Profile option for emergency contact field/command for streamers/mods
There have been many times where a streamer has had some sort of emergency while live streaming. The viewers are left confused, panicked, and have no way to help. Situations such as seizures, embolisms/DVT, stroke (which is a real threat for people sitting down all day), and even non-medical emergencies such as someone breaking into their house.
As an epileptic myself, having a seizure on stream is one of my biggest fears. I am not always home with someone else. If I had a medical emergency while streamer, there would be nothing anyone could do or at least not very quickly.
Please implement a private(!) user profile field where streamers have the option to list an emergency contact and/or address in case of emergency. In the case of an emergency, when someone does call the police, I would hope that they can somehow get in contact with Twitch and cooperate to find the emergency contact and send help. Either that or create a command available to moderators of that channel to alert Twitch of an emergency. The contact/address would obviously be private to prevent raiding and harassment.
/emergency was apparently a thing, but isn't anymore (I'm sure because people misused it), but please bring back a similar command that is limited to moderators to make streamers safer.
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FieryAshes commented
I think to keep it from doxxing anybody or being potentially doxxing (doxxing would be required to call 911 on someone's behalf) - I'm going to try to picture it with a lot of grace for what you're saying.
I think the best possible option would be something an emergency button that people could use that would notify all the mods for that channel, but can't be spammed. I love where the heart of this idea is but I also know that there will be people who abuse it, likely in a Venn diagram with people who SWAT streamers. So I think if it was a 1 use at a time with a big cool down thing you could opt into/out of having on your channel at any time, that would send a push notification or something to all of your moderators, something that is not hard to find/notice for the people getting sent them. That notification would either be a generic "Emergency notice: You moderate for soandso and an emergency mode activation has been triggered at [time stamp of when people used the button or whatever]" or customized text by the streamer, "Hey mods, it's soandso - I set up emergency mode to notify all of you if emergency mode was activated in case I have a seizure on stream. Please contact my partner" or something, ya know? I wouldn't necessarily give my emergency information, contact info, address, whatever to all my mods but they do all know who my partner is and who at least 1 of my roommates are, and can reach them via Discord and stuff, then THEY could come check on me or call 911 or whatever. That might be the safest way to implement it. I know that I have some medical issues and I'm trying to figure out a good way to trigger it so that one of my mods/editors could activate that would change my scene for me or would remove my webcam and mic or something. Without having to physically be at my computer, I'd love for them to be able to help if I'm having an emergency in those kinds of ways so that it's not on stream at the least.
So yeah, if there was an OPT IN only setting where you could trigger something that would send a time stamped notification to your mods so that at least one of them can try to reach someone who knows how to check on you or can call 911 for you and know the right info without doxxing you to anyone would be really helpful. I think it'd mostly be useful if it can't be spammed, it doesn't actually give out anyone's information it just gets the right trusted people's attention, and maybe if it put up like an "emergency mode" thing over the stream for non-mods or something so that everyone isn't just... watching and nobody can do anything about it. IDK.
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Crev commented
I love where you heart is at with this one. But I think it may be a potential doxxing situation. Do you have mods that you can trust with your number/address? If so I would put in a panel in your about me, and let them know if something would happen that they should reach out that mod. That way you can safeguard your information from harassment and doxxing. I love that you're thinking of this, but not sure if it can be safely implemented <3
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Anonymous commented
911
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brett morris commented
create a way for mods or chat to get help to a streamer if they are suffering from a medical emergency. As someone who had their life saved by twitch chat recently i can't tell you how much this would be appreciated. I live with epilepsy and during my stream the other day I suffered a grand mal seizure. luckily people in chat where able to get in touch with my wife and emergency services to send help to me. without them i very well could have died. I am so thankful for the platform twitch provides and wish that there was some sort of way to integrate this into every stream.