Currently, the only way to view people banned from the channel is the channel settings. I think it would be very useful to have some kind of moderator dashboard which displays it as well.

Each entry on the ban list should include: date, current username, mod who performed the action and a space for adding the reason of the ban (editable by the mod and channel editors). It could also be useful if the entry listed up to 5 recent messages by that person posted before getting banned.
The list itself should be searchable by username.
When a user gets unbanned, the entry should stay on the list with some kind of indication that the user is not banned anymore. Additionally, it would be convenient if the unbanning was noted in the entry if the user gets banned again but search feature itself (listing both cases) would be good enough in that situation.

Currently, many channels create lists outside of Twitch to keep track of the bans but with the name change feature being released and no way of checking previous username of the person, it may become more difficult. Ban lists are important to avoid accidental bans and to be able to clear the situation when people ask to be unbanned.

Put policies in place to deal with Suicide and Self Harm

Your current policy that suicide and self harm are a violation of ToS that results in users being banned or suspended is nothing but a bandaid solution that silences people in need of urgent medical attention. Please review these policies, as your platform may be the only place that some people feel comfortable reaching out for help for the first time. Your report feature for Self Harm should enact HELP for the person, not get them a ban. If this is a bot that bans these users, it is even more concerning that you use an automated feature to play with people's lives.

Some suggestions:

1. Remove suicide and self harm from the violation of ToS. People who are suicidal are not the bad guys, let's help them instead.


2. The report feature for self harm should trigger assistance for people, not a ban or suspension.


3. Consider putting people with a background in psychology and mental health on your administration team to assist people when these reports do come through.

Hi there,

I have a quick suggestion about a feature that I think would make the viewing experience infinitely better than what it currently is. My idea is that broadcasters have the ability to upload their audio separately. For example, their voice audio, their in game audio, and then maybe background audio such as music.
From the viewers point of view, this would enable them to adjust the different volumes to their taste within their audio settings for that particular broadcaster. I believe that this would provide a better viewing experience because;
- Viewers have the flexibility to adjust the volumes to their taste
- Broadcasters will no longer have the issue of trying to find an audio setting that suits all of their viewers
- Viewers are able to manipulate their volumes during the stream in order to satisfy their tastes at that particular time. For example, there are often times in streams that I would like to listen just to the voice of the streamer commentating and then listen to my own music without having any background noise from in game sounds or from their broadcasted music.
- Future additions could include "Subscriber only audio" where the broadcaster may want to only speak to their subscribers and nobody else within the stream can hear unless they are subscribed.

Those are some of the benefits off the top of my head that I think could make the viewing experience and interaction between broadcasters and their viewers improved greatly. I would imagine that most of the issues that would evolve would be technically based and unfortunately I haven't been able to comment on this as it is not something that I know a whole lot about.

If there is a better section to post this in, please do advise. I was unable to find a particular "Suggestions" section.

Many thanks,
Novak_uk - A frequent twitch user.

I have been in several streams which talk about sports a lot such as BJPofficial, but don't have a category to go under so the often just using the "gaming talk show" category heading which is very misleading and disruptive so i believe that there should be a "sports talk show" category for those who want to talk about sports on stream and not have to go under a false heading and confuse viewer's i also believe there should be an "e sports talk show" category added as well so that people can talk about e sports with out the same problem, thanks : )

This is to prevent the major issue with trolls. a Regular only chat would mean that a person has been WATCHING the stream for a set amount of time before becoming a regular, and is following as well. Not something a bot/troll can follow button and just randomly pop in to troll the next day. We should be able to set the time limit as well like let's say it takes about 4 hours to become regular, I've only found 1 troll that waited an hour after ban to continue trolling, all the trolls I've seen, only troll until the ban happens, and the reports are sent, and since reporting takes so long and cuts into my time of streaming, and my moderators aren't on all the time, it would make things easier to be able to set chat to regular only instead of just the option of sub or no options and being overthrown by attention seeking trolls because their girlfriends give them none... -_- PLEASE GIVE US THIS OPTION! if they don't have any way to troll the streamer, they have no reason to even bother with multiple accounts and no reason to bother coming to twitch for trolling at all! This is getting ridiculously out of hand!

Against Streamsniper !!

A lot of streamer got the problem that streamsniper are going to crash some streams. The get angry very fast and the viewer donthave fun in the sream.
You can ban the streamsniper from chat but i want ban them from my channel.
Better will be an option wich i can choose the ban. Right klick on the Viewer and the Ban. But there shuold be an dropdown menu wich i can choose ban from chat or ban from channel !!
I dont want streamsniper looking my channel. And i need an option wich i can choose that only registerd User can see my stream!
I think this will help against streamsniper !