Add the ability to tag messages. Twitch could feature some default tags, then allow the streamer and mods to feature other tags. They can be permanent or temporarily featured. Everyone can filter chat in various ways,

The main reason why I want this is because massive streamers like xQc have hundreds of comments every second. You can never hold an actual conversation or ask a question there.

These tags are basically an alternative to an earlier idea I had, which is to introduce different channels, like you have in discord for example. This way you can categorize everything and split that massive stream of messages into various smaller ones where everyone is talking about similar/the same things.

Problems this could solve:

• Spam overtaking chat (you could force users to add the spam tag, and if they don't, mods could ban them or permanently enable that tag for them).
• Pronouns (Everyone who wants to, can add tags that address their pronouns).
• Message threads (Every message can have a random internal tag that will represent a thread. Replies can then add that tag to form a reply to that message).
• Account verification (Some tags could be automatic, meaning the user has no control over it but instead it is controlled by a 3rd party. Tag permissions, so to speak).
• Spoiler tagging (With spoiler tag).
• Pinned messaging (Mod-controlled "pinned" tag).
• Twitch censoring (This way, you could ban words and censor people, but not force everyone to abide by your standards. This also makes it clear to advertisers and such what side you're on, without turning down freedom of speech. Best of both worlds.).

It also provides some new fancy ways of dealing with things:

• Messages containing URLs, NSFW stuff or things that don't follow channel guidelines in other ways can be tagged so that people can just filter them out instead of having them be banned. This is of course, entirely up to how the channel wants to handle this.
• Subscribers and moderators can be automatically tagged as such, removing the need of the image prefixes and replacing them with a more generic and customizable system.
  • Because mods can give users tags, they can also create new roles like 'trusted'.

Implementation features:

• Add a random, unique tag to every message, that is hidden by default.
  • Can be used to reply to a message and thus start a thread.

Streamer/mod side features:

• Disable tags in their chat altogether to provide the current twitch experience.
• Add tags to messages.
• Add permanent/temporary tags to messages from specific users.

Client-side features (no server costs):

• Disable tags altogether.
• For the unique message tags:
  • Add a simple toggle button to show or hide such a thread
  • Add another quick-access option to hide all replies to threads
• Add a "More info" button on a message so people can see all info about it and even share the message directly with others.
• Add censoring rules (meaning messages will show if you click them once)
• Add hiding rules (meaning messages won't be shown)
• Add highlighting rules (meaning messages will pop out more)
• Add tag hiding rules (To hide some tags, not users)

Client-side advanced features:

• Have tagging settings per stream and for your entire account. Also make them transferrable (Export/import to a text representation like base64 or text that makes actual sense)
• Add "virtual tags" which will be added on the client-side to messages that have either all of, or one of a set of tags. This will allow users to set up very powerful filtering rules. They can also be used to create aliases that replace longer tags.

Ideas for Twitch Featured Tags
Verified, 18+, Twitch-Approved (for messages that don't include words banned by twitch)

That's it for now, I will keep adding to these lists when I come up with new ideas or find good ones in your replies.

Twitch, if you're a fan of this idea, I'm very down to join your team and try to work on an implementation. I have some ideas in mind already for how to implement this and I'm actually really looking for a job.

When streaming using my VPN, my chat constantly disconnects and reconnects. This does not happen when VPN is off, and is not actually a connection issue as I never drop frames. I could ignore the constant spamming of "welcome to the chat room" but the problem is that I miss chats from my community. Being a small streamer, this is unacceptable as I read and respond to everyone. Being a female streamer, turning off my VPN is not an option. I do understand that twitch is trying to do something about people using VPN's to get around channel bans. But your content creators need to be able to use VPN's without it interfering with your site, for their own safety.

Users have no purpose in seeing when a comment has been moderated. The text should not simply have a stamp placed over it that shows everyone it was removed (social embarrassment pressure) but should be removed entirely from chat. It would allow for fewer data transfer to individuals who are performing as expected. It would reduce chat congestion. It would promote better engagement by streamers as they wouldn't have to scope though garbage comments to reply. If the message sender needs to be notified a whisper could be applied to them suggesting their comment was removed. No further information is necessary. Overall this "feature" is intrusive, retracts from the social experience, and promotes bad behavior by constant reminders that it gets attention.

a filter for chat (like slow mode) but instead of slowing down the time a chatter can send a message, all people can send messages at whatever speed they want but only a random few actually go through. This would help bigger creators who have high viewership, because even if they have 30 second slowmode on, there is still thousands of people who can send a message within that time. This also helps creators who don't want to use 'money mode' but would still like their chat to be viewable. There could be a setting to determine how many messages go through (ex. 1/2,1/5,1/10,1/25, etc.) like how slowmode has different lengths of time it can be set to. For creators with a lot of subs, sub only mode doesn't even help when it comes to spam. They have to resort to emote only, but that doesn't cut down on spam, only change the type. A 'Chat Roulette' (or other name for the feature) would be helpful to all bigger creators for engagement and moderation purposes.