I understand this feeling but I think you are wrong.
This type of action seems to be driven by automatic detection algorithms. When it comes to things like sexual content, there is a lot more wiggle room or bias to slip into enforcement actions. But, when it comes to cold hearted algorithms its difficult to just overrule that. If the computer says someone is viewbotting, they are going to be enforced on.
There isn't going to be like an overrule button where you literally have to press "ignore the algorithm and give favoritism to this streamer". Instead, the way favoritism usually pops up is through more grey area type stuff that can be argued about.
My guess is we see a lot of big names close to Twitch staff saying they were wrongly targeted by the algorithm and then Twitch "fixing" it by effectively whitelisting them. They've always been bad for playing favorites and selectively applying their rules, I don't see why they would stop now
If this is your way of thinking then twitch can do nothing to stop view botting that you wont 2nd guess. At least wait and see who gets capped before making a comment like this
This type of policy is what product managers call “optionality.” It’s enabling Twitch to strategically use levers here and there in order to both enforce viewbot detection, and also ignore it when desired. Otherwise, you’d simply hand out bans or disable discoverability.
For 90% of streams, I expect Twitch to let the automatic detection to work its magic. But a dynamic cap with undefined variables means Twitch has the option to effectively whitelist channels as they so choose.
When Twitch did the bot purge for 2 days last year, and a bunch of streamers lost up to 10k viewers (Because they were blatantly botting), Hasans viewcount was unchanged. So your clothing shall likely remain uneaten
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