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This is something that occurs on twitch streams sometimes. While it can be educational for users to see why they were banned, some appeals are just attention seeking. Occasionally though it exposes the banned user’s or worse a victim users personal information, (eg mental health issues, age, location) and can lead to both users being targeted and bad behaviour by the audience. For example Bob is banned for bad behaviour towards Alice (threats, doxxing), by making that public you are not just impacting Bob, but could also put Alice at risk.


If both Alice and Bob are being truly nasty to each other, engaging in mutual trolling, etc., then I think that would be fair game.

If it's only one of them being nasty, then I don't see why some third person would dox the recipient?

And if they do so regardless, they would also get punished for obvious bad behaviour.




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