There is a checkbox in "Channel & Videos" tab of your channel settings, called "Opt out of globally banned words filter".

I had it enabled since I started streaming a month ago. And today I discovered, that it does not work - some words, like "tranny" for example, are still replaces with asterisks to everyone else in chat. I was disappointed.

I despise any form of censorship. When I come to other streams and I see their chat rules "Be nice, no spam..." - I respect the rules. Its their choice. Why can't Twitch respect my own choice to treat my viewers as responsible adults, who require no mouth gags?

I am adult, my channel is marked "Not for younger audience".
Can my chatters and I have our freedom if speech back please?

In streams where there can be as many as 10,000 people in one channel, chat at times can be difficult to moderate with so many messages being sent and keep track of user's behaviour. It would be helpful if mods or the streamer could click on a specific username in chat and see their message history. At times it may not be just for one message that may be ban worthy, but just for their attitude i.e. XxReApErxX has only ever chatted to comment on the streamer's bad gameplay. While one message may not be ban-worthy, if this was all they were doing, some channels may just decide to do so to improve the mood of the chatroom.
It's also useful if a user wanted to challenge a ban, they could point to their message history, and a moderator could reverse the ban if the user has for the most part been participating positively in chat. Or they could point out how the banned user has only thrown insults in chat or whatever they were doing that was against the rules of the channel.
You can just do it by going into a vod and finding the specific time a certain user last posted. But that takes guesswork and time, which frankly usually isn't worth the bother and takes attention away from the chat in the present. The method is already there but the UI just makes it tedious to do so and involves so much guesswork. It would be so useful for moderating if we could do this.

I think it would be a great idea if the streamer or moderators could put a message/note above the chat to notify people. Whether it's temporarily for a minute or left there for the whole day.

Especially with bigger streamers who have a chaotic chat. A note or announcement can quickly be pinned at the top and everyone can quickly click on it and/or read it (a little pin symbol would be fitting I suppose).

Additionally, it can get annoying for streamers to have to answer the same questions over and over again. That's why I think a little note at the top is a good idea. The viewers can view that instead of typing a certain command in the chat or bothering the streamer.

I suppose a quick way to do this would be to type /pin xxx
Example: /pin Tomorrow is the subscriber tournament! Don't miss out!
Example: /pin Yes I have played (insert game here) already stop asking :)

Thank you in advance if this gets taken into consideration.

Peace, Vorty

This is another anti-troll feature to combat trolls who evade chat bans by just creating new accounts. Whenever new users sign up for an account, they have to verify their account with a phone number, much like how Gmail and Hotmail verify new accounts. Each phone number can only be used to verify an address X times per year (for example, 3 per year).

This will make it harder for trolls to constantly create new accounts to evade chat bans. You can even give broadcasters the option of preventing people who haven't verified their accounts with a phone number from chatting in their channel, and sending them whispers and messages.

One of my Twitch friends inadvertently blocked me. He would send me whispers, but I couldn't reply. Every time I attempted to reply, I would see the message "That user's settings prevent them from receiving this whisper." It would be helpful if a similar message was displayed for a Twitch user whispering someone he or she has blocked - "You're whispering someone whom you've blocked. That person is unable to whisper back to you."

Also, it seems as though blocking someone from whispering automatically blocks receiving a DM from them. In situations where someone was blocked inadvertently, it would be helpful if it was a separate step to block receiving DMs from them.

This could be a customizeable badge that only shows up locally (other users cant see it). There are a few ways this can be useful such as:

1. Being able to mark friends so you can see if they are chatting in the same room as you.




2. Tagging yourself so your own messages can be seen easier in screenshots.




3. Tagging the person you are chatting with in a busy channel so you can easily see their messages before they get buried under lines of spam. (Ablility to make it temporary maybe)

If you need to you can have it saved as a browser cookie so it is stored on the users machine so you could save server storahe space. Also if the badge is not customizeable there will eventually be a userscript that will let people change it.

I would like to have the ability to enable an option where new viewers to a stream can see previous messages posted in chat. There are times when viewers may come into a chat, but have no context, with what the streamer is discussing as they are unable to see previous messages in chat. There are also times where regular viewers may have to temporarily leave the stream, but then when they return only a little bit later, they are unable to see what was previously posted in chat. I know other streaming services, such as YouTube and Mixer, by default, allow viewers to see messages previously posted in chat when someone new joins a stream.