Join the NASDAQ Community today and get free, instant access to portfolios, stock ratings, realtime alerts, and more Join Today. Harassment Livestreams On Twitch Are Multiplying And Easy To Find. Earlier this week Kotaku UK ran an article from Charleyy Hodson about the sexual harassment she recently faced on Twitch while livestreaming in the sites IRL category. Everyone seems to agree theres a problem, but its not so easy to find consensus on how platforms like Twitch should be tackling it. Given the focus of many online platforms on creating automated mod tools, we thought wed run an experiment. How easy is it for a human to track down Twitch accounts that either focus on, or regularly engage in, verifiable instances of targeted harassment on the platform This piece originally appeared on Kotaku UK 81. As it turns out, incredibly easy. And thats without any access to Twitchs support accounts or report logs. We spent 9. 0 minutes looking for harassment and were able to identify and document 2. Twitch that regularly engage in harassment of other users, either via in stream chat or by re streaming peoples livestreams and commenting on them. Every one of these accounts is still active at the time of publishing, though weve passed our findings on to Twitch support. How did we find so many so quickly Depressingly, most of these harassment focused accounts were found by looking at Twitter users who had tweeted at Twitchs official support account about their harassment. These users received no public response, and their harassers remain on Twitch. BUC1r0gptjo1_500.jpg' alt='Watch Easy Living Online Fandango Movie' title='Watch Easy Living Online Fandango Movie' />Theres about a ton of plastic for each person living in the world todaythats 8,300 million tons of plastic produced since 1950, most of which has become. Stranger Things is an American science fictionhorror web television series created, written, directed and coexecutive produced by the Duffer Brothers, as well as co. People were giving Twitch the exact information we used, and within minutes of investigating each case wed found clear proof of what they were flagging. Twitch archives the chat on livestreams. If you know when harassment took place, you can find the accounts behind it from the chat. Supernatural Season Episode 3. From there, you can check each users page and further evidence of their behaviour is right in front of you, particularly for those users livestreaming their harassment of others. Watch Easy Living Online Fandango GamesIn 9. Of the 2. 5 accounts we found, seven of them had engaged in livestreaming their harassment of other Twitch users on the IRL section of the site. Of those users, all of them had streamed harassment since the start of August. Most of these channels featured between five and ten videos in the IRL section of the site. Its all still available for the public to watch. CAFkZV39l1TnNazAmmLgWu4c1.jpg' alt='Watch Easy Living Online Fandango Code' title='Watch Easy Living Online Fandango Code' />People often discuss human moderation as if its some impossible task, like the sheer volume of traffic that a service like Twitch handles is too much for even an army to handle. Is that really true Its not Kotaku UKs job to moderate Twitch, but in 9. Twitch itself. We contacted Twitch earlier today for comment, before publication of the Charleyy Hodson story, and have subsequently followed up with calls. So far the best weve got back is a brief holding statement promising a comment at a later time. Twitch does have a report function on its site. It does seem to respond, sometimes, to these reports though in the case of Ms. HTDaf/x480-bhD.jpg' alt='Watch Easy Living Online Fandango Gift' title='Watch Easy Living Online Fandango Gift' />Hodsons harasser, the account was suspended and then, bizarrely, re instated. This all suggests that Twitch needs to start taking harassment in general, and in particular the livestreaming of it, much more seriously. Responding to users in a timely manner would be a start. We found these harassers easily and without any access to Twitchs own support tools, and weeks later their accounts are still active in every case. Which suggests, frankly, that dealing with this problem is not a priority for the streaming giant. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK, bringing you original reporting, game culture and humour with a U from the British isles. Follow them on KotakuUK.