The #AdayOfftWitch will take place today

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During the last weeks, Hate Raids, where hundreds of users and bots attack streamers with offensive, sexist and transfaphic comments, have become a big problem in twitch . In the absence of an effective response from the platform, the #TwitchDobetter movement began to encourage the company to make a series of changes. However, seeing that this was not having a result, today, September 1, the # Adayofftwitch will take place, where several Streamers will not enter this site for 24 hours.

The #AdayOfftWitch was created by Shineypen, Lucia Everblack, and Rekitraven, and more than providing a solution to Hate Raids, ** This movement is focused to demonstrate the problems that certain community groups suffer. This was what Shineypen commented on this:

A free day [twitch] tries mainly to unite in solidarity. The day free is a step in the many steps that we have to give towards change.

For its part, Rekitraven said that:

I think it's important to unite for the good of all those affected and show that we are not going back down.

While this movement was created by only three streamers, #DAYOFOFTWITCH has gained great support for other members of the community in recent days. However, Large names of the platform are not linked to this position . Some have argued that leaving twitch for a day is exactly what Hate Raid participants want, while others mention that without the support of the most popular players, these actions will not have the weight that is needed.

For its part, Twitch is aware of these pronouncements , and this was commented by a company representative:

We support the rights of our streamers to express themselves and draw attention to important problems throughout our service. No one should have to experience malicious and hatred attacks based on who they are or what they represent, and we are working hard to improve the evasion detection of channel level and additional improvements in the account to help Twitch be a place more Sure for the creators .

In the same way, this has given rise to a series of conversations about the position of other similar platforms. Some streamers have even considered moving to Youtube Gaming or Facebook Gaming. However, it has also been pointed out that this is not an adequate solution, since the problem of HATE RAIDS will remain present.

At the moment, Twitch does not have a clear solution to this problem. However, considered the great noise that has caused #Adayofftwitch, this is something that the platform can not ignore and, taking into account that this is a full-time job for many of these people, it is necessary to offer a safe space for them.

On related topics, this was Twitch's initial response to the complaints of Hate Raids.

Via: The Verge