Having the ability to easily and quickly permit links from users would be a great help. Most of us use bots like Nightbot, Moobot, Streamlabs/Elemets to deal with links in chat we don't want and auto block them but with BTTV we were able to click on a user name and clikc !permit for that user.

My idea is that either add that feature to Mod View when we clikc a name or better yet, force Auto Mod to grab the links first and then allow mods to permit it if we so desire. This then give the user who posted a link a message like it normally does letting them know we are looking it. It gives us time to check the link and then decide if it should go through or not.

I'm from the south and see a good amount of Dixie's still flying. Wouldn't do it myself, but I respect those who do and know they are good people. Believe it or not, the flag is a symbol of regional pride and heritage, and is in NO WAY the racist hate symbol that you and others inside the progressive orthodoxy see it as. Unilaterally painting it as such and ignoring the reality on the ground, what it actually means to the people living here, is just wrong. It's an inspirational symbol to fight for what you believe in, and all of us believe much differently than the Confederates nowadays. True tolerance involves respecting reasonably differing perspectives and not just stamping out those that you disagree with. Please reconsider.

I was watching project nightfall’s video on IG about women who get harassed while doing a livestream. It reminded me of how a number of times I watch such incidences and most of the time the streamers are left speechless and unsure of how to act. From the various incidents recorded, I noticed a couple of patterns which occurred and thought to take advantage of them:
a) The culprits faces were visible for at least 10 seconds.
b) There were people around using their devices. What are the odds they are subscribed to twitch or another social media platform?

Inspired by Uber’s SOS button, here are a few features that can be utilised to make the main function available:
a) Keyword - A trigger word during a livestream that captures a screenshot and/or notifies the nearest emergency contact or streamer. Having a custom keyword may accidentally trip it off. An ideal phrase would be something that could be raised in distress of a douchebag.
b) Tracer - Channel owners can set their location to be live when they stream and users can enable security notification alerts in one of two ways: a) when their subscriber activates their alert or b) incase any alert is activated based on their last active location. Privacy on location may be an issue, but safety for a fellow Twitcher can be prioritised.
c) Screen recording and wall of shame - What are the chances that the people harassing others have done the same to three, four or tens of other streamers? When people are streaming outside, they can activate a 10 second recording feature whereby upon using a keyword or tapping a button, those 10 seconds are recorded and uploaded to the wall. This function can be linked to the Tracer function whereby upon upload, a moderator or partner (anywhere in the world) gets notified and reviews it before approving it to be shared to the clip to the tracer network. Once active, Twitchers can be on the lookout for the streamer in distress.

Just thought I’d share my safety thoughts this IWD month after getting disgusted enough with a recurring pattern and my backstory of hoping everyone would be safe regardless of age, *** or race.

Often a user in chat will post an objectionable message which the streamer and moderators miss: there may be an offensive meaning which is objectionable but cleverly concealed and a violation of channel-specific rules, for example.

I suggest adding a "flag" icon that works very much like the existing Reply button on every chat message whereby people in chat can select another chat message and post a reply message into chat which will be visible to channel moderators, chat bots with moderator status, and the streamer, Only, and non-moderators cannot see the reply.

This way there would be a safer means of communicating from other chatters than posting publicly, and a more efficient moderation response than trying to discuss with viewers using whispers.

This would allow moderators to know the active number of subscribers and sub points that the streamer currently has. This would be helpful for events like subathons or when streamers try to make a push for unlocking a new emote.

This information may be more than some streamers are willing to share with their mod team, so this would be something that the Streamer would be able to share if they wanted to. The Streamer would have a setting that would allow them to share this info with mods (default setting would be "No").

For Mods, this could be info see in a widget in the mod view. If the Streamer chooses not to share this information The widget could just show "The Streamer has chosen to not disclose this information" or something along those lines.