Best/Cheap Viewers on cutt.ly/........
In recent months, a number of fake and bot accounts have been spamming messages saying "Best Viewers on cutt.ly/........" or "Cheap Viewers on cutt.ly/........" . They are posting fake links that lead to fake follower websites that, by suspicion, would lead to hacks and other people's accounts becoming compromised. In Mod View, under Modes, and in Blocked Terms, I tried listing "Best Viewers on cutt.ly/", "Best Viewers," and "Cheap Viewers" as blocked terms in hopes of preventing future fake accounts from spamming the same message. But this has not worked at all.
Dear Twitch Support, you need to buckle down on these fake and bot accounts spamming these same fake followers messages that are plaguing smaller or lesser known channels' chats. Although there are some automated Nightbot or Wizebot accounts that can help with the bans, we need a security measure that would prevent such messages from being posted at all in the first place.
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Problem with these bots is the fact that they are not using proper "characters."
So if you manually type in the words to block them, it won't have an effect. You have to copy-paste their specific text, as it is a different font than that which we can see and use in chat.
So to block these, what you do is, copy the entire thing the bot says: (example)
"Best Viewers on cutt.ly/........"
and paste the words individually and in pairs, like:
Best Viewers
Viewers on cutt.ly/
cutt.ly/Something like this.
Sometimes just blocking the link works, but they often change it almost immediately or have several links as backup.It *would* be nice if Twitch prevented non-Ascii characters from being used in chat entirely, or give streamers the option to prevent the usage of such on their channels.