Correct, but did Pyromancer essentially NOT apologize for having mods, or did he own up and say it was his mistake and take them down?
Regardless, A mass report in SE's case only gives the GM more visibility on a violation.
Also let's not kid ourselves here - of course streamers are going to be the most visible case of taking action. Who in this forum or multitude of people are gonna stand up for Joe Gunbreaker that had his ACT up and got banned for visibly talking about parsing and evidence of it was in game when he got reported? Most people tell that person "Well you're not supposed to talk about it"
But now streamers had their stuff up, (and while again - I'm not arguing against add ons). VISIBLY had it up for a very large audience. So now is the perfect time for SE to take harder action. Because people WILL actually see that violating their TOS especially with greater visibility on content than before will have consequences.
10 day ban is HARSH, but I'm pretty sure quite a few people started turning off their mods or kept them out of the public eye after that. All this outrage over what's happening is just people being people. They don't want to see a favorite or a person publicly getting hit, but very few stood up when the little guys got punished for ACT or mods and got caught because they allowed themselves to.
I mean let's say that the guy was looking at porn on his computer? In of itself he's a grown adult and if he wanted to look at porn - that's his thing. BUT what if he left the stream rolling so everyone can see his porn collection? What then?
"Oh well he's looking at porn on Twitch, and isn't really hurting anyone" -pffffffft
I mean yeah people will dig and look for mistakes - it's unfortunate side product of being some kind of celebrity.
Okay so if they're deliberately vague how do you ALSO know that they didn't by your own logic?
I mean that's what people have been insinuating so much in this thread. "I didn't know what I got punished for"
The one instance I know that a vague punishment happened was account bans regarding SE's oversight on payment services. But they owned up to it and were supposed to have worked on it.