It is a smart thing to do. Because you don’t always get channel points when just watching the stream. I think it should have been done sooner.

Tonight I was in someone's stream for almost 2 hours and didn't receive any channel points. And I'm saving up for 1 mil channel points, so every little bit matters to me. This was an error on Twitch's part. And I understand that these things happen because, well, technology... but for real when something like this happens, it would be real nice if the streamer could make up for that error. Because it's not like Twitch needs to deal with this kind of stupid hassle. Give us the right to manage our points. Completely. It's not like it's affecting Twitch's bottom line. It should be able to be controlled by the streamer or the mods of that channel. Thank you!

just over 3 years of this idea and still nothing, How many upvotes does it need to be made a thing. I think its due time it gets added

I think this is such a good idea, it could help a lot for streamers that focus on minigames communities, where they can award points that can later be used for other rewards.

This is also a good idea for dev streamers that want to award points through the apps that use the API.

I think this should be a thing, and not only available to the streamer, but to their mods to have the ability as well to do so.

Streamer themselves is tied up in a game, hears/sees something funny in chat, but can't get to the chatbox to input the command of /givepoints [username]/[chat] <amount> to award either a viewer or all of chat the amount of channel points.

If the streamer has a good set of mods, all they need to do is ask the mods to give out channel points as well. If the streamer doesn't want their mods to abuse this, this setting could be turned off in the Channel Points section of Creator Dashboard.

One might even go farther with this, and say any banned users in a streamer's channel should have all of their accumulated points be put into a separate pool for the streamer to then disperse to the rest of chat as they see fit.

As a streamer I have full control over the options and prices on how viewers can spend their channel points. It would be resonable that I also have control over how they are earned. It is currently impossible to manage the economy of channel points in the community, which is often an issue in setting costs considerting longtime and new viewers.

With channel points only beeing valid in my own channel, there are no impacts on other channels how ever I decide to grant or demand points. One could argue against it that the experience of earning points changes across Twitch, which is true. But the experience of spending points is already individual to the channel.

Is there a financial reasoning behind it since this might reduce the power of cheers? Cheers do have a controlled economy via the currency value, which makes them much easier to manage. I could imagine that some applications could switch from using bits and currency to channel points once they can control them. Yet, as uncontrollable channel points are now, they miss a lot of potential.

I would prefer to have full control on channel points including granting and taking points.

@PahaPasifisti

"Absolute a No. Anyone could after that create a gamble bot to give points for free."

why is that an issue for you?

Its ok! I use tiktok now, and it allows me to add manually channel points (especially for my 3 biggest supporters who donated in les than a year +80.000€, 40.000€ and 35.000€) so Please close this toppic before twitch become more attractive to streamers 🫡👌🏻

Absolute a No. Anyone could after that create a gamble bot to give points for free.

edit: If you wanna give free points: for stuff, price your stuff right. On stream with your request with # points cost isn't gonna make your better, sorry. Talk with your community maybe?

I just became an affiliate and thought this was already a thing - so sad it's not, would definitely leverage this to increase engagement.

It would be amazing to get access to these points from the perspective of a Twitch Extension, too. So many of them run off bits but are largely unused because most viewers don't care if their $2 makes a toot noise happen on stream. I'd love to make a Twitch extension if I could utilize official channel points as the cost/reward system, but anything else just seems confusing for the user.

Currently, to get that toot noise payable with channel points, you need an external program reading the chat for redemptions and running the show behind the scenes, but it would be lovely to not have all that complicated of a setup and just hook into existing extensions like the Sound Alerts extension. This feature goes much further with more complicated extensions that want to integrate a point system.

Also, just to piggyback on a lot of the great ideas listed in this feedback thread, the upper-limit of how many rewardable channel points exist could be tied to how often the streamer streams; a channel point bank of sorts. Not necessarily 1:1 with everyone else's point accumulation, but I could see this being nice just to prevent people's point systems from going out of whack, if that's a concern.

I'm forced to use Stream Elements loyalty points for rewards (charity incentives, community engagement and goals). I named them CatNip Nuggies.

Chatters love gambling with them and other silly games (Stream Elements modules) WAY more than I expected. I would also love to give them out for the people that want to feed/interact with the Pando pet.

Maybe allow it, but with some limitations?

If the problem is that they might become worthless due to being 'free' vs. earning them (lurking/subbing)? Something like how the Community Goals limit per day contributions. <3

Being able to give points to other viewers would be great too. A lot of times in channels where there aren't many options for point redemption viewers just ask if they can give points to someone. It's a fun idea

I would love to see this get added. as a relatively new affiliate myself I was disappointed to see that this was not a system already. Now i have to go out of my way and setup a custom points system with streamer.bot that somehow links back to channel points

I wanted to make a mini-game and allow members to "cash in" the points earned via that to the Twitch reward points... I suppose I'll have to scrap this :') Too bad I spent hours working on it before I realised this wasn't a thing haha. Should really be implemented, how is it we can't give channel points as streamers? Silly.

this would be an amazing feature! please implement it! you could give points to a winner of a marbles race or hold channel point giveaways, could set up all kinds of games with chat with channel points being given as prizes

WHY ISN'T THIS ALREADY A THING :( Allow me to gift points, on the fly, live. I could make my own personalized games, verbal agreements or bets, ie: "streaming with a friend, post your bet in the chat to see who wins this challenge (which would be something I made up on the fly, live, just talking to my viewers). I shouldn't have to have a pre-made streamelements or streamlabs game to make my own random verbal agreements or bets during my stream. It would be SO much more engaging then having to go through the motions of people typing "! {whatever the challenge is}". Streamlabs is wayyyy ahead of the curve on this, and Twitch points have been around for 4 years now.

WHY ISN'T THIS ALREADY A THING. Please please please allow me to gift points, that way I can make my own personalized games, ie: "streaming with a friend, post your bet in the chat to see who wins this challenge (which would be something I made up on the fly, live, just talking to my viewers). I shouldn't have to have a pre-made streamelements or twitch game to make my own random verbal agreements or bets on the fly during my stream. It would be SO much more engaging then having to go through the motions of people typing "! {whatever the challenge is}"

I'd like to be able to award a few channel points to people for answering a trivia question correctly.

Bonjour, j'ai intégré un jeu pokemon à ma chaine ou les viewers utilise leurs points pour acheter des pokeball et attraper les pokemon qui pop.
Il serait super que je puisse donner des points de chaîne comme je le souhaite afin qu'ils puissent être récompensés par moi-même.
En plus d'attrapé des pokemon, ils peuvent faire des combats pvp entre viewers mais pour activer cette fonction il leur faut églament avoir des points de chaînes, le souci, c'est que les nouveaux viewers, on peut de points quand ils arrivent cette fonction pourrait me permettre de dynamiser l'attraction avec mes viewers .
J'ajouterai également une fonction pour racheter des points de chaînes avec les bits.
Pour le moment la seule astuce que j'ai trouvée et de ne pas valider les points de chaîne afin de les rembourser… cette action et très fastidieuse et me fait perdre beaucoup de temps pendant mes lives.
SVP Twitch donnais nous cette fonction !