I get that the original idea of VIP badges was to recognize valuable members of a streamer's community, but the actual use of it is different in many cases and it is instead often used to give the streamer a better way to recognize users of a certain significance in chat.
While that may often also include valuable community members, the main use is often to highlight real life friends, acquaintances, family members, other streamers, ... and more.

The problem with that is the limit of 100 VIP slots that is reached at the highest level, and while that might be enough for new or smaller streamers, that amount will quickly become an annoyance for those that have been on Twitch for a long time.

The only choice left is to use the moderator role at that point, which in itself creates a lot of other issues: the biggest one being that people that are not actually acting as a moderator of the chat being messaged by regular viewers for all kinds of inquiries that should only be handled by actual moderators, which then forces them to act as a middleman between the viewer and an actual moderator.

I'm a moderator in various bigger chats and this is an issue in almost all of them.

To name an example:

"fuslie" is currently averaging 7-10k viewers at all times, she has been streaming for over 6 years and has made a lot of friends and other connections in that time.
We are currently at the limit of 100 VIP slots (of which almost 90% are real life friends or acquaintances) with an additional around 110 moderators (of which over 95% were only given the role because there are no VIP slots left and only a handful of real moderators).

Conclusion:

It makes no sense to have an unlimited amount of moderator slots while limiting the amount of VIP slots... if there was an actual need for a limit at all, it would make a lot more sense the other way around.
Either way, I'd like for VIP slots to be unlimited too, or at the very least increase the limit by a lot, I'm talking at least 10x of what it is now, so it is almost impossible to ever be reached when used in a "normal" way.

So each streamer would be allowed to set one person in their stream "SUPER MOD" this person has more permissions than normal mods. For example the SUPER MOD would be allowed to mod and demod people from the stream. Another could be the "SUPER MOD" gets a different badge to make them stand out to the people in chat. Also maybe that super mod gets a permanent subscription for that channel. I'm sure there are alot more ways of making this a better idea that i just haven't though of however i think it would actually be a good thing to think about!

TL: DR

Instead of giving someone "editor" or "mod" as a role. Let us give custom permissions to users. (optionally)

Long story.

As someone who has been working on many services/servers like domain servers and game servers like Minecraft Where permission is always a big thing for "users". I would love to see the same here.

Being able to optionally give custom permission instead of roles or rather to expand on the current roles would be great! As there are only 2 roles currently.

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For example, I do don’t mind if mods can change the title. However, the permission “Editing stream info” is only available to editors. But, also giving them “Running commercial break” and many other permissions. I don’t want that. Among other things. I have no choice now besides using a third party bot. I would prefer first-party support.

If you really want to outdo yourself, as a cherry on the cake, split up all the “Edit Stream Info“ items for more customization. <3

Currently users can be given the role of either Editor or Moderator. These roles either give too much permission (editor role), too little permission (moderator) or don't provide permission for certain things at all.

I would propose updated roles (including new ones) that would give streamers more freedom and ease in choosing people in helping them manage their channel.

New roles:

• Stream Manager/Admin: same as current Editor permissions (replace current Editor role - rename)

• Editor: upload videos, download past VODs, reviewing, searching, sorting, and deleting (including mass deleting) clips, setting channel clipping permissions, ability to add markers and all the other things that have to do with VODs or clips. New updated editor role would not have access to running commercial breaks, starting reruns or editing stream info.

• Moderator: can stay the same (maybe include the ability to add VOD markers)

• Designer/Brand Manager: Someone who can edit things such as channel emotes, ability to add other Artists, offline screen, profile banner, profile picture, profile accent color, panels and anything else that is related to the "brand".

• VIP: can stay the same

• Artist: can stay the same

Also it would be good to NOT make these as a hierarchy, so there is no "above all" role. Similar to how editor role works, someone could be an editor & designer, or admin & moderator & designer and so on. It would all be chosen by the owner of the channel.

As an editor, I want a tool to mute audio portions on VODs & still let them expire over time.
It would be fantastic if I could go back to VODs and mute small portions for privacy if someone slips on a real name or too specific personal information or someone on their voice chat says something inappropriate that violates the rules.
I don't want to highlight the entire video all around it in different portions to save it & lose visual content.
It's an epic pain to have to download the entire VOD, mute it in my own software, & then upload it again. Please make this easier for me.

Add a "Testing Mode" for those given mod permissions on a channel.
Currently, only admin/channel creators can manage emotes, channel points, alert gifs, etc. but many times, someone else creates custom gifs and images for the creators. It would be very useful if mods could activate a "testing mode" that allows them to manage emotes and other channel images (avatar, banner, channel icons, etc.) unofficially (doesn't save, but can see how the channel will look with the new images.) This would be useful because it would make artists jobs easier if they need to test the pixels sizes and resolution on twitch.

Example: I am a friend of a streamer and am his mod, I am an artist/animator and have never worked with Twitch before, it would be very helpful (and put less stress on the creator) if I was able to upload the images I create to test if they are done right and how they will look without constantly bothering the creator to download, upload, manage, and save them. When I am done seeing how everything would look, the changes would not be saved. This would then require the admin to simply implement the changes personally afterwards.

This type of "testing mode" could also be useful for unaffiliated channels to test the same thing as well, but one thing at a time. Thank you for reading, sincerely ~ Artist trying her best to be helpful.