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
Thank you for your patience - We apologize for the inconvenience and hope you continue to leave us your valuable feedback!
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DemonCatDaphne commented
I love this idea! I'd like to see when the user last visited the channel in the dashboard and if they're banned so I can manually remove them if I wish (I'd personally remove the badge if someone hasn't been to my channel in over a year and I haven't talked to them outside of my stream either or if I had to ban a person).
My only concern is that people feel pressure from the badges, kind of like a VIP badge for financial supporters if that makes sense, and they'd be afraid to cancel their sub (of course this is depending on how streamers handle it, but just wanted to put it out there) -
Dynamicg_ commented
I am in support of this feature to be implemented, as I too have "Founders" that have either been banned for inappropriate language or behaviour, or simply haven't returned to the Channel for unknown reasons, I would therefore prefer to allocate my regular subscribers who choose to support me every month with a founder badge, not to be limited by "first come, first severed".
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SporeRose commented
Yeah, it would be nice to get to remove badges from anyone who hasn't bothered to check in on my channel in 4 years and make them readily available to the people who are actually supporting my content these days.
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Jasmineitor commented
One of my founders is someone who is banned and blocked for stalking and harassment, so I'd love to see this feature implemented so I don't have to look at their name on my dashboard.
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MorhenWolf commented
The biggest reason I want this to be a features is because a lot of Founders didn't join my streams for over 2 years, so I prefer to let others that are active have it.
In a way, I understand the idea "Founder", which means first come, first served. But still, some customization never hurts, to be able to remove and even add Founders as a creator.
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ashkero commented
Would also really love this for the reason that the people with founder badges may have been removed from the community (banned etc) for bad behaviour or making people uncomfortable
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FizzJB commented
100 percent agree!
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hurryslowly commented
Being able to remove the badge for users that are banned or have left the community and possibly freeing slots for users that may have missed the badge by 1 or 2 subs but are still constant supporters would definitely improve the community feel greatly.
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RockyVegaTV commented
YES. I got someone who grabbed the 1st Founder's Badge on my channel and I don't know if I can expect them to even come around much now. This would be GREAT.
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Nate_LapT commented
This!
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DatFunkyKnight commented
Hi, regarding founder badges:
I think that it's great you can see which subscribers have the founder badges however unfortunately in cases like mine one of those founder badges belongs to a long-gone subscriber I had to ban because they harassed me and sent people to harass me live on one of my streams.
This is an unpleasant memory and I think the option to remove the founder badge from toxic people like that should be available to streamers.
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ShaelynTheFae commented
yes, but please make it optional by the streamer.
if someone was banned from the channel accidentally, it would suck to automatically lose the Founder's badge -
shaunio commented
Hard agree with this, it was very disappointing to see that 9 out of my 10 founders were banned/inactive/unfollowed users. A potential 9 new founders for people who actually deserve it would be nice.
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Angeltjee commented
uch yes please, i don't even know/recognize most of the people that got the founder badge.
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Angeltjee commented
yes please
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DuccVT commented
Now we can see at a glance who our Founders are, I can imagine, for some streamers, that there are banned and/or inactive users on that list. Seeing these banned and/or inactive accounts can potentially be harmful.
Please consider allowing us to "delete" these users off the list, and re-allocate the badge to the next user in line. For example, Subscriber #11 would instead receive the Founder badge.
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NCI_Chiv commented
Been thinking about this a lot having been creating content for just over a year now and having a good few people that just missed out on badges losing out to people who almost trolled by being a first 10 sub and never subbing again.
Would be great if after 6 months (or a certain number of hours of streaming) of not visiting the stream you 'forfeit' your badge.
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fanagz commented
+1
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StealthHawkDude commented
Something I have always wondered if what should happen if one of the founders is permanently banned from a channel. My proposal is that if they are banned and either do not get their un ban request waved they lose the founders badge and it goes to whoever was next
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OliTheRepairDude commented
Please let me remove the twitch founder badge for some users like those user who are banned!
I had a viewer who had subbed and subsequently trolled me and cause trouble in the community.