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Chat messages visible only for Mods and Streamer.

Sometimes as a mod you need to tell something quick to other mods or to the channel streamer and you have to rely on other platforms like Discord or Twitter (or whispers) which makes it slow and tedious.

It would be great to write something in chat and make it visible only for other mods and the streamer, maybe a pinned message for 30 seconds on the same area where Hype trains and other important things appear.
The streamer could enable/disable this feature and the time to make this messages available.
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  • SupergirlII commented  ·   ·  Report

    Im a mod and this will be so helpful.
    Sometimes you need to tell something important and fast, but streamer usually don't check discord or twitter while keeping up with the chat.

    if not in chat, maybe like a private chat where only mod and streamer can see, like in the mod view

    please twitch <3

  • NetworkJeff commented  ·   ·  Report

    I would love to see a mods only chat option in the widgets in modview for mods so mods can communicate with each other especially for big channels that have large amounts of mods
  • doktorteethbetternbetter commented  ·   ·  Report

    SUMMARY
    unlike most of the other "chat highlighting" ideas/complaints this idea is for a moderator tool

    it would be a button available in Moderator Mode alongside the time out and ban buttons next to each comment in the chat.

    The purpose of it is to ensure that other mods and the streamer notice that particular chat.

    USAGE
    for the average streamer the most common usage of this would be for one mod to warn other mods to watch a particular person in the chat. maybe that person is "testing the water" by making increasingly escalating comments, but has not "crossed the line" yet.

    another example of usage would be during a q&a stream, where mods might potentially want to highlight specific questions for the streamer to address. for example on a Deep Astronomy stream, a mother asked a question for her astronomy loving 8yr old child, and Tony the streamer almost didn't notice in spite of my highlighted messages and whispers which he wasn't reading trying to draw his attention to that particular question among the many others... being able to highlight it as a mod would have made it stand out amongst all the other questions for the guest.

    as such this type of highlighting should stand out in a way that is different from other forms of highlighting, and maybe having an accompanying list.

    chat moves so fast sometimes that there's not time to type something out so being able to just click a button next to a comment could make all the difference.

    I've heard of some science communication streamers custom programming a bot to read the chat and create a list of all of the questions. this would be kind of like that but more flexible and targeted in its usage