With the arrival of Kick, there are many streamers who are switching to this new platform under the pretext of having greater freedom of movement by not having a policy as inflexible as Twitch, a platform that bans streamers for any nonsense, generally outside of context.
But if we talk about the banning of users, of the people who watch the broadcasts regularly, both Kick and Twitch share the same principles. When a user is banned on both platforms, he no longer has the possibility to write in the chat, so he cannot express his discomfort, usually based on being a troll, to generate discomfort in the community.
While it is true that this measure is more than enough for streamers to feel more comfortable on the platform, it is not enough for many other streamers who want to severely punish these types of users, preventing them from continuing to enjoy their broadcasts. . The solution to this problem has announced Twitch in the last conference in which he reports all the news that will be implemented on the platform.
This new feature will allow streamers to block trolls so that not only can they not write in the chat, but also they will not be able to continue watching the live broadcast, punishing them harshly for their actions. While it’s true that trolls can create another account and continue to annoy both the streamer and followers, Twitch has long offered a feature that prevents users of newly created accounts from interacting with chat.
Furthermore, it also includes a feature that also prevents users from interacting if they do not confirm their phone number. All these measures are focused on making Twitch a much healthier community. This measure is not implemented through the user’s IP so, by simply logging out, users who like to annoy will be able to continue watching the broadcast without any problem, without being able to interact with the broadcast. let alone with the streamer.
Blocking this type of people through IP is not possible because many users in the same area share the same connection address. This is the same reason why Netflix has had a hard time detecting how many users of the same account live in the same household to restrict account sharing.
In addition, many operators, just by restarting the router, allow you to renew the IP for a new one, so this is a half measure that, added to the restriction on interacting with new and confirmed accounts that we have explained above, should be more enough to clean the platform of toxic users.
