On August 01 2013 20:43 Copymizer wrote: Twitch chat is the cancer of eSports. It's as if you placed 100 immature 10 year olds in a room, made them spectate and just shout random nonsense. I'm not surprised
I've not followed sc2 for a long time, but yea I remember twitch chats being pretty bad at times.
However I absolutely love twitch chats for speedrun streams, they can be pretty funny.
As I said in ABL before, I think this is the right decision. All these "things from X" are the same: they create social circles, they create sub-communities and help people feel like they belong to something, because only those people, who belong, understand. I find it completely asshollistic to use any such kind of "private language" outside its place, because it is a blatant disregard of other people on the forum who of no idea of what the nonsense means.
Every time I think I want to open twitch chat for the chance of maybe saying something that a streamer might consider worth responding to, I realize my grave error and close it within minutes.
On August 01 2013 23:09 neoghaleon55 wrote: I wish the opening post could link to some examples of offending posts. Maybe I'm oblivious, but I had no idea this was happening or what they actually look like in action.
The point isn't to shame users who have been doing it, more to prevent their usage in the future. Here is an example:
On July 29 2013 05:42 some user wrote: Kreygasm * 999999999
On August 01 2013 23:09 neoghaleon55 wrote: I wish the opening post could link to some examples of offending posts. Maybe I'm oblivious, but I had no idea this was happening or what they actually look like in action.
The point isn't to shame users who have been doing it, more to prevent their usage in the future. Here is an example:
On August 01 2013 20:43 Copymizer wrote: Twitch chat is the cancer of eSports. It's as if you placed 100 immature 10 year olds in a room, made them spectate and just shout random nonsense. I'm not surprised
I've not followed sc2 for a long time, but yea I remember twitch chats being pretty bad at times.
However I absolutely love twitch chats for speedrun streams, they can be pretty funny.
Only when stuff is HYPE. HYPE is awesome, and feeling HYPE and seeing chat go 100 miles an hour is awesome.
But outside of that people are really, really, REALLY annoying.
On August 02 2013 00:44 KelsierSC wrote: Just want to support the idea of banning the hashtag twitter nonsense.
I love this site and I really think it can be cheapened by the children who just hashtag everything in a desperate attempt to be funny.
Yeah, and tell those kids to stay off our lawn too!
Ha nice one!
Seriously though I like to think that TL is a relatively high quality community site. Perhaps this is a misguided view but the use of hashtag when it is not supported just comes across as moronic and lowers the quality of posts in my eyes.
It's easy to make the case that 'twitch emotes belong in twitch chats' just as 'hashtags belong on twitter and other places that functionality is used'.
EPT
