Moderating an online community is hard, often thankless work — and it's even harder when it happens in a silo. On Twitch, interconnected channels already informally share information on users they ...

When OoeyGooee goes live on Twitch, she boots up a game (lately, Party Animals), sits down to chat with viewers, or pops on a movie. Hundreds of people tune in to watch, chatting alongside her ...

Twitch introduces new moderation features, including the ability to share banned users' comments and new "shield mode" integration for easier moderation. These features aim to make the streaming ...

When Anti-Defamation League researchers set out to study the harassment of political figures on Twitch, they expected to encounter a breeding ground of live abuse. Previous research out of ADL’s ...

The popular Twitch streamer xQc has revealed during one of his recent streams that he doesn't pay his moderators for the work that they do. As he was playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 on stream ...

It’s really important for streamers to have loyal viewers. There are a number of ways to reward loyal viewers, but one of them is the VIP role. If a streamer completes the “Build a Community” ...