Rules. Read them thoroughly.

Rules were last updated: 13th November 2021.

It's sad that we have to put anything more than just "don't be a dick" here, but some people don't seem to understand what that means anymore...

Our rules are designed to encourage all our users to be good web citizens. We believe everyone should be able to chill, relax, and talk about life. In order for that to happen, we swiftly obliterate racism, transphobia, ableism or hate speech of any kind. There is no place for it here or in the world in general.

We actively apply these rules to our community members on the services we provide. However, if abhorrent or inappropriate behaviour is reported to us, by anyone, we will investigate and will apply the rules below to that conduct; even if it is on an unrelated service.

Community Rules

Further Details

Infractions and Punishments

Please ensure that you read and fully understand the rules above. Failure to abide by these rules will lead to punishments being applied to your account as detailed in the following section. If you have any questions about the rules, or you do not believe that the rules are clear, please contact us via email at [email protected] for clarification.

Users will receive an infraction for breaking any of the rules above. Depending on the severity of the infraction the punishment applied will vary. Generally conduct will fall into three categories:

  1. Minor infraction. Backseating during a game.
  2. Major infraction. Discussing piracy in chat.
  3. Extreme infraction or Repeat infractions. Think TOS violations or worse.

Upon receiving an infraction, players will be warned, temporarily banned, or permanently banned, depending on the number previous infractions as well as the severity of all infraction(s). Particularly serious rule violations will result in an immediate permanent ban with no prior warning.

Example Twitch does not tolerate any abuse that is motivated by hatred, prejudice or intolerance, therefore the penalty for such behaviour is more severe.

The above is provided as guidance to help you understand why your mesasage may have been deleted; each situation is different and moderators have been told to use their discretion to make judgments about each situation in turn. This means that sometimes the current situation may not fit into a nice box, and will instead require different punishments. If you believe that your punishment is unfair you can contact us via the support email [email protected] and it will be reviewed. Please be aware, if a moderator has used their discretion to overlook or pardon a specific action, which is then later reviewed as part of an email sent; your punishment may be increased.

Notice Starting from January 22, 2021 any moderator indication (i.e. timeouts, bans, reports) which has identified content breaking Twitch's Sitewide rules will automatically be referred to Twitch and further actions may be taken against your account by Twitch without direction by us. Further information about the new Hateful Conduct and Harassment policy can be found on Twitch's website.

Ban Appeals

Hopefully information you'll never need.

Dodger and all senior staff, are included in the ban appeals process. The moderator who issued the action is not involved unless the reason for the ban was unclear; this is by design to avoid any situation where they could influence an unban decision. There is a platform log of all our moderators actions and audit this. We value the integrity of all our moderators and the amazing work they do.

Permanent Bans can be appealed and/or discussed by following the guidance on our unbans page. Bans cannot be appealed outside of that guidance. We do not review or consider appeals for temporary punishments, the only exception to this is temporary bans made by our automated moderation systems, however, these will usually be reviewed within 24 hours.

If you would like an explanation of why you were punished this will usually be provided alongside the punishment. However, some of our services do not display the reason upfront, in these cases you can ask for a reason by emailing [email protected] for clarification.

Giving false information in any ban appeal will result in immediate denial of the appeal with no further discussion and no chance of review. Abuse of the unban process, may result in your email being blocked and your email address being reported as malicious, abusive or spam depending on the nature of the emails received.

Discussing bans

Discussion of a punishment, from any channel or community, is considered a disruptive topic.

Discussion or comments about punishments disrupts the natural conversation, and therefore our moderators will remove it. Discussing, commenting on or complaining about a: ban appeal, ban, moderator, or moderation action in a public forum may lead to further punishment.

Furthermore, anyone found to be harassing; members of the community, the moderation team or other streamers, in relation to their punishment(s) will be reported to relevant services and their ability to appeal will be removed indefinitely.

Punishment Evasion

Punishment evasion is not permitted, and will result in a permanent ban for all alternate accounts associated with the evading player. The alternate accounts will remain banned once the original ban expires, and the original ban may also be extended indefinitely. We work closely with relevant platforms and your account may be permanently banned from the entire platform if you are found to be repeatedly evading bans.

Punishment evasion includes, but is not limited to;

  • Creating new accounts
  • Using another already created account
  • Signing up with different details
  • Asking someone to post, message or signal boost on your behalf

We use advanced social listening and analysis tools to identify evasions of a ban. We work with relevant platforms to ensure that access to the entire platform is revoked for all relevant accounts when there is repeated and malicious ban evasion.