By forcing users to be public with bit donations, you put them at risk for harassment and begging from other users. Its quite the opposite impact then what you claim it is.

I have stopped cheering for many channels since this feature was removed.
This should've been a toggle per channel instead of blanket deprecation.
Anyway, anonymous cheering did not allow attaching any message that could lead to abuse.
In the end this just hurts content creators and ultimately Twitch itself.

This should be a toggle that streamers can decide for themselves to turn on or off. While it's understandable that some users do not feel comfortable with anonymous bit donations, there's plenty of people (including myself) with audience members who vastly preferred the anonymous support option, and they're all good faith users. Twitch can still keep track of anonymous donations on their end without us ever knowing who it was, but removing it outright is not the best answer for protecting people.

Agree with other people who say this should be a toggle option. If a streamer feels uncomfortable they should have the ability to disable anonymous cheering, but if this isn't an issue for others then they should have the ability to keep it on. This directly hurts streamers and viewers who wish to contribute without direct acknowledgement, and the toggle would be a way to make everyone happy.

Also, if this is a situation due to anonymous cheering being abused, along with a TOGGLE, perhaps a Twitch-side cheering log or bit report system? Not sure how it would work but trying to find something that meets common ground would be nice for the community.

Removing this feature while saying it somehow protects the community makes no sense. Anonymous bits did not allow a message, name, or image to be sent with the donation. In terms of frequency a streamer can already set minimum bits thresholds for bits donations and alert thresholds for bit donations. With this in mind this feature cannot be used to harass a streamer in any way.

At the same time you've left in Anonymous subs which actually display the giftee account name. This means an anonymous user can gift to an offensively named account and it displays in both chat and on stream.

If you are trying to remove "abuse" you've got it entirely backwards and all you've done is hurt our monetization options.

Give streamers the option to opt out if they feel the need to, but make it so they're also free to re-enable it, don't make it a one time on-off thing.

If we can create options to customize raids, why not create options to customize bits? Give streamers the power to customize their community interactions.

Make it a configurable choice then to allow anonymous bits or not.

Please make this a toggle. Give creators the power and choice to either have anonymous cheering on or off. This decision is hurting us. If it's due to abuse, then will this eventually extend to removing the ability to gift subs anonymously as well? Please reconsider. There are plenty of people who don't want recognition for their generosity. Let creators decide how they want to run their broadcasts.

This should be a toggled feature for streamers. While it's wonderful that Twitch is trying to keep creators safe, a lot of creators depend on the anon bits (and subs). We should not punish everyone for the poor actions of a few.

The better option is to make this optional for a streamer, much like the raid function.

If you don’t want people to abuse the 3 instance trigger for hype trains, just don’t allow anonymous cheering to count towards that. That’s the only way I can see it being abused. Stop deleting things you don’t feel like fixing.

Please restore anonymous cheering and address the issue with an option for streamers to accept or refuse them. If we can filter who can chat by hundreds of potential combinations of settings, a simple yes/no slider to permit anonymous cheers is obviously the answer here.

Could you please make anonymous cheering a feature that can be enabled and disabled on a per streamer basis? There are many folks who have loyal community members who like to cheer anonymously once in a while to avoid having pressure on them from the rest of the community, or even the streamer (some people just don't want to be thanked). Meanwhile, the streamers who have been harrassed by anonymous cheering can disable it and feel much more safe in their streams. It doesn't make sense to keep the ability to gift subs anonymously, but not have it for bits.

Please restore anonymous cheering.

Many viewers prefer to cheer anonymously. Anonymous cheerers are in my top 10 for overall support from cheers. I'm not happy about this change.

Streamers can already prevent abuse by:

a) disabling sound and TTS alerts
b) setting a minimum bits amount at the cheermote or message level

Anonymous cheers don't even include messages and it's just the anonymous username that's used (unlike follow-bots which often include offensive usernames with slurs).

Alternatively, Twitch can build a configuration feature into the product, allowing streamers to opt-in to disabling anonymous cheers in their channel. This would be much better than disabling it for everyone.

Please restore anonymous cheering.

Make it a configurable choice then to allow anonymous bits or not.

And be more open about your plans to deprecate bits or not. That sentence just added more fire to the rumor mill.

I’m interested to know how someone can abuse this feature?
Also, removing a feature instead of “fixing” the issue isn’t the solution. If it has a weakness fix it. Or like many have said. Give us the option to use it or not.

Yeah no that answer ain't it. Removing a service for all when some are affected shouldn't be the jerk reaction. Instead; allow streamers to opt in or opt out of anonymous cheering.

You can set your own minimum number of bits per message per channel already. And people can't send messages with anonymous bits. And I believe you could always ban AnAnonymousCheerer if you didn't want them at all. (Altho a checkbox in the settings to disallow would still be better.) And Twitch always knew who was spending the bits even if the streamer didn't, so they can look into it if there's still somehow a kind of harassment happening after all that. So I'm not sure how removing the option for ALL streamers to receive them is required to increase 'safety', that adding an option for streamers to turn them off wouldn't accomplish better. Vague explanation about "safety" doesn't sound legit so far. Unless... you're planning to get rid of bits anyway. Then of course it makes sense to not add any new bits related features.

I'm a little confused how anon bits are being abused. And if this is the case, why not make "anon cheering" something an individual streamer can Enable/Disable? Disabling them globally is throwing the baby out with the bath water :(

Forcing attention on people who do not want it is not a good idea. It may stop them from helping the streamer in general. Make it optional, don’t make it mandatory.