to say someone can just make every viewer a moderator to bypass it is I'm sorry but just ridiculous. no one is going to do that. in large channels with 1k plus viewers mods being exempt is even more critical, and no way anyone would add over 1k mods. but mods 100% need to be except from ads. the fact we are not still is pathetic at best.

Moderators play an important role in keeping chat safe, welcoming, and free of spam. However, when ads play, moderators can miss important moments in chat, making it harder to respond quickly to spam, harassment, or viewers who need help.

Not every moderator can afford to subscribe to every channel they volunteer for, especially if they moderate multiple communities. Moderating is already something they do to support streamers without expecting anything in return.

An ad-free experience could be limited to moderators while they’re actively moderating, or be an optional perk that streamers can enable for their mod team. This would help moderators stay focused on chat without interrupting Twitch’s overall advertising model.

I believe this would improve moderation across the platform, benefit streamers, and create a better experience for viewers as well.

Is the amount of Super Mods (Hammer) also endless like Normal Mods (Sword), then this could be a criteria for ad-less streams.

In the real world it would be confusing, if the security guys for an event, bar or club must pay the entrance fee or must wearing noice canceling head phones.

As much as I like this idea I don't think Twitch can do that because we currently have no limits on amount of moderators, so if this change is implemented it would be possible to make every follower a mod and not have any ads.

My modified suggestion: allow mods in MOD VIEW to hear the stream and see the chat despite the ads

Add another to the pile... and adding "garnering interest" on it to maybe shut people up doesn't do it.

I don't have many mods and really only have 1 working "full time". He's disabled and can't afford a sub, and honestly I don't have the money to be giving subs to my mods so they can do their job effectively (still a small streamer and am disabled myself). Being able to have my mods be able to see and hear my stream at all times would make my work as a streamer a lot easier to do effectively and can help keep the stream running smoothly. If someone comes in and does something but I know who they are (even if they're new to my community) and want to let my mods know it's ok, I can't do that well if they're in an ad and my hands are full/busy and don't have time to type in that they're fine. And vice versa. I NEED to communicate to my mods verbally and ads don't help at all.

To person who said stagger ads for mods, yeah that's great but most of the time I'm the only mod present

I would also really appreciate having this for mods. What I do though is that I plan my ads every hour for 3 minutes. I run them myself so I can control it.

As a mod on some channels, we cannot appropriately gauge what's happening on stream if we have ads in our faces for up to 3 minutes at a time. Mods are there to manage the chat content and keep the streamer and viewers safe, and we can't do that if we can't see the stream.

Please take off ads for stream mods, as previously stated, we need to be able to hear the streamer in case they need us for something. I at one time was a mod for at least 3 different streams so getting ads for each one is monotonous. It should be implemented regardless of if the moderator is subbed or not. Some of us don't have the means to subscribe every month just to get rid of ads. Please, please implement this.

remove ads for stream moderators, even when they don't have subs. we have teams of people, and almost all of them are working for free, and they *need* to be able to hear the streamer at all times, especially if the streamer is making a direct request for their mods. Many mods are multi mods, and many streamers have many mods. It's unrealistic for many mods to put out $5 + taxes every month to every stream they mod for, as well as many streamers to front that cost for all their mods every month. require the sub for emotes and whatever other perks, but at least disable ads for the moderator role.

remove ads for stream moderators, even when they don't have subs. we have teams of people, and almost all of them are working for free, and they *need* to be able to hear the streamer at all times, especially if the streamer is making a direct request for their mods. Many mods are multi mods, and many streamers have many mods. It's unrealistic for many mods to put out $5 + taxes every month to every stream they mod for, as well as many streamers to front that cost for all their mods every month. require the sub for emotes and whatever other perks, but at least disable ads for the moderator role.

Ohyah! So agree with this! It so frustrating to watch ads in channels I mod, makes it harder to mod. And not everyone have the money to sub to all strimers all the time.

yeah i'd argue that an option to disable ads for mods isn't enough, and that ads shoudn't be played at all in the moderator view. like many others have said, being able to see and hear what's happening on stream is important to performing moderator duties and getting a preroll ad when you load up the page or a randomly getting midroll ads is incredibly disruptive.

i see some people with "redeem x amount of channel points to become moderator" things with their channel points system.
And if twitch is reading this, yes please limit the moderator numbers as another person or two has mentioned already. i think it would be a great idea to put a limit on something that currently unlimited and exploitable. Too many mods going around playing mini-sheriff thinking they're something. as insulting as it sounds its really at the end of the day just voluntary janitor work. There SHOULD be a limit on how many users a stream can give a mod-role position to. And if they want more mods, then they can pay and extra fee for exclusive additions to the number of mods they wish to have. TWITCH PLEASE make unlimited mods COST MONEY! this can help combat the problem of people exploiting the mod thing to get around not watching adverts. it is a nice idea specially for you twitch and for all the twitch community to enjoy!

you know it makes sense

If a streamer is willing to risk promoting people to moderator without vetting them, then they deserve what's coming. I don't see streamers using adding folks as moderators as an actual viable tactic to avoid adverts. Limiting moderator numbers would only give us a new problem to contend with, let's not give them ideas now.

> More over, I’d also think if they could, they’d make it so that mods don’t get ads at the same exact time. Where you will always have one mod who is available and not blacked out by ads.

That wouldn’t work for streams with a single moderator on duty, and would need to account for bots, not all of which are as easily recognizable as Moobot or Nightbot. And you would still get situations where the only mods not seeing a batch of ads are actually AFK, and those actively moderating are ad-locked.

Limited moderators could be a solution but it would be tricky to find numbers that work for everyone fairly. There are streams that can do just fine with a single moderator, others that need over a dozen to cover all shifts for a particularly active streamer and multiple bots, and it’s not all correlated to viewership size.

The only way I see them doing this is limiting the amount of mods per stream based on viewers or followers to the channel as well as how often the channel is live. Much like a tiered plan.

Tier 1 - 3 mods

Tier 2 - 5 mods

Tier 3 - 9 mods

Tier 4 - 12 mods

Tier 5 - 15 mods

More over, I’d also think if they could, they’d make it so that mods don’t get ads at the same exact time. Where you will always have one mod who is available and not blacked out by ads.

IF they were to modify how ads are used on mods and editors, I think this would be the way they would go about it.

At the end of the day it comes down to numbers and ad revenue.

For the record I do agree that mods shouldn’t have ads at all, however, I just don’t see twitch doing it because then money would be lost and streamers would abuse it by making an unlimited amount of mods to get around ad breaks.

I also know when I’m modding in the mod or editor dashboard I don’t get ads. At least I haven’t seen any.

The other way would be to instead of full screen ads, mods only receive banner ads. That would be ideal too.

I agree with ArrogantLeo that there isn’t much room for compromise here. At a BARE minimum, ads should be muted for moderators so we can hear a streamer’s instructions and important announcements, but many of us also need to react to things happening silently on-screen and that’s just not possible when the stream is reduced to a tiny thumbnail.

We’re already volunteering our time (and more), we shouldn’t have to pay to do it effectively on top.

AGREED! at times ads can be really disruptive and get right in the way at the worst time possible. Either no adds for mods, or give mods the option of when to view them, so that it doesnt get in their way. Missing verbal ques from the streamer i see has already been mentioned, but another thing i'd like to bring to the table, is clipping! its much harder to clip when an ad pops up, you become forced to wait till the advert ends, and by then most of the clippable thing has gone and its too late and you're forced to go back into VODS if u want to clip it, and thats only if the streamer has vods enabled. Or a streamer could want something clipped and not be able to do it themselves due to being handsful or whatever and ask mods in chat to clip, but the request gone unheard due to the advert. Why even give adverts audio? how about a compromise of muting the advert instead so we can still hear the streamer? instead of just taking over the streamer and over writing everything with the nuisense adverts. it's a pitty refreshing does'nt skip the ad, like it does on youtube lol. Adblock for twitch would be nice, and the way things are going, we're being forced to consider making such a thing

Adverts for moderators shouldn't even be a possibility. It directly impacts our ability to be effective, particularly if the streamer needs to address us verbally. I moderate for a few channels with a 'no meta' rule and I need to have full awareness of streams so that I may know what is and isn't meta information.

For me personally, I'm not happy to compromise on this. Adverts shouldn't be forced upon those who are here to help the Twitch community. There's no 'pre-roll ads are fine with me' or 'mid-roll ads aren't that bad'. Adverts that completely interrupt a stream at any point is time taken away from Moderators being effective.