Short Stacks

Today, we’re introducing Enforcement Notes – additional clarifications and examples within the Community Guidelines designed to make our rules easier to follow. Going forward, we’ll use Enforcement Notes to outline how our rules apply to trends we see on Twitch. If a new “meta” violates an existing policy, we see a spike in our data, or there is large community confusion and discussion on social media, we’ll look to publish an enforcement note under the relevant policy, clarifying what behaviors break our rules. These notes won’t replace our other communications, such as blogs and Tweets, but are meant to help provide a source of truth for all policy and enforcement updates. Our goal is to share the context you need to succeed on Twitch, so starting today, Enforcement Notes can be found in our Safety Center within Community Guidelines. When we publish a new enforcement note, we’ll also notify you here, via @TwitchSupport. We’ve added a substantial number of new examples and clarifications under many of our existing policies for you to browse, and we’ve also consolidated several previous stand-alone pages into the Community Guidelines. Future additions to Enforcement Notes will have a visual indicator, to let you know that we’ve updated the page. Today’s additions can be found under the “enforcement notes & clarifications” header, under each relevant policy. Finally, we understand that even with collapsable sections and an Index, that this can be a lot to read without using the search functionality on your browser (CTRL+F, etc). We’re working on a search functionality for the page in the future to make it easier to find exactly what you’re looking for! 💜