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No, it's not reasonable.

>The emote spam in question was not "minor", the accounts affected averaged well over 100 messages each, within a short timeframe.

This is a crazy bad take. 100 messages in a few minutes is totally normal for live-streams. Just hold the ctrl-V button and... oops, your G-Mail is locked.

That. Is. Crazy. I worked at Twitch and the idea of disabling someones Amazon account for spamming emotes (even temporarily) is completely insane.



Nuts. Why not just have a cooldown for emote spam? It's ridiculous it's that easy to have your shit banned.




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