d4rkfader You are kind of hijacking a thread about permanently removing banned people from watching a stream by talking about removing perma-bans from Twitch. If someone bans you they probably don't want your support anymore (both financially and as a viewer).

And I am unsure what you mean by "read-only chat"? You can already view chat without being logged in and sub only mode doesn't stop you from seeing chat? If anything, we need "followers for X amount of time" chat restriction to expand to "can only see other's chat messages after following for X amount of time".

I got banned from two streamers because of a two-strike rule (like mentioning other VTubers) breaking on one of the associated Discord servers. These kind of moderators of course flat-out rejected the appeal too and forever banned as such. Even a week or month would be better than forever. And add a way to stay subscribed and add silent support options. And read-only chat.
Banning as it is now is too harsh. Also, I had gifted subs to others for both of the channels, but I can’t give any more support because of the ban.

This would mean also people that are not logged it shouldn’t be able to view it. Also, some moderators place preventive bans on every channel you may be on if you break the rules on Discord for example. It’d be rather harsh imho to block all viewing.

Well you cant since you can watch streams without an account.

NeonP1xels Sounds like my suggestion is exactly what you want: HWID bans. This would stop them from viewing or loading your channel from whichever computer/smartphone they are loading it from. The added bonus is that if they naively just jump to another device without logging out on it first, that device will automatically get HWID banned as well.

But there is basically nothing you can do to stop them from viewing with no account logged in until Twitch adds a feature called "require logged in account to view my stream". But even then, how will you know who the kids are if they don't talk? I guess Twitch could add an option that requires a few messages spoken every hour to watch your stream, but you can see how unfeasible and unfair things get when you want a "perfect" system.

I think HWID bans + no viewing allowed without an account logged in would help you a bit, as well as greatly help those dealing with severe harassment and doxxing.

First of all, my full support to people being harassed, and I second the need for tools to manage the problem.

My personal need for this functionality is different, and I'd like to point it out:

On my streams I often have adult-oriented content, not "porny", but rather adult subject matters in the conversation, as well as games with content I don't think younger audiences should watch without parental supervision/consent.

I do my best to clearly signal this content, not only by enabling the "mature audiences" switch, but by adding a 18+ tag to the stream title, as well as icons indicating the content (explained in my panels).
I even have a glowing neon 18+ sign on-screen and even more warning labels.

None of this prevents kids from popping up (and kids being kids, it probably encourages some of them), and none of this prevents parents from being concerned when their kids bring up the funny thing that twitch person said.

Since kindly (or not so kindly) telling kids that they shouldn't be watching without their parents knowing doesn't work, I sometimes need the ability to not just ban them from chat, but to make sure they can't watch (parents won't care that the chat is disabled if they can hear my ramblings about adult subject matters on the speakers).

And I'm sure there are many more use cases where being able to block people from viewing the stream is desirable.

I understand that this is not a trivial issue to solve, given how people can just make sockpuppet accounts or the like. Just wanted to share another scenario where this functionality might be needed.

That would have to be optional, since the only way it could work would be to make it so that you need to be logged in to watch streams, and that means that many streams would lose a lot of viewers if it was forced.

The tech is already there to restrict people from watching sub only streams, why not work with it to restrict people who are banned in the same manner?

Why not just replace the stream with ads for the banned users? Twitch get's more ad money and the streamers lives get that much easier

This idea is unenforceable without a massive overall of how Twitch functions imo. What's preventing them from just viewing and stream sniping by logging out of Twitch? There's no way to prevent someone from stalking someone on Twitch unless they require everyone to have an account and be logged in before viewing streams. Even then, the bar Twitch / Amazon has set for account creation is so ridiculously low that some trolls already have literally hundreds of throwaway accounts; plus VPNs are a thing (which should also be banned).

@ElleRows brilliant suggestion. One thing trolls love to do is stir up drama and then sit back and watch everything unfold in an incognito window. Forcing them out into the light allows streamers to ban accounts that look suspicious.

That being said, Twitch could get rid of a lot of moderator struggles by adding a HWID ban system. These kinds of things existed all the way back in the days of Battlefield 2 and I would bet most streamers would be glad to see such a tool implemented even if it slightly invades the privacy of user's systems (similar to steam's hardware surveys)

If "Edit Stream info: audience: only subscribers" feature was updated to include only logged in viewers would be great to be included in this

When will banned accounts be fully blocked from viewing the stream as well as entire channel? I've been harassed by multiple people post-ban because they are still able to watch my stream and know what games I'm playing. I've had someone install a new game, find my lobby, and harass me in that game begging to be unbanned. I had someone find my discord (because they could view my channel information), join it, and repeatedly CALL ME. I had someone follow me in a raid, months after I banned them, because they continued to watch my stream. That person proceeded to try and talk to me through the other streamer's chat because their chat was overlaid on the stream. This is absolutely unacceptable and dangerous for streamers. Please do something.

Please make this happen!

This should have been a thing since day 1

Awesome. Please twitch, make this!

instead of banning someone n chat and waiting for an ip ban that failed the simple task of accounting for vpn.

so Ip ban on command, Mac address Ban on Command, and Hardware ID Ban on Commannd.

Creators and mods of choice would have access, however if a mod triggers any of these it needs to be voted on by 3 other mods ad would trigger a pop up in modview or chatterino.

When a user is banned from chat that user will sometimes come back with another account and cause more problems.

Im sorry, youre not getting it. twitch users are insulting and harassing people they ban and acting very ******, being very ******, and are encouraging being ******.

baned users cant clip that behavior to report it, and leaves them in a dark hole. Just change it by having clips only viewable to twitch staff for mods or in the report tab, have an option to include a clip for review. not that hard to understand that by including people who have been harassed by the twitch streamers in the group of people who can properly use twitches moderation tools youre helping create a healthier community, instead of the toxic one i am seeing it become, as quickly like a first wave of covid turns bad when no one cares to wear masks when in public.

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