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They valued explicit political correctness, but that's not so good when you're making a place designed for just chilling and hanging out... At least, not when y

They valued explicit political correctness, but that's not so good when you're making a place designed for just chilling and hanging out... At least, not when you're trying to grow. Another way to word it is that the online gaming community is extremely toxic and you have to accept a decent chunk of that toxicity to grow a community in the gaming space.

TheAdamAndChe 6y ago
What I am about to say, I mean with absolutely no disrespect. What you consider non-toxic is considered uptight and overly sensitive by many... Whether you think that's right or not is beside the point. I understand the need for political correctness and politicing at work. It keeps conflicts from arising and it avoids hurt feelings. It's not as valued by many people outside of work. That can affect the growth of sites like this. Put in another way: each stream is an individual community. By making such explicit rules, they are policing culture and suppressing certain identities. That is counter to the environment needed for growth.
2bitencryption 6y ago
I don't know, I think this is a bit harsh -- I'm not arguing the gaming community isn't toxic, it certainly can be -- but rather I think Mixer wanted its community to be just like those actors who played hip 20-somethings in "real gameplay" game trailers at E3. It always seemed to have a "hello fellow gamers" mentality, and simply did not "get" the type of people it was trying to recruit. If a stream and its viewers is a community, then on Mixer you didn't really have the chance to make that community "yours" -- rather, you had to be what Mixer wanted you to be, which is some made-up archetype of the advertiser-friendly hip gamer who captures that coveted market segment without saying anything even remotely controversial.

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They valued explicit political correctness, but that's not so good when you're making a place designed for just chilling and hanging out... At least, not when y

by Goronmon 6y ago

TheAdamAndChe 6y ago
What I am about to say, I mean with absolutely no disrespect. What you consider non-toxic is considered uptight and overly sensitive by many... Whether you think that's right or not is beside the point. I understand the need for political correctness and politicing at work. It keeps conflicts from arising and it avoids hurt feelings. It's not as valued by many people outside of work. That can affect the growth of sites like this. Put in another way: each stream is an individual community. By making such explicit rules, they are policing culture and suppressing certain identities. That is counter to the environment needed for growth.
2bitencryption 6y ago
I don't know, I think this is a bit harsh -- I'm not arguing the gaming community isn't toxic, it certainly can be -- but rather I think Mixer wanted its community to be just like those actors who played hip 20-somethings in "real gameplay" game trailers at E3. It always seemed to have a "hello fellow gamers" mentality, and simply did not "get" the type of people it was trying to recruit. If a stream and its viewers is a community, then on Mixer you didn't really have the chance to make that community "yours" -- rather, you had to be what Mixer wanted you to be, which is some made-up archetype of the advertiser-friendly hip gamer who captures that coveted market segment without saying anything even remotely controversial.