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Originally Posted by nickmcski
Yesterday when I was in the chat I noticed there was a twitch staff member (fix) in the chat.
So worst case if the channel does get an automatic ban leading up to kickoff there will be at least one Twitch staff member in the chat.
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PogChamp -- it's me!
Hey everyone, Zach here from Twitch. Just to give y'all a quick history, I'm an alum from Team 4 down in Los Angeles (2005-2009), went to LSU for Political Science, and joined Twitch on the Partnerships team about 18 months ago.
Sorry for taking so long to jump into this thread as I've been working pretty diligently since the holidays to get the kickoff specifics orchestrated and just landed in New Hampshire myself.
It seems like there's a lot of concern over the categorization and moderation of robotics content on Twitch, so let me say emphatically that both the creative portion (design/fabrication/assembly) and the competition are welcome on Twitch! If you're familiar with the history of Twitch (and Justin.tv), you know that there's been quite an evolution of content guidelines for the site. This developed out of a need to work closely with the community, both on the product and content fronts.
After joining Twitch and working in gaming for about 6 months, we officially launched Twitch Creative which greatly expanded the content allowed on the site. Pretty soon after, I reached out to GameSense who did an absolutely fantastic job at producing a live show at the Championship in St. Louis. As many of you have pointed out -- IRL was the most recent expansion which has even further broadened the content guidelines.
Basically, this has been the first few steps in an effort to #makeitloud -- Twitch's foundation is communities and I truly believe that FIRST & Twitch make a great alliance. As both an alum of the FRC program but also an audience member of Twitch before being an employee, I want to do what I can to make a positive impact on the community. I am here to listen to any feedback (positive and negative!), new ideas, or even help with any engineering/product development. Any thoughts of a way to make TwitchPlaysSTEAMworks happen?
Really excited to see the kickoff stream and hope to see some MrDestructoid in the chat.