To anonymous, if you've actually read the proposal you'll have noticed these are measures to help protect streamers from stalkers and harassment, which is made easier by the current state of the platform which allows near anonymous accounts.
Other problems, however valid, have no bearing on this.
How coincidental is it the only negative comment (so far) has been made by someone anonymous?

Why put effort into measures that can be easily and quickly circumvented & most people are already aware of how to do this? It's like being a radio station - you can add all these preventative measures, but you can't stop idiots from calling the radio station short of taking away all the phones nearby. Even then, they can still listen to the radio.

You're asking for a private streaming feature and it's just gonna cause problems down the road. There's enough issues with copyrighted stuff and trolls re-streaming adult stuff.

The complete cutoff from banned profiles is good security, as today, I had a Ubuntu Host Spider Bot named "electricallongboard" and other such Bots, turn back on my turning off of channel auto-hosting, and a bogus complaint about music rights in War Thunder, was there. This must STOP, who owns TwitchTV? the Rightful Creators? or the Bots?

This is a good idea but maybe it shouldn't be the same as banning. Maybe a "block all contact/communication" feature that could do all this. Banning from a chat is a lot different than blocking someone from everything. Accidental bans happen and making banning do all this effect too many innocent ppl in the end.

I second all of this. The community guidelines imply that it's the streamer's responsibility to have the chat moderated but these kind of loopholes allow abusers to continue harassing & disturbing the broadcasters & the chat. Which is why it's essential for the broadcasters to have the option to deny channel content for different types of viewers!

When you ban someone, they should be banned from viewing your stream as well as not being able to chat in your chat

So we do need some security measure like this.. How about banning the IP?

It isn't fun being stalked online, and have players follow you in the game griefing you from lobby to lobby non-stop for like two days in a row. I already "reported" the individual for this, but he/she will be able to view my stream if they (Twitch) do not take the situation seriously, and he/she will continue to stalk I, and another streamer, in game. It's a pestilence, and harassment. If they're not going to give some sort of measure in somehow banning an individual from accessing another's stream to stalk people, then I hope Twitch perma bans this individual. It's just flat out creepy.

@LordBoogzor but this ties into Twitch's complacency about updating their flawed whisper system. It doesn't matter if the OP suggestion is accepted, when they can simply whisper anyone on all of twitch even if they were banned from ALL streams in existence...

That being said, I firmly believe that trolls get a kick out of getting a notification from a stream they are banned from, watching a stream they are banned from, and seeing a chat they are banned from. The icing on the cake is whispering insults to viewers such as "this streamer is a pedophile". Please Twitch, help the small streamers!

Hej there, yesterday i had a troll in my channel. Nothing special...

Ignored him, banned him without reaction. Done
5 Mins later hes back with a new account. 1 sentence - banned.
5 Mins later hes back with a new account. 1 sentence - banned.

I know, it is not possible to turn this off, but why does a Ban not include the ban of the Ip? Yes, the User could restart his Router/modem, get a new Ip and come back, but this would be a lot more work then just creating a new account.

If this is possible, maybe this would be an idea to make the life of trolls harder a little bit.

Host ignore would be nice at a twitch level, especially if it was parallel to banned user accounts, but blocking a viewer from watching your stream will never be implemented. It has been discussed elsewhere on here, just look for IP Ban or something in the search on the right and you'll find that that feature is infeasible.

It would be nice to block a specific user to host and even view my stream. I worked hard to get my viewers and for someone who is mean to me, doesn' t deserve any followers or viewers watching my stream.

Good idea but all they have to do to get around it is to log out. So it would not be so effective imo. It would need an IP ban option for it to really take effect.

Shadow banning would be nice, their messages appear to send but don't, and the stream appears online for them, but it's not the actual stream.

Anonymous, yes, something like that (stream ban, full ban) should be a possibility (hopefully) in case we get any stalkers or rude people coming back and trying to cause more uncomfort on the streams.

This is totally a great idea, but I consider calling this "getting stream banned" like Twitch should have a streamban button. I believe ya dude.

Shad0w1988, that is true, but if they keep it up, then we can report users, and they might get IP Banned or Suspended from gaining access to Twitch's website.

they just make a new account if they get fully banned

There should be a new ban feature in which broadcasters and moderators can "fully ban" a user from the stream by stopping the video stream, removing them off of the viewer list, and hiding both the video and the messages in the chat (Basically give them a blank page with the message saying "You are fully banned from this channel.") so that banned users won't have to stalk broadcasters or cause any rude behavior on their streams anymore.

Yes, they could. Which is what they do now, except they're able to completely watch the stream whether they take the time to create a new account/log out or not.

Instead of just having them removed from chat, isn't it sensible and possible to have banned and/or blocked users completely removed from the channel altogether instead of just from chat? This would be separate from time outs and purges, and would be intended to keep harassing viewers from being able to use donate links (unless saved elsewhere) and from watching the stream at all. (Unless a new account is used obviously). Like, maybe a button that allows the streamer/editor of a channel to full-ban or full-block the specified user.