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1. Don't allow nudity on Twitch

   This is simply a copy paste of a reply from a recent reddit post on the subject. It's un edited for this purpose but it gets the point across. (Seeing as there are already 2 people asking for nudity, I figured the counter needed a spot)

   I'm a Creative streamer. Long before Creative was a thing. I don't want nudity as part of broadcasts. Why? Several reasons. I run a business. Customers come to my channel to see my work, and one of the problems with nudity is that I don't want my business to be associated with it - Be it fine arts or hentai.

   That brings up the second reason why I don't want nudity. What is art, and what is porn? There's no hard line, and just because something isn't porn or distasteful to you, doesn't mean it isn't for others. I believe that hentai for instance, is porn. But ask any person who draws hentai, and they'll say it isn't. That it's art (The two are not mutually exclusive).

   third reason why I believe there shouldn't be nudity (Read: genitalia). It's an open category with many different streams and people. While GTA is a category with just that one game, and that one audience - It's an 18+ game, in an 18+ category. Creative isn't 18+, and it shouldn't be. There's no good way to allow children browsing Creative with, or without their parents, when there are people drawing dicks in there. (And setting channels to "mature" doesn't do jack)

   Fourth reason, which is more of a counter argument to the idea that Twitch allows plenty nudity already: They don't. Plenty of games are banned from Twitch for the one reason that they display genitalia in one way or another - Recently Genital Jousting, which is a cartoony, and rather funny game in my opinion, about dick-jousting. There's a world of difference between a game character performing a lap-dance more or less clothed, and clearly displayed genitalia. (For the record, I don't think these games should be banned necessarily. They should simply have their own 18+ section - And one could possibly make an 18+ Creative section) An addition to this: Twitch does punish streamers who linger on sexual things in games. It can occur, but it canot be the focus of the broadcast.

   Fifth reason. There's no real good way to moderate this. Even without nudity allowed we've seen countless examples of people crossing the line, be it artful drawing or straight up porn, that have allowed to stream for hours before being shut down. There's no incentive at Twitch to have an admin browsing Creative constantly, verifying that all broadcasts that display genitalia are not crossing whatever arbitrary line Twitch would have to set on "What's porn?"

   Lastly. The idea that allowing nudity would help Creative grow has no real validity. What ever audience may be gained from it, would likely be trumped by the loss of younger audiences and sensitive people who choose to not browse the category, because it shows content they're not comfortable with. This doesn't need to be an ongoing discussion. Twitch is a private company, and they have a relatively strict policy on genitalia (Unlike Youtube that allows for videos of births and Genital Jousting for instance). Can nudity be allowed in a way that isn't detrimental? Possibly. Is it worth it to invest the resources so a handful of artist get to do that one painting they want to do? Probably not. There are so many things to do in art. If you can't do nudity on stream, it's not that big of a deal, in my honest opinion.

   There are art streaming services that allow for nudity, so it's not like there's no place to broadcast this type of content. If anything, I think it's important that we retain a place where nudity isn't part of the Creative process, for the sake of the younger audience, and the more sensitive audience.

   The amount of risky content on JTV back when I broadcasted on there was actually enough to make me not want to share my broadcast with people I knew - It had much looser content guidelines, and as a result, it ended up being something I for instance wouldn't want to show my parents, because you never knew when a cam girl was building up an audience she'd then move over to an actual camsite (They did this a lot), or just straight up porn streams. (Porn streams could run for hours as long as they didn't hit frontpage, so if viewer numbers got too high, the broadcaster would put on a weird clown video or something to make part of the audience leave - The lengths people would go just to broadcast porn was stupid - The issue was well known by one of the mods I spoke with at the time) - I don't want Twitch to risk this being anywhere near a possibility to become the norm on their site.

   Allowing nudity could potentially make it difficult to secure licensing for shows like Bob Ross The Joy of Painting, and the various Food shows. There are likely going to be more of these things in the future, and if nudity has any detrimental effect on securing a deal for these marathons, it's doing much more harm than good.

   This is simply a copy paste of a reply from a recent reddit post on the subject. It's un edited for this purpose but it gets the point across. (Seeing as there are already 2 people asking for nudity, I figured the counter needed a spot)

   I'm a Creative streamer. Long before Creative was a thing. I don't want nudity as part of broadcasts. Why? Several reasons. I run a business. Customers come to my channel to see my work, and one of the problems with nudity is that I don't want my business to be associated with it -… more

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2. Allow Nudity

   Since the creation of twitch creative last year, there's been a great community growing. Twitch has made a new and exciting platform for artists to connect with their audience that hasn't really existed before. It allows for such a personal connection between the art, artist, and viewer. When I see artwork from an artist that I watch regularly, not only do I see their beautiful creation, I remember special moments when they completed a section of their work.

   On October 28th, 2015, when Twitch creative was announced on the Twitch blog they wrote, ”We expect to learn much about what is, and is not, appropriate for Twitch as the community grows.”

   After a year of silence, I hope that the community can get some answers and solutions to this important issue.

   For clarity here are the terms of service regarding nudity.

   For Twitch gaming:

   “Nudity can't be a core focus or feature of the game in question, and modded nudity is disallowed in its entirety. Occurrences of in-game nudity are permitted, so long as you do not make them a primary focus of your broadcast and only spend as much time as needed in the area to progress the game's story.”

   For Twitch Creative:

   “We are working on ways to ensure that artists can produce the work that they want, while also fostering a safe space for the community as a whole. We ask that you refrain from creating or using depictions of nudity or extreme violence until those features are implemented.”

   For gaming, nudity can't be the primary focus. For creative, nudity can't be shown at all.

   These rules imposed upon the creative community, cripple creators and the viewers knowledge from such a fundamental core of drawing, the human anatomy. Artists want to share their creative process, including their skills as they improve. How can they improve when the necessary knowledge of human anatomy is forbidden?

   When game designers make a choice to have nudity in their games, the majority of the time it's for sexualized purposes.

   However what the creative community wants is to at least have nudity as an educational tool to build upon our skills as artists to further our understanding of anatomy.

   Today you can view nudity in games, however if there's a drawing thats somewhat suggestive it's a bannable offense.

   Just as flowers, sunsets, and mountains are useful tools in the artist’s toolkit, the unadorned human body can be an essential tool to express the pure emotion of what the artist is trying to convey. Artists use nudity as a tool to focus attention on the human form, and not irrelevant aspects like how their shirts are buttoned, how clothing is being draped, or whether they are wearing the most stylish kind of hat. And if the point of art is to primarily express ideas about the nature of humanity and our role in the world, then it would be natural to expect the nude body would be among the most powerful of those expressive tools.

   Artists deserve the same level of freedom as gamers. To put a lid on our talent diminishes the range of appreciation for the human condition and causes us to constantly edit our creativity.

   I want the artwork I experience to be created with the best training, the most creative ideas, and the widest freedom to use all those things to make the most excellent works that best efforts can achieve. To do any less would make the world a worse place to live.

   You allow gamers to play their games. Allow artists to create their masterpieces.

   Since the creation of twitch creative last year, there's been a great community growing. Twitch has made a new and exciting platform for artists to connect with their audience that hasn't really existed before. It allows for such a personal connection between the art, artist, and viewer. When I see artwork from an artist that I watch regularly, not only do I see their beautiful creation, I remember special moments when they completed a section of their work.

   On October 28th, 2015, when Twitch creative was announced on the Twitch blog they wrote, ”We expect to learn much about what… more

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3. Report Transparency/Feedback

   I would love if the whole process of reporting someone came with a bit more transparency in regards to what then happens.

   When reporting a user today, you're left with the message "Thank you for your report", and that's it. From that point, you have no way of knowing what happens, and you never hear back from Twitch in regards to the outcome of your report.

   I would like to suggest that a bit of transparency is introduced to this process.
   If reports were treated like bug reports/feature suggestions, sending us an automated e-mail with a ticket-number attached, it would not only allow us to submit further proof/more info directly attached to that specific report to further expidite it, but it would also allow us to know if our report was handled and action was taken, or if our report was declined for one or more reasons.
   I know for obvious reasons, you can't always disclose how specific reports are handled, but giving us a degree of transparency in this process and allowing us to chip in on a specific report directly based on a ticket-number, could allow for a certain - and most likely not insignificant - amount of reports to get handled with higher accuracy than previous.

   I would love if the whole process of reporting someone came with a bit more transparency in regards to what then happens.

   When reporting a user today, you're left with the message "Thank you for your report", and that's it. From that point, you have no way of knowing what happens, and you never hear back from Twitch in regards to the outcome of your report.

   I would like to suggest that a bit of transparency is introduced to this process.
   If reports were treated like bug reports/feature suggestions, sending us an automated e-mail with a ticket-number attached, it would… more

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4. Regulate Affiliate releated Casino Game Streams

   Recently I've noticed that new only casino streamers are coming to Twitch every day and it concerns me:

   My concerns are:

   • They use Twitch.tv PRIMARY as their affiliate marketing channel.
   • They promise bonuses and campaigns for underage people and gambling addicts.
   • These streams provide FALSE impression of casino games.
   • Streamers who have deals with casinos play with unrealistic bonuses that normal people do not get.
   • Some (not all) streamers are even absolute scammers who play with fake accounts.
   • Streamers don´t give viewers realistic image of their affiliate or other casino connections.
   • Streamers don't provide enough information about dangers of gambling or age limitations in casinos. It's profitable for them if underage makes account to casino.

   This all concerns me. I don´t have anything against these people and I have nothing against casino games but recently these streams have gotten out of hand.

   There are too much ONLY affiliate based streams and Casino Staff streams. They give biased impression to viewers of Casino games.

   These streamers play thousands Euros each month with money that is only partly their own or not their own at all.
   They get big wins. It gives false image of casino games to viewers. People get idea that they can win big when their chances are slim or less.

   These streamers have so good affiliate deals that they deposit few hundred to get thousands to play with.
   Some streamers get directly paid from casinos and they use Casinos own money.

   Casino games are gambling. These streamers are NOT gambling in the same way they try to get their viewers to gamble.
   Their deal is so good that they have very slim chance to lose. Even if they lose, they lose less money than they get paid by their affiliate deal or casino.
   That is not gambling, that is marketing and their primary marketing tool is Twitch.TV. They are working to recruit new gamblers.

   Because they are not gambling, they do not provide realistic image of casino games.

   These streamers encourage people to create accounts to online casinos without telling that underage people won't be able to get their moneys or winnings withdrawn. How ever most of their viewers are underage.

   I ask Twitch.TV with all respect to consider some of these steps to issue this problem:

   • Ban all casino gaming
   • Make stream limitations for casino games ( 70% of streamers weekly stream hours should be something else than casino games)
   • Ban casino sponsored streams and affiliate marketing while streaming Casino Games
   • Make Casino streamers to make sure their viewers are 18yo or above.
   • Make Casino game streamers to publish their connection with casinos and their affiliate deals so viewers get realistic impression.
   • Make Casino streamers to provide information of gambling addiction and provide information where to get help.

   Recently I've noticed that new only casino streamers are coming to Twitch every day and it concerns me:

   My concerns are:

   • They use Twitch.tv PRIMARY as their affiliate marketing channel.
   • They promise bonuses and campaigns for underage people and gambling addicts.
   • These streams provide FALSE impression of casino games.
   • Streamers who have deals with casinos play with unrealistic bonuses that normal people do not get.
   • Some (not all) streamers are even absolute scammers who play with fake accounts.
   • Streamers don´t give viewers realistic image of their affiliate or other casino connections.
   • Streamers don't provide enough information about dangers of gambling… more
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5. Ability to block of viewing live stream by IP address for fighting with "stream sniping"

   I have a server for playing. Too many users watch stream and use information from it in the game. I know IP address of each players on my server and want to have ability to ban them on twitch. The idea is that when player connect to my server then my server call twitch API to ban user for viewing stream, when user exit from server then server will unban him.

   I think that it very good feature to help in fighting with stream snipers.

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6. mature button

   mature content button . However

   Even before accepting or declining the chat is shown, so you see all the stuff [ mature content as well ]

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7. Add a feature that bans an email, instead of just the account, it would then be harder to create new accounts to troll

   Add a feature that bans an email, instead of just the account, it would then be harder to create new accounts to troll.

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8. Let users see a list of channels they're banned from chatting in.

   I guess it would make sense to put this somewhere in the User's settings, but it would be convenient for a user to see a list of all channels that they're banned from chatting in. Channels can currently see all the users who are banned from chatting in their channel, but what about a list of channels that have banned the user from chatting in their chats. This would also make it easier to figure out which channels to speak to and try to get unbanned from.

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9. Vote banning or muting

   A mod can't always be watching or all knowing, why not let the chat be allowed to decide who is spamming or being rude to the streamer. I propose a system in which a person in chat can select the person who is being disruptive and issue a stream wide vote. If majority or a certain number of people vote yes they will be banned (or muted) for a certain amount of time. Maybe if they are banned through this system mutiple times they will get increasing longer bans. This system will allow a chat keep itself tidy without the presence of a mod or bring attention to a mod of a disruptive chat member. This could he done simply with the help of a moderator bot. Which should always be present when a streamer is active.

   A mod can't always be watching or all knowing, why not let the chat be allowed to decide who is spamming or being rude to the streamer. I propose a system in which a person in chat can select the person who is being disruptive and issue a stream wide vote. If majority or a certain number of people vote yes they will be banned (or muted) for a certain amount of time. Maybe if they are banned through this system mutiple times they will get increasing longer bans. This system will allow a chat keep itself tidy without the… more

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10. Ability to ignore mods

    As a mod, make it so you can ignore other mods in the channel you are modding in.

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11. The whisper feature has "Block whispers from people you don't follow" on by default. To stop harassment.

    I run a stream and sometimes people who are banned from chat can still harass people in chat by whispering to them. Most are not aware that they can turn whispers from people they don't follow off. This is a problem I'm seeing all over twitch after the addition of whisper. It would be more user friendly if it was on by default. Thankyou :)

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12. Implement an ignored users list

    I would like Twitch to implement an ignored users list, accessible via settings page, with the ability to at least view the users that are currently on one's /ignore list. Bonus points for allowing us to also add/remove users from said list via the same page.

    I know this functionality is already available via third-party tools and it's not a high priority feature, would just like to see it on the road map if it isn't already.

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13. Make it Easier to Avoid Harrassment

    There needs to be a way to completely ban a user from entering your channel and seeing your profile/streams. There's been a Twitch partner that's been straight up stalking me and they do nothing about it. The most I can do is ban him from the chat. It doesn't stop him from showing up when I stream (which makes me feel extremely uncomfortable), or when I'm hosting someone.

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14. IP Ban from channel

    IP Ban makes it possible to permanently ban a user with the same IP Address, thus not allowing them to crate other account to try and troll/spam, etc.

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    Relevant Update  ·  Ana responded

    We apply IP bans in Chat based on users' Moderation actions in certain cases. We don't currently plan to publicize the logic we use because we think it would make it easier for bad actors to bypass the restriction.