Twitch is disbanding its Safety Advisory Council and will replace it with streamers

what a terrible business decision

emulating Amazon's strategy of fast turnover in addition to basically announcing to the public that the position will no longer offer any payment for services provided by moderators

• (using moderators here as it's related to fedi instances)

are you joking right now Twitch?

I feel like I'm watching a rehash of Reddit and Twitter with this foolish move

It's like watching a forest fire. Logically, I know this makes room for new organizations to thrive. But it's still sad to watch, and people get hurt while it happens.

These "strategies" spread between organizations with no leadership backbone to resist the stupid. And those organizations make choices that will end them, and send their stock value to zero.

In a wider sense, I get it. We speculated on 20-to-1 price to earnings ratios, like that wasn't a completely terrible idea. And many of us didn't understand the nature of that "investment". Now it's time to pump that market at all costs, and surely not just lose our initial investment as well as our planned returns.

I can sort of understand logically why every company mathematically feels they must now bet the farm - each quarter - on moves that may bankrupt them.

I can't understand why more of them don't have a CEO with the backbone to just say "no, that's stupid. We're not doing that."

This is the best summary I could come up with:

According to a report published at CNBC, Twitch has decided to terminate the contracts of all the existing members of its Safety Advisory Council.

The council received the news that Twitch would not be renewing their contracts earlier this month, and they will reportedly be terminated effective Friday, May 31st, without further pay.

The advisory council was formed in May 2020 with the goal to “enhance Twitch’s approach to issues of trust and safety.” It was made up of nine members, including Twitch streamers, moderators, and outside experts with experience studying and combating online harassment.

Though these contracts are at their end, Twitch intends for the Safety Advisory Council to continue.

In a statement to The Verge, Twitch trust and safety communications manager Elizabeth Busby writes that the streaming platform will expand the council’s membership to the roughly 180 members of Twitch’s ambassador program.

Paid ethics teams have often been cut back as tech companies have tightened their belts over the past couple of years.

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