[RSZC]

Disclaimer - used to work at Twitch.

The policy may make Twitch look stupid, but it's for a pretty good reason - people would get banned, and then just play multiplayer (with voice or even video chat) with their friends who were also streaming. This effectively allowed them to continue to stream and interact with their audience despite their 'ban.'

Agreed that people often get banned on purpose as a way of keeping their name in the news.

[thatguy0900]

Wouldn't they not get paid still though? Or does the friend just send all donations their way? I can't imagine subbing to someone because they have a person in the lobby who I liked

[treesprite82]

At the extreme: Keemstar has long been banned from Youtube, but remained prominent through DramaAlert which is not technically his channel.