Please create the option for an account age chat restriction (similar to follower only mode) so streamers can restrict newly created accounts from trolling/harassing in chat.

When necessary, brand new Twitch accounts could be restricted from chatting by allowing the streamer to pick the length of time accounts need to have been created for before they can chat. (24 hrs, 7 days, 14 days etc).

This would potentially be even more effective at dealing with certain types of harassment compared to a 10 min+ follower only mode because it would allow for the average twitch viewer to still interact with a stream that they perhaps don't follow while still protecting the streamer from someone making new accounts for harassment purposes.

I would like to propose that Twitch implements much stricter rules surrounding username creation and the terms which are allowed to be used in usernames. Users are still allowed to create usernames which are hateful, sexually explicit and degrading, despite this behaviour being against the Twitch Community Guidelines.

I appreciate that moderators and streamers are able to ban and report these accounts, but stopping this behaviour should NOT be the sole responsibility of content creators and their team. Furthermore, this method merely addresses the problem AFTER it has already happened. We need Twitch to implement a system which can identify harmful usernames and prevent them from being created in the first place.

I am proposing this out of both a need to protect streamers and their communities. I was targeted by numerous accounts, with usernames including the statements 'all lives matter' and 'no consent', as well as phrases relating to graphic ****** acts and anatomy. Although my mods were able to ban and report these individuals, the usernames were still visible to my community and myself, and affected me deeply. Twitch needs to do more to protect content creators, and the simplest way to do this is by addressing the problem BEFORE it happens - by preventing the creation of these harmful usernames.

I would like to remind people of the Twitch Community Guidelines, specifically relating to Hateful Conduct and Harassment, and a couple of these guidelines which were clearly violated from my own experience:

Content that is prohibited under our Hateful Conduct policy—regardless of whether it is intended to be hateful—includes, but is not limited to the following:
- Content that encourages or supports the political or economic dominance of any race, ethnicity, or religious group, including support for white supremacist/nationalist ideologies

The following categories of behaviors are considered to be sexually harassing, and are prohibited on Twitch:
- Making unsolicited objectifying statements relating to the body parts or practices of another person
- Making unsolicited statements in reference to performing graphic acts on another person
(And perhaps most relevant:)
- Creating accounts dedicated to harassment or hate, such as through abusive usernames

I understand that this may be very difficult to implement, however it would greatly improve the experience for both content creators and their communities, and foster a much safer environment. I believe that actively ensuring hateful behaviour has no place on Twitch is worth the challenges that might arise.

Only allow accounts with 2fa enabled to watch your stream

There are a host of problems on Twitch and I feel as though this idea could be a solution to some of the bigger ones.

I suggest giving streamers the option to only allow accounts with 2fa to access their channel. Make it an option for the individual streamer and make it toggleable.

In order for this to work, Twitch must do more than just “not allow the user to use chat.” Twitch needs to stop them from accessing the streamer’s channel all together. The same needs to be done for users who are banned/blocked but that is a whole other discussion.

There should also be a way to have this feature enabled, but with a customizable exemption list so that streamers can still allow their nightbots, moobots, etc access.

As someone who has faced harassment from a person viewbotting me for 10 months now, this is one of the only solutions I can think of to combat this. By only allowing accounts connected to a phone number to access my page, I would no longer be harassed this way.

It would also eliminate the problem of people constantly harassing with alternate accounts.

It would also be a good option for when someone is playing a new game and wants to stop people from using alt accounts to spoil.

These are just a few benefits I could see coming out of this!

Please Twitch, it is time to do more to protect your creators. As someone whose issues have been constantly pushed aside, I ask that you consider this solution not just for me, but for every streamer that’s faced harassment as I have.

Enable 2FA as a chat optional requirement for users to be required to have 2fa before typing in a users stream chat. This would drastically reduce the number of times a banned user will try to evade a ban to harass a streamer / disrupt chat.
On top of this it would drastically increase awareness on 2fa. Being optional it wouldn't force people or streamers to turn it on or use it. This could also help people who have 18+ Mature content streams reduce the number of people under 18 from engaging.

As 2fa already exists within the twitch platform and is required for affiliated/partnered streamers enabling this to a chat setting would be pretty easy for a developer to add into a code

Its already clearly a pretty popular idea
https://twitter.com/ellerows/status/1299393402266628096

How it could look here:
https://twitter.com/ellerows/status/1299403769634000934/photo/1

Every game that is released is released with an ESRB rating determining its appropriateness for various audiences. Twitch already collects these ratings when they add new games to the platform.

Now streamers have the option to turn a "Mature" warning for their content, but rarely is a streamers content always Mature, or always all-ages-friendly.

Given that Twitch has this information, it would be a great help to many if depending on which category you are streaming to, it automatically enables or disables the Mature filter based on the ESRB rating of the game.

For non-gaming categories, some could easily be defined as Mature or Friendly (eg, Hot tubs - Mature, Art - Friendly), and for ones where it has a broad manner of interpretation, it defaults to the streamers set state.

Moderators on the browser and desktop versions of twitch have incredible access to moderation tools such as mod icons, mod view etc. this makes handling larger chat rooms incredibly easy for a group of mods working together.

Unfortunately I, like many others, am in a position where I am a mod for a larger community, yet am often on the go and find myself using mobile twitch far more often than desktop. This makes it so much harder to keep chat under control, as the current moderation process on mobile is utterly laughable. Messages that would be deleted instantly if we were modding on other platforms will be shown in chat for a period of several seconds before we can even act on them due to the fact we need to press and hold on the persons name, then choose a moderation action. This causes huge headaches for the streamer, viewers in chat, and the other mods.

I would love to see more convenient mod icons on mobile twitch, or the ability to do quick 2 tap moderation by merely having to press chat member’s names, rather than hold for a period of time.

A condensed mod view page on mobile twitch would also be incredible, so that mods on the go are able to help with things like running predictions, unban requests, channel point rewards etc.

These changes being added to mobile twitch would be massive for moderators and streamers alike, allowing us to perform our roles just as well on the go, as if we were on a desktop.

The current Twitch account creation system offers little to no assurance of protection for creators. Enforcement actions, when taken, are reactive, rather than proactive, and require submitting reports, writing descriptions, and disrupting the stream, which is exactly what these people want. Even enabling email verification for users to chat does not prevent someone from creating multiple successive, free "burner" email accounts for the express purpose of harassing one or more users. Someone can simply create a free email account online, create a free Twitch account, use the new email to verify the account, and circumvent that particular feature. To prevent this, there are a number of possible solutions.

1) Implement a one-time account creation fee. It doesn't have to be a huge fee, and could of course come with maybe a few bits or a free sub or something. Not much, but enough that it would deter all but the most determined from creating say, 12 accounts in a 30 minute period. How many people would be willing to spend money just to harass someone for a few minutes before being blocked and banned? Probably a lot less than are happy to do it for free. Obviously, an account creation fee wouldn't apply to Amazon Prime users, but I feel there should be some sort of consequence for any Prime user whose account is connected to ToS violations (i.e., forfeiture of Prime benefits, Prime fee, and being barred from subscribing in the future).

2) Require credit card verification. Look, I promise, I don't work for the man, but studies have shown anonymity to be a major factor in online harassment. A credit card (or debit card with a credit card carrier like most have), would be tied directly to the individual, providing traceability, and therefore accountability.

3) As many other posts have suggested, implement IP or MAC tracking. Look, you aren't fooling anyone, when a secure connection is established, the IP address is requested and sent as part of the handshake. The information is already there, and consequently (because servers), logged. Use it.

The reality here is that harassment will be a problem as long as there are avenues for individuals to exploit. Banning or suspending a user after the fact does nothing to discourage the single-minded, therefore precautionary measures must be explored and implemented to protect creators who choose Twitch to safely interact with their communities. It's worth noting that cyber harassment is actually a crime in some jurisdictions, so maybe putting a little more effort into preventing it - instead of worrying so much about what to do after it happens - might be a good investment for everyone.

This feature very important for every streamer earning from Twitch.

Logon 2FA Requirement do not enough for who got hacked by silent.
And too many streamer don't check email.

In case my friend (twitch affiliate) got hacked.
It changed payout information without email notification(don't know reason).
And got her earn to hacker paypal account.
Region support can't help or slow progress, suggest to contact HQ Twitch.
Too many step progress to resolve this case and unsure it resolve.
Streamer have concern can got hack again if change new password and change payout back.
Investigated don't know why got hacked, That pc don't install any suspicious software or chrome extension.

I think this feature too important. "Password authentication or 2FA when who need to change his Payout Information".

Second Suggest, Twitch should sent email notification before payout someone about 5-7 days.
because streamer can break or call support if payout information is incorrect before money gone.

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.

While I can understand the rationale behind channel chat and whispers being treated separately, the fact is that users who are banned for inappropriate behavior often follow up by harassing the streamer directly through whispers. Here is a potential workflow I can think of:

Whenever a mod bans a user from a streamer’s channel, it triggers some kind of message/notification to the streamer that a user has been banned and asks if the streamer would also like to block/ignore. Additionally, there can be an option for the streamer to auto-block in these instances where mods are trusted and there may be too many bans to manage.

Users are able to hide specific badges already (Twitch Prime, Turbo, Bits, ...) but what about Moderator Badges?

The reason for this suggestion:
In smaller streams (new) chatters might get scared if moderators post messages.

So I see 2 potential ways this could be achieved:

1. Only visually disable the mod badge (keeping the moderation actions in-tact)


2. Allow moderator to go into "non-moderation mode" - in this mode, the moderation actions are not available and they are like a normal chatter

In both cases moderators should still show up in the Moderator List (/mods).

Recently Twitch added a "Mod View" into the chat settings - maybe something could be added in there?
Say a "Hide Moderator Badge" option?

The new channel points are pretty fun, and the ability to highlight messages is great. I'm using it frequently when moderating to make sure all the users see certain messages (like instructions on how to vote on something, announcing that the streamer will be right back, reminders about backseating not being allowed, etc).

It would be nice if it didn't cost any points for us mods to use that feature though, because there are situations where we might need to use it but don't have enough points available. Alternatively, add another similar feature available for mods only that isn't dependent on channel points at all.

When a user is banned from a channel, in addition to being unable to engage with chat, they are shown nothing but Twitch ads in that channel.

This would prevent abuse via sharing or clipping moments to use as harassment on other platforms, dissuade them from staying in the channel at all, and deliver additional revenue to the streamer and Twitch.

Similar to blocking users on other platforms, they would see nothing at all. Leveraging "ads are a necessary evil" for good means that at least a streamer might be compensated via ad revenue for having to manage and deal with abuse.