Many streamers have a feature where if you donate a certain amount of currency, whether that be bits or the local currency the streamer has setup on their streaming provider, your message will come up on stream and get read aloud by a voice that the streamer can customize. Because there is generally a minimum amount to get this text-to-speech feature (TTS), and it is a big moneymaker for some people, I don't know how many people would use this feature, but I think it would be a good idea to allow channel points to pay for TTS messages. I know of one or two streamers, in particular, that would benefit from this because they use TTS messages to make streams more fun and create content. People now make memes all the time using the feature, it is very entertaining. Unfortunately, I think that there are so many people that would be really good at crafting excellent messages, but they are unable to afford to donate so their messages are never heard. This would be a great outlet for them, and one that I think is realistic. Although it may take some work because Twitch would need to work with the streaming providers on this, it's something that is absolutely possible and should be investigated.

I would love to see a redeemable Channel Points reward that would be locked in at a certain amount that CANNOT be changed by the streamer, that could be redeemed for an actual subscription. It can be treated much the same as a Twitch Prime subscription, where it has to be renewed monthly, as well as supports the streamer as a normal subscription would.

This could enhance viewer times for those less fortunate that may not be able to afford subscriptions to their favorite streamers, and reward them for spending time watching their favorite streamer.

It can also pay off for Twitch, as this would have to equate to ad revenue in some way and that would be where determining the channel point amount that still develops a profit for Twitch so that this can be afforded while still turning a profit.

Hi, I'm one of the lucky people who get to play with predictions. I had it pointed out to me by my mods that they were not able to join in on the fun. I had several complaints about not being able to predict my death on stream.

I have more than a couple of moderators as not one of them are able to make every stream, and it feels unfair that the moderators can't join in on making predictions, other than starting a prediction.

With the limitation of only being able to vote once, the only problem I could see in the validation phase of a prediction. Is there not some way this could be mitigated as in a second confirmation from the streamer so that the moderators can't validate the prediction in their own favour? And the confirmation of the streamer having more weight than a moderator?

Prior to channel points being a Twitch feature, many streamers decided to use their streaming provider to create a point system and create another source of entertainment on streams. I know that with Streamlabs points you can gamble your points which provides yet another way to entertain yourself on stream. In some streams you could actually type !gamble in chat and streamelements would then reply with a successful or failed gamble doubling or claiming the point amount you gambled, but this may not be viable because it could really clog up chat. I do wish however that there were some gambling games that streamers could enable that would allow us to gamble our points balance. With streamlabs points also, we got points for every gift sub and for a certain amount donated in bits. I like that we now receive points for a monthly donation of bits and gift subs, but it's a lot harder to get points because these are only once a month things and we cannot get more points regardless of how much we donate. It also doesn't help that the multiplier was recently reduced to almost nothing for tier-1 subs.

Moderators have access to view the reward requests view of the twitch streams they moderate for and accept or reject the reward redemption. Can broadcaster have more control over this capability?

While it is awesome our mods have the ability to do this, some moderators may exploit the ability to approve and reject requests, while rejection means the channel points go back to the person. For custom rewards this means they can keep accumulating points and redeeming them on custom rewards and then rejecting and giving themselves the points back.

As broadcasters, we do not have the ability to see what our moderators have approved/rejected in the rewards queue. While this is great, broadcasters have no idea what was approved or denied/given back in points and what moderators are accessing when. This means, moderators may be approving or crediting the channel points they redeem back to themselves, or wiping queues before the streamer has a chance to action anything (like gifting subs).

Yes we should entrust our mods to do the right thing, but the principle is for rewards (which could come with out of pocket expenses) broadcasters whould have the ability to make sure moderators are not exploiting.

Can we please have the option to toggle the reward request queue to:
Off - Moderators and Editors do not have access
On - Moderators and Editors have access
Editors - Only editors have access

This would allow broadcasters to have the ability of what mods/editors can do on their channel with rewards.

Note: Having and auditable log would be great too. Being able to see what was redeemed, who cleared the reward and how (accepted/declined).

My idea is to make channel points more rewarding for both the streamer and viewers. My suggestion would be to have X amount of channel points unlocks X amount of bits, &/OR, X amount of channel points unlocks a one month subscription to the streamer the viewer is spending their valuable time watching and supporting. This idea would help smaller channels grow and it would also let the viewers support their favorite streamers/content creators just by spending time with them. Everyone could use a little positive boost and this would be a great way to show support and positivity. Thank you for taking the time to read and go over my suggestion!