I been seeing a ton of people raiding under 5 viewers as due to a recent change, they don't show up. I feel that that little action that says "all raids " in the settings under channel should be all raids, not only 5 or more ( if it is gonna be 5 or more maybe make it a setting "5 or more raiders" . I feel streamers should be the one to choose if this is a change is something for their channel.

That's my personal opinion I just feel horrible not seeing someone raid when and due to API for Stream labs / Stream elements pulling from the chat ends up not showing it when it does happen.

Limit hosts from showing up in chat unless they have 2 viewers would be another thing as well, since the only way they will have any viewers is if the channel is live at the time or it will show 0-1 viewers.

I did want to say as well since I did see the tweet about raid bot attacks on twitter that it wasn't raids it was host attacks to clear up on that little bit.

My idea would be make it so channels can't raid unless they are Live at the time of raiding that would clear up the bot issue if they are doing raids. ( link to twitch support tweet - https://twitter.com/TwitchSupport/status/1313975539682684929?s=20 )

Thank you for reading this bit of feedback and hope ya have an amazing day!

LinoYeen

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.

Due to an extremely large amount of streamers getting trolled to the point they no longer want to stream, I feel that if someone gets banned/blocked from a streamers chat then they should no longer be able to even view the stream. When the troll types the streamers name into the search bar then that streamers name should not appear, just like how it works on any other site. Allowing the troll to view the stream can still cause stream sniping and other things that gives the troll the incentive to troll and harass even further. Im speaking from experience here. Even though ive had to ban hundreds of accounts I still get the troll making alt accounts and having their username being a family members name or my address. This needs to be sorted asap.

I frequent a twitch channel that has been harassed by a troll persistently for the past 2-3 months. This troll has been evading chat bans by creating multiple accounts.

Recently, when the troll is banned from the chat, he's begun to use the tactic of whispering to other people in the chat room in order to harass them...some of these viewers are even foolish enough to pass on insults from the troll to the broadcaster.

The channel regulars know better than to respond to this troll, and ignore him, but the fact that the troll can still whisper other viewers is especially problematic when new viewers arrive to the channel, because they do not understand that this user is a troll yet. They frequently become targets for the troll, and the chat has to put up with new users asking why this troll is whispering offensive stuff to them, and asking them to pass it along to the broadcaster.

Before whispering was implemented, such harassment wouldn't have been possible from a chat-banned troll, but now it's a thing. If a troll is banned from a chat room, he shouldn't be allowed to whisper anyone else currently in that room.

I don't mean banning a chat-banned user from whispering anybody at all (although that wouldn't be such a bad idea either), but at least prevent him from whispering other chat members while they're in that chat room.

This is similar to the idea of banning abusive troll users at a certain IP address, https://twitch.uservoice.com/forums/310201-chat-messaging/suggestions/7956255-ip-ban-from-channel.

In that request, a Twitch dev gave the following reasons for why such a ban would be hard to implement:

> 1. IPs change. A lot. A broadcaster might lose a significant portion of their audience, and viewers might get confused if there are a lot of banned IPs (such as universities).
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> 2. System load. Looking up a enormous list of IPs to see who is allowed to watch on every single video play is an enormous system load I’m not sure we’re willing to take on.
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> 3. Support costs. “Why can’t I watch X/Y/Z, I don’t know who they are” would come up. Our support isn’t free, and we’d like to be able to focus on issues like passwords, bugs, etc.

I propose something slightly different to get around the problem of IP addresses being an unreliable way to ban toxic, abusive troll users. Rather than ban an IP address from chatting, give individual channels the ability to block all "recently" created accounts from chatting in their channel.

So, for example, give individual channel owners the option of blocking all new accounts created in the last 24 hours from chatting in their channel. After 24 hours, the new accounts are then allowed to chat.

Such a feature would make it harder for persistent trolls to evade chat bans by creating new accounts. It also doesn't depend on a user's IP address, it is address independent.

I mean, some broadcasters, like TotalBiscuit, don't even allow anyone who's not subscribed to chat in their channel, by making chat subscriber only. A temporary chat ban of recently created accounts is like that.

This would make it so that a recently chat-banned troll can't just make a new account and immediately return to trolling a particular channel.

Affiliates should have a global badge that separates them from the rest of the chat as broadcasters.
A broadcaster has that camera badge on their own channel, but when they are on another streamer's channel, they do now own a badge.

That badge will be benefiting working hard Affiliates that socialize in other channels and would help them get followers and gain new supporters. Also as a streamer myself, i would like to know when someone on my channel is a streamer so i can follow them too.

To avoid being overused by people who streamed for a little and then realized it's not for them, twitch can have some requirements to get and maintain the badge such as streaming hours p/month or total hours.

This feature will benefit both affiliates & twitch since revenue may occur from that.
To make things even more fair for the broadcaster that is being visited by "professional chatters", you can also give the option to channel owners to switch on/off broadcaster badge visibility from their chat channel.