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Twitch has shared a new post that reveals the company will have a new Username Policy. This new policy will have stricter guidelines when information technology comes to "inappropriate" and potentially harmful usernames. Twitch claims the new policy is to make the service more than welcoming to all types of people and to curb any potential harassment. Twitch also believes that since usernames are searchable they should be held to a higher standard than other places people express themselves.

As part of the new customs guidelines, a username should not have anything to do with detest oral communication, threats of violence, or accept whatever personally identifiable data. Usernames also can't have any references to sexual acts or hard drugs, excluding alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana. Twitch has unlike levels of what type of enforcement approach when dealing with usernames that don't follow the community guideline. The penalization is determined by how clearly a user breaks the community guidelines.

If a username is a clear violation of the new community guidelines, Twitch will issue an indefinite suspension until the username is reset. If an existing username violates the new policy but isn't a clear violation of the community guidelines, the account will be flagged for reset and the user will be locked out until the proper noun is changed. If a person tries to create a new username that violates this policy, and so that name will exist flagged and the person will need to create a new name.

Twitch also requests that people should report users who have names that break the new guidelines.