Streamer Ability to Remove Founder Badges
As a lot of streamers are probably aware there are a lot of people who came by streams at the start who may have subscribed and got the founder badge but no longer show up, this means people who do still show up but missed out on the badge due to being the 11th sub etc can not have it, or if a partners channle 26th sub cannot have it.
I think the streamer having the ability to remove the founder badge from a user and have it go to the next available user would be very beneficial so they go to users who do show up still, do still subscribe and therefore are not going to waste.
Hey y'all! Just wanted to give an update on the Founders Badge improvements made. We recently announced on our Twitch Support Twitter that we were rolling back this feature to fix an issue some users were experiencing. We’re happy to say that the improvements we made to Founder’s badges are back online! You can learn more about this change here: https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/founders-badge
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Nico commented
Please.
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Annjoy commented
YES PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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CharaCouture commented
Absolutely want this to be a thing. My second ever sub was a former mod who wound up causing myself, my mod team, and other streamers months of emotional and mental trauma, so now that we have the ability to see them in our dashboard, I'd much prefer to *not* have to see that person's name and/or face there.
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Mikus64 commented
I agree with this completely. There are many reasons for removing founders badges. Banning people, people who don't show up anymore, friends who were gifted a sub in affiliate celebrations who never even had the chance to subscribe for themselves and earn one.
I can imagine it could be very difficult to simply pass a badge onto the next person in line who has ever subscribed, but even if the only option is to open up founders badges to brand new people who subscribe next, it is still better for everyone than leaving a list of 2 old friends and 8 other people who never show up anymore.
Ways to prevent abuse could be that you cannot remove people who are still subscribed, and you cannot remove someone for 60 to 90 days who has a new founder's badge. Please let us remove founders and allow new people in. It is fun to see founders in chat and it's disappointing when they slowly disappear until founder status is irrelevant. -
AstralGeminorum commented
I think this is a great idea to be able to remove peoples founders badges if they are banned/blocked.
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VividFlash commented
Like many have said so far, I would love the option for people who are now banned from my channel to be removed from my founders list and have their badge given to someone more deserving. It would be great if someone automatically lost their 1st badge if they get banned from your channel
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BadSideofBright commented
Really wish this would be a thing, since 3 of the people having the Founder Badge of my channel are people that emotionally abused me and they didnt deserve it at all... If I ban someone from my channel and life, I dont want them to see in this list of founders, just so the they taunt me just by being there...
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Goatllama commented
I'm rather amused by how many people had to ban their "founding" members. Sad but funny.
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JaxDagger commented
How is this not a thing yet? i have 10 founders 4 banned and 5 inactive for over 2 years, it would be lovely if the founders that are still around could actually have them bumped up, or ATLEAST to those above the super inactives, if you aren't around for over a year or two surely that is enough to warrant moving it
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ThroggTV commented
I’ve wanted this for a very long time, I saw they now show us who is our founders which is cool , I only have 1 founder that still watches me. the rest are all trolls or people that only subbed that one time
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SporeRose commented
It did have another uservoice post merge with it and carry the votes over, so someone definitely noticed the noise, and acknowledged it on the support Twitter.
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CashmereKilt commented
Kinda crazy this post has been here for over a year, has 529 votes and 60 comments yet there's no addition of the feature or any tell that it will be added. Give the people what they are begging for i beg of thee :D
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ShvnDrgn commented
It's a real bummer that after a few years you see founder's badges so infrequently. I like that early supporters get something to show that they were there at the begin, but with how fluid content and viewer's attention spans can be it'd be nice to easily see who the real long-term supporters are besides just fancier sub streak badges.
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Im_Baldman commented
Give the streamer control of turning on and off the founders badges if they choose for their channel, more OPTIONS are always better. Also implement a system of passing the badge along after for example 6 months of not subscribing/ being banned/blocked. After the period of time passes the badge then goes to the next eligible recipient. This way it still recognizes the people who are long standing supporting members of the community, but ensures they are active.
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ViciousCode commented
I support this and would like the ability to remove a founder badge from someone I had to ban because they were causing drama in the channel. would be easier to give the badge to specific users
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Venoxxie commented
Some of my founders don't even follow me or don't come around at all (not even a lurk) anymore due to past drama or something.
I get Twitch expects founders to be the ones who originally subscribed, were some of the first to ever be around you, and were the ones who first helped you out with your streaming hobby/career but it shouldn't be that way as life, drama, rule breaking, and other **** get in the way and those people who once supported you no longer want anything to do with you or your channel.So I support this.
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ShaelynTheFae commented
as a moderator, I have accidentally banned the wrong person
as a viewer, I have accidentally been banned from stream
I absolutely support this, but it needs to not be automated for ppl banned from stream. if someone lost their badge bc of a misclick, that'd be awful. let it be streamer's discretion. -
AdorkablyRini commented
This would also be great for cases of harassment and toxicity.
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HiccupingBoots commented
Several of the people that have founders badges in my channel have been banned. People I have had to ban for being abusive should not be holding founders badges. That honor should go to someone else.
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7imberwolf commented
YES PLEASE. What’s the point of having these if no one ever gets to see them? Founder’s badges should go to those next in line that actually still subscribe!