Reports and Bans of scam accounts needs updating (hardware bans over IP bans)
There needs to be a bigger fight against spam and scam accounts for twitch users. as a very small streamer, nothing is more annoying than finally getting a viewer or follower after hours of streaming just to get a msg with a link to buy viewers or an ask to be added on discord (to data mine or scam off of twitch, hoping to evade account bans on twitch). There's thousands of them, acounts created every hour for this exact purpose almost exclusively coming from pakistan or nigeria (based on twitch's own viewer data in the stream summary). Theres got to be a better way to track these accounts and ban them before they continue to scam anyone who doesnt know enough abotu online safety, IP tracking/bans, hardware tracking/bans, literally anything. Its genuinely one of the most frusterating things for small streamers as we can stream for hours with little to no interaction and then later find out 90% of the interaction we did get was from scammers who couldve EASILY been dealt with before they got to our channels. Ive had 4 in the last HOUR ive been live as of posting this, all accounts created within the last 3 hours. Even the auto moderation monitors them for "suspected ban evader", it knows but wont do anything until i physically report EVERY.SINGLE.ONE.
Please twitch team, think of some way to better fix this reporting and ban system so it can create a healthier twitch user experience for your smaller streamers (which is about 99% of your userbase)