Activeenergy
Apricotdrupefruit
Host_giveaway
P0sitivitybot
Sickfold
Skinnyseahorse
Slocool

These guys are always in my chat even when I'm not streaming.

Please for the love of gord do something about this.

Benutzer

Activeenergy

Commanderroot

Electricallongboard

Host_giveaway

P0sitivitybot

I saw the user ActiveEnergy on stream. He actually has a real channel and panels and all. I went in and asked about why he was in my chat:

I started "Um.. can I ask why are you in my chat ?"
He said "What the fuck are you on about you're not even live! And I don't even speak your language! Its a bug!"
To that I replied "So you don't mind me banning you from my channel since, you know, its not you..."
And then I got instantly banned.

Sounds like someone overreacting because they don't want to get caught. I obviously reported this filth for botting and for being rude on top of that in the Other TOS violations section. I encourage all of you seeing activeenergy in your chat to do the same. If he cares about his channel he'll have to respect fellow streamers first.

Consider this my vote to make bans purge bots from our channels. One can only hope...

Maddening as hell. I cannot tell who is legit viewers over the wretched bots. Give me some channel control back twitch, I want to purge anyone not generating views.

With group gifting subs, bots now become a form of theft. Gift subs received by a bot can then be redirected to the controllers channel

It's now more than just a nuisance.

-Sy_Fox

Currently the bots I've added to blacklist: { "p0sitivitybot", "skinnyseahorse", "electricalskateboard",
"bananennanen", "commaderroot", "communityshowcase", "activeenergy",
"avocadobadado", "electricallongboard", "laf21", "n0tahacker_", "sickfold",
"slocool", "teyd_", "teyd__", "thefirstdemon", "ogqp", "kingnosebleed",
"jade_elephant_association", "lanfusion", "himekoelectric", "shoutgamers",
"0_applebadapple_0", "v_and_k", "apricotdrupefruit", "fossabot", "n3td3v",
"8rose", "philderbeast", "decafsmurf", "faegwent", "thronezilla", "cogwhistle",
"woppes", "mwmwmwmwmwmwmwmmwmwmwmwmw", "zanekyber" }

It's getting out of hand with new bots showing up every week, Twitch seriously needs to do something about this. I'm going to make a protest bot that will connect to Twitch via vpn connections and spam Twitch admin channels/pm's until they do something about it. I would urge everyone to do the same sort of thing, keep messaging/emailing them about the issue until they listen.

Some of these bots are being used maliciously recording your chat data for marketing purposes and selling it to 3rd parties.

Twitch needs to add an option to disallow bots from joining your channel without permission and make it a bannable offence for users to join a channel with unwanted botting intentions. Or have the ban command prevent a user from viewing the chat/stream entirely and add an option to only allow registered/verified users to view your chat/stream - this would also reduce harassment.

As a very new streamer on Twitch I get very few viewers - currently peaking at 5 or 6 most streams - but even to me, a mere layman compared to most, I can see that there are a lot of bot's exploding into Twitch channels. I however am not a NOOB when it comes to internet security, I know that these bots are very capable of applying some very nasty and potentially malicious code. The ability of a bot is way beyond most peoples imagination. IP address, browser tracking, banking records, anything and everything you do online is open to abuse from these bot's.

I ask you @Twitch.tv how do you propose to protect us from this threat, a very clear and present danger to not only your 'bread winning' streamers/content creators, but also to all of their viewers.

THIS MUST END!!!

I want uninvited bot's out of my chat A.S.A.P!

#BotsOut!

bananennanen
commanderrott
laf21
n0tahacker_
p0sitivitybot
sickfold
skinnyseahorse
slocool
teyd__
thefirstdemon

are all sitting in my chat and there is nothing I can do. This is absolutely frustrating and takes away from my ability to connect with the small amount of people that ACTUALLY come to my channel. Skinnyseahorses' channel bio is a straight up troll saying how he is doing nothing wrong and that there is nothing you can do about it.

Something has to change.

And the abuse goes on & on.

"ogqp" a botviewer AND supporting 2007 school massacre Finland via bio & avatar. !!!
"teyd__" yet another bot without any clear purpose information given.

Twitch does nothing... Simple proper morals are not for winners by any means apparently.

Please i find them everywhere and they cause more harm then good

Exactly @Ay Jay. I have been requesting this for years now. While it won't stop trolls from finding ways to harass the stream, it will make it much much more difficult.

In addition to this, the whisper system needs to be tied into bans. It should at least warn a user that the whisper they are receiving, comes from a user who is banned in a channel that they follow. Even better is if the streamer can customize the warning message. For example: "This user was banned from darthclide's stream for non stop verbal abuse and doxxing" or "This user was banned from darthclide's stream for racial slurs".

Absolutely need to be able to ban this junk. Ban should mean "prevent from joining" not "prevent from talking".

Off-Topic, kind of...

We need to have the ability to show reply to specific posts. Entirely too many opportunities for people to take sht out of context. lol

@Aiden Wallis...

I feel you need to re-read @Evelyn McKnight's post/request. Or was this just your way of promoting your bot?? I'm confused why you would respond that way.

Anyway, you are correct @Evelyn McNight. We should have the ability, as streamers, to remove ANY viewer. Any viewer, regardless it's purpose on our channel.

Ok, I'll be nicer. "Bot A" would reference chat/stream bots that you have to authorize to work in moderation with the stream. "Bot B" would reference what I believe @Evelyn McKnight is referring to as a lurking bot that just sits there collecting stream/chat data, and no other purpose. IMHO

@Evelyn McKnight,

Wait, seriously? Okay, some of you REALLY don't know what these bots are or even how to compile lists.

I'm the owner of Fossabot, it is an OPT IN moderation bot service, you can't kick a bot that the streamer PHYSICALLY AUTHORISES AND GIVES MOD. Jeeeesus.

It's not a stalker bot, you can add it at fossabot.com - it's essentially similar to other bots like Nightbot, it is literally designed from the ground up to only join the channels that it is authorised to join. If the bot is in your channel... IT'S BECAUSE YOU ADDED IT.

Every week there's more of these damn bots, twitch is getting overrun with them and the twitch admins don't give a flying crap.

@Monkey As has been said before, this isn't just for the bots / data miners. It's also for the ability to keep unwanted people from being able to access channels. Unlike how banning them will still let them sit there, watch the stream only unable to chat. We want to be able to cut them off completely.

there is one mistake in here:
u can gather chat info even without any account. so u will not be able to ban these info-gatheres anyway because the info they are crawling is public anyway. apart from that, i understand your argument, but i am sorry, as said, that info is public anyway.

to: "n3td3v commented · September 16, 2018 2:08 PM
@Evelyn McKnight Your post from 091118 erroneously lists me (n3td3v) as a bot which I am by no means. I am not only a streamer supporter & promoter, but I am also a Twitch content creator much like yourself, and correct me if I am wrong here, but I do not believe I have ever been to your channel so therefore it would be wrong to lump sum me along with several others on your list as 'bots'. I only actively lurk the channels of my subscribers and other small streamers that have asked me for help in growing their channels because I SUPPORT ALL STREAMERS that want/need it. Also, I have personally talked to CommanderRoot on many occasion and I can testify that he is also not a bot, but actually Twitch staff."

I never stated you were in my channel, but I've seen in channels I moderate for, and I've gone through the list of all the people listed, and review behaviour, I had put you on the list because you were showing very similar signs of bot like behaviors, never stating anything and were amongst many of the bot channels. as for commander root, as I stated, states that he does lurk in many channels, has admitted to making a bot, other's confirm his bot, (I couldn't find the command to remove said bot from his channel or was it the one that was too long and assinine to use? like a big fuck you to your face if you ask me), and states that he doesn't record or even watch the streams, so it's not actually helping anyone, so why is he there really? This was a question I asked, and now being told he's twitch staff just makes it even a bigger Fuck you to our faces because they are basically running twitch like they are above their own rules. The rules are there for all to follow equally if the rules aren't followed, why even have them?! Are they not there to actually protect us, to help us? really, it's just... arrogant, and disgusting, I see he's a partner on twitch, nowhere did I see the twitch wrench or staff symbol by his name, but to allow that to continue to go on while we're are stating that we have a problem with this sort of behaviour? How are we not suppose to be pissed off by such actions?

If someone is a real person in my channel, I have no problem with them lurking, but it's getting harder and harder to tell who is and isn't real anymore because of this bullshit going on. Just a few weeks ago, even twitch staff accounts were compromised by bots, and they still haven't given us any options to protect our streams, the streams we moderate for, nor give any indication that viewers that add to reports is getting anything done. so excuse me if this bot situation is literally plaguing Twitch right now, and you might have gotten caught in the net by accident.

I have friends that use Chatty to lurk and help record chat logs for moderating purposes for our own channels (to prevent trolls from spreading their hate, etc etc), but they don't normally spend time in more than 60 channels, Chatty has a bit of a memory leak, and they still show up in those channels as a regular viewer, watch, comment, interact, sometimes lurk while they are off at work and what not. but these bots we see in more than 100's of channels at once, that's someone using a server or something much smoother than a typical home computer to be in all those channels at once. it's not often to find people that can lurk in so many channels due to internet limitations, or computer limitations etc. so that's probably the most likely red flag I saw from your username, and what many other's had seen, I'm not the only one that listed you if I recall, which is why I looked into it before making that list.

It's been a while, and searching these comments takes a little more time than I have today to do. I don't have time to recheck said list today to update for other's convenience right now. but we shouldn't be needing a list when all we're asking for is a simple kick option. but it's what we have to work with for right now.

@averageBot, it's amazing that someone doesn't fully read everything that's stated all through the comments, especially when mentioned that people have better things to do with their life, like actually LIVING THEIR LIFE outside of the internets, than needing to monitor something 24/7 on something that should be common sense, when the ToS clearly states that these are people breaking rules, but no one is doing anything about it... nice try shaming someone trying to do right for a community of hard-working streamers. Now buzz off, and let the real people make their statements.