Allow Streamers to Remove Followers (eg. Banned Chatters and/or Trolls)
Please allow streamers to remove people from their follower's list. As a small streamer, I struggle with trolls, and I have made many streamer friends who have had the same experiences as me. On more than one occasion I have banned a troll from chat and had them return with upwards of 3 other accounts, sometimes even up to 10 or 15 other accounts during one stream. (Keep in mind my average stream is about 2.5 hours, and I try my best to not acknowledge or encourage the trolls at all, I just ban them and move on.) They follow each time they return, adding new but empty follows to the follower count.
I have had trolls return with new usernames that target my mods, or reference something that was said earlier in the stream, or even referencing their past usernames that were previously banned. Their follows are meaningless because they will likely never return with that account that they made to troll a specific streamer.
Many streamers try to keep track of their follower to viewer ratio as they grow. To see what they're doing wrong or right, and to see what helps them grow or makes them lose followers. Having those empty follows of people who will never return is quite a problem.
Here are a few of my suggestions:
Automatically removing someone from the follower's list if they get banned in chat.
Giving streamers the option to view their banned chatters list and manually remove the follow themselves.
Remove the option to make multiple accounts with one verified email address. (This enables trolls to make new accounts in just a couple of minutes and quickly return to keep harassing a streamer)
If a streamer has banned several usernames that share the same email, allow the streamer to ban the entire email address and any associated usernames.
If a streamer has banned several usernames that share the same email, allow the streamer to remove any and all usernames that are associated with that email from their follower list.
Trolls will not keep me from streaming, but implementing at least one (if not several) of these ideas would be a huge help to me and many other streamers out there. Thank you for your time and consideration!
You have a lot of different suggestions here, the latter of which have not been implemented, but I wanted to let the thread know that we have recently released the ability to remove followers from your list by Blocking them. https://twitter.com/TwitchSupport/status/1243643979897417730?s=20
You can see how to Block a user here: https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/how-to-manage-harassment-in-chat#BlockWhispersandMessagesfromStrangers Additionally, you can see your channel Banned Chatters in your Moderation Preferences in the Dashboard https://dashboard.twitch.tv/settings/moderation
Please post the other points as separate ideas. Thank you.
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JustCallMeSlake commented
The problem with these reports is that you can only send 15-20 of them at a time. There I was, trying to report 300 bots every day, for a targeted attack that kicked off pretty much when I became affiliated. It would be good if we could report bots in bulk.
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MrSam_Derp_Man commented
Use commanderroot, you can unfollow somebody from your channel and make sure they cant come back.
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CrotchetyGamer commented
The hoss raid is absolutely annoying. We need a way to easily remove them from our follower list.
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PlokGamingTwitch commented
I would absolutely like mods to be able to block user on the broadcasters behalf. This should be a thing as soon as possible.
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BassBoomBox commented
I would love this as I just got bot bombed twice and have 13k followers that are bots. I'm afraid to use the extension that's not from Twitch as I don't want to accidentally delete everyone.
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Ephemeridian commented
This functionality exists in the API (and there are third party tools like CommanderRoot's that use it). There is no reason this shouldn't be part of the standard UX.
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darthclide commented
jric420 They needed to implement a better banning system years ago. Which includes bans that automatically block whispers from the banned user to anyone that is following your channel. It would instead have a popup letting your follower know that the person trying to communicate is banned in x stream for the following reason: doxxing.
Heck, they need to let streamers have access to an IP ban button that once pressed:
Twitch compares that IP to see if it is a VPN, or a static IP and if so, allows the IP ban. This ban will last 12 months.
If it is a dynamic IP (ie used by many people), it is based off how many streamers have pressed the IP ban button on your account. Since it is dynamic, this IP ban will only last 6 months in case a non-troll happens across this IP and wants to watch Twitch without a VPN. To avoid bots abusing it, they could require the stream have some combination of x follows, x hours streamed, x average concurrent viewers, and x subs. -
thegreatswinee commented
A small streamer that I mod for keeps falling into the trap of follow bots and it gets annoying as it keeps hitting so many times on different days lately. I wish there was a way for mods or even editors (since they're more trusted) if its better, to have a section where they can see the followers list and be able to quick select and remove their following along with ban them instead of having to click on every single account or typing out every single account's name, especially when follow bots come in a big bunch and it becomes tedious to do one by one.
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Typhon_Plume commented
While not a bad idea, I just stick the troll/banned chatter etc on my ban list myself. That way I keep the follow count but they don't have the ability to interact with me or those that interact with me that are decent people. To me that's a good way to give them the finger and say thanks for the follow regardless.
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itmkoeln commented
@mouse
Is there any hope we can see this as a release for user that the streamer trusts (i.e moderators with dashboard editor permission)?
A "sudo /Block"
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jric420 commented
I wonder what I can do about a person who is banned and blocked checking In my chat for viewers and messaging them individually to try and convince them to stop following me.Is there a way to keep them out of my personal business or better yet off of my page completely?
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Jannek commented
There is a tool by CommanderRoot.
https://twitch-tools.rootonline.de/follower_remover.php -
TheBlooPixie commented
All of this!!!
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Anonymous commented
this does need to happen, some people been getting harassed occasionally with fake follows from follow bots, be great to remove them if we could, some people just love to harass others with bots and that's just wrong
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anonymous commented
I honestly agree with this feature. I've been getting harassed on Twitch for almost a year now by a small community on Twitch which came from another streamer. I've even tried reporting it to Twitch and they kept turning me around to 24/7 Moderator Staff by click on the report button on the persons channel instead of me just reporting it through customer service. It's a disgrace!
I've even had proof to back it up and Twitch doesn't seem to care. Currently, I am on break from streaming and plan to return to a brand new account. Yes, I had to make a new account just to get a break from all this **** because it's effected my mental health. The worst part is I suffer from Asperger's Autism which makes it even more harder for me to want to come back to Twitch.
This feature needs to happen because there could be more people out there suffering a similar fate as I have. I want Twitch to finally help those people including myself. It breaks my heart honestly that a platform I've streamed on for 6-7 years doesn't seem to care about the safety and well-being of it's streamers and viewers.
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GarageGuyCarl commented
As a channel owner and Affiliate on Twitch, I find it hard to believe that this kind tool/option has not been implemented as of yet. This kind of option should be available to all levels of streamers, beginning, affiliate and beyond.
I have had accounts that contain personal information and slanderous character defamation in them that even after they have been banned still remain on the followers page.
THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE!!!
As a user of the Twitch platform, I realize that it is not my call as to what is allowable and not, yet as a PG-13 Streamer/Entertainer trying to add to the platform in a positive way, it is next to impossible to stay focused on putting out a positive stream when this sort of activity can't be discouraged. -
SOTSxxxUndertaker commented
I moderate for some small to medium channels on Twitch,and this problem has been really insane as of late. During the entire summer,and abit before that,and till this date,i have been filing tons of reports of threats,harassement and even ban evading violations to Twitch. But there is no real actions seen taken up till this point. One of the specific streamers has reached affiliate quite some time ago,but it seems like Twitch doesnt really bother,as long as you are not "big enough" in theyr eyes. How about this being a administrative tool that you get once you hit affiliate at least,to remove trolls that has been banned from your followers list? And the other ideas mentioned by the publisher
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eugeneprunk commented
I can delete followers from my Instagram. Why can't I do the same thing here on Twitch?
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Australis Fishing commented
It is very disappointing that there is no actions taken against trolls on twitch.
I have had trolls ring me on my mobile , contact my wife on facebook and continually harass me from user names that I have banned time and time again.
Also I have had these low lifes make accounts using my real name and names as their user names.
It is very disappointing that nothing is really done about it.
The worst thing that twitch has done is allowed people to have multiple accounts from the same email address.
If someone gets banned on twitch they should not only be banned from a channel they should be kicked from the servers as they should not be allowed the privilege of being on the platform.
Also on another note . I cannot call twitch to speak about this as they do not have a contact phone number that i can speak with someone.
I am a customer of twitch and when i am harassed in my streams it affects my ability to entertain the people that matter and also derive some return from my efforts.
twitch really needs to take a hard nose stance towards these people as we re clients and deserve support -
치즈큐브 commented
This is not only a problem with streamers but also viewers. My account was followed by users with IDs for ****** harassment, and my followers list is full of their dirty traces. This can be a way of unrestrained rage and attack on viewers who are biting or subscribing while watching certain broadcasts.