This is an idea I had that'd help us moderators ban waves of bots with just one command, rather than having to ban individually. Similar to how in the AutoMod filters we can put wildcards in blocked terms to block variations, I think it would be useful to have that same feature when it comes to banning usernames. A lot of bots tend to have similar names but with different strings on the end, and adding wildcards would let us ban all accounts starting with the string they have in common.

For example, if there were a wave of bots with names starting with "abcdefg" and then a string of characters, instead of having to go through and ban "abcdefg4ttge", "abcdefg34tgsg"... etc., a mod could just type in "/ban abcdefg" and all accounts starting with "abcdefg_" would be banned ( is the wildcard character).

I'd like to see a "Safe User Chat List" As it currently is I am being plagues by bot accounts spammers and griefers. I know I can add a few people to VIP and Mod, but those were folks that have occasionally subscribed. This means I no longer get the occasional sub from them. Due to the current griefer/bot garbage I've had to set my chat to subscriber only.

If I had a Safe user Chat-list I could add people to, to allow them to chat then they coudl still donate, and even when not subbed still chat.
We need some solutions to the griefers.
I get about 4 to 6 followers daily of a variation of the same name, ( these used to spam my chat channels before I locked it down to subonly ) Now, they are going as far to spam follows on my moderators too.

Too many messages in chat make the stream spammy and makes it hard for streamers to see what is going on.

It also makes it hard for viewers to hold conversations with each-other or even follow what is happening.

If viewers could stay in smaller chat groups, they could hold actual conversations in those groups.

And if those groups could upvote comments, the most-voted comments could be made visible for all users in every group, working like a spam filter in which only the good comments are made visible for everyone, reducing spam drastically.

Link to UI concept: https://medium.com/@msnabunabu/streaming-chat-concept-use-viewer-groups-to-stop-the-spam-b8b11c2ccf55

Imagine it like going to watch a movie with a group of strangers, talking about things between yourselves, while the top-voted messages get sent to a bigger audience (and the streamer) to interact with.

Since Twitch's chat is based off of IRC, in theory this should be somewhat simple.

There would be a section in the Twitch dashboard under moderation where you could go and view the chat logs either for individual streams, or for certain dates, or use wildcards/keywords/filters/tags to find what you are looking for.

This would help with moderating your chat, and make sure people were not abusing others while you're offline or away.

I've heard that posting Twitch chat logs is against TOS or something, so you would have to outline restrictions and rules in the TOS and community guidelines when applicable, or perhaps make it that Twitch chat is public and anything you post can be posted elsewhere, etc.

The current solutions for this are running an IRC client or Twitch chat client and logging everything to a text file with no real search functionality, so you just end up reading for hours just to make sure one person didn't curse too many times or whatever. Bots have tried to do it, but rate limiting and lack of functionality have often kind of made that also not an elegant or practical solution.

I also could have sworn this was even announced as a feature that was already coming, but I saw no mention of it anywhere else so I thought I'd bring it up.

Lemme know your thoughts, feedback, etc.

Thanks for reading, happy streaming.

Twitch policy requires the chat to be moderated at all times, which is why trolls tend to hate-raid a Twitch channel's chat, then report it to get that channel banned and at the time of writing, it is 100% legitimate, a current threat and the only way around that is to put your chat in emote-only mode.

The "Close Chat" feature I am suggesting ends that. Under this feature, channel editors and owners may use the /closechat command to shut down the chatroom, preventing all users from sending messages in the chat, and only the channel editors and owners may use the /openchat command to re-open the chatroom.

Additionally, there will also be a setting under the "Stream" section of the Twitch channel settings to automatically close the chat after a certain amount of time passes after the stream ends, such as "If the channel is offline for [x] minutes, automatically close the chat". On top of it, there should also be a setting to automatically reopen the chat when the stream goes online. These settings will make it easier to re-open and close the chat without adding on an additional step to starting and stopping streams.

This feature will protect the chat from malicious figures in unmoderated times, allows for more flexibility for the streamer on when and if to open the chat, protects against TOS violations using this new trend of hate raids, and overall I believe this will benefit the Twitch community greatly.