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Con History of admin abuse, and poor responses from staff
In the past, Twitch has had multiple incidences of site admins abusing their authority. The most notable event was related to admin 'Horror' banning multiple accounts for personal reasons in November 2013. The initial response from the Twitch team was to defend the admin, exacerbating the situation.
Con Muting of streams tagged with ContentID-like system
As of August 6th, 2014, Twitch has imposed a ContentID-like system to detect copyright infringement in the audio of videos on the site. As a result, a surprising number of videos have had large segments, or the entire video automatically muted, even for just playing the in-game audio, regardless of whether or not the streamer has the rights to play that audio.
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Con Stream delay of up to 60s
Since an update in late 2013, streams have a delay of up to 60 seconds, in order to help improve video quality across the site. While this isn't likely to effect large eSports events, it has a severe negative impact on streamers who directly interact with their viewers.