2020 The timing of the email, coinciding with the now-viral Reddit post, does raise questions, as it\u2019s unlikely (although possible) that it was coincidental. If the story had not been shared to Reddit, would Twitch have noticed and acknowledged the mistake? \u201cI am glad I am unbanned at least,\u201d Pavlle said. But, he also highlighted that it took \u201cover a month\u201d for a mistake to be rectified. For some streamers, who make their career from broadcasting, this could be a devastating loss of income. This follows after another streamer, \u201cPiece of Sheet\u201d, was banned for his apparently \u201cinappropriate name\u201d \u2013 despite using it for eight years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Twitch apologizes after banning streamer for \u201coffensive\u201d username TwitchA Twitch streamer who was inexplicably banned indefinitely, with Twitch citing his \u201cinappropriate\u201d username, has been unbanned and received an apology from the platform. Twitch\u2019s moderation actions are under constant scrutiny among the community of both streamers and viewers. Streamers will often complain of unjust suspensions, and […]<\/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-62194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62194","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=62194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}