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Add a "Charity" button to Twitch. Put an end to charity fraud.

Charity streams and fundraisers in which viewers are induced to Subscribe to a channel, or send a lump-sum payment directly to a Broadcaster's PayPal, unnecessarily expose streamers to liability and viewers to fraud. This practice is for the most part largely unregulated on Twitch. If Twitch is not going to moderate this practice, then I implore them to create alternative, legitimate tools for Broadcasters who wish to raise money for charity.

My suggestion is to introduce a "Charity" button similar to the "Subscribe" button, with all money going directly to a designated registered charity. This could be a page hosted on Twitch similar to the Subscription page, or a direct link to an official DonorDrive page for the registered charity. Ideally, it would be possible for this process to hook into the Twitch API in some way, so that streaming tools could be written that track viewer contributions in the same way that they already do for Subscriptions.

There are many reasons why such a tool would be of benefit to Twitch, its community and charities. I feel that it would also quash potential fraud and further legitimize Twitch as a platform for charitable causes in gaming.

I posted this suggestion on the r/Twitch and you can read some of the existing feedback here: http://www.reddit.com/r/Twitch/comments/4e12i4

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Completed  ·  darkstorm responded  · 

Hey there everyone! Happy to announce that Twitch now has a Charity feature!!!

You can learn all about this new feature here: https://t.co/gtQvjQa62k

If you have any questions please reach out to our support team at help.twitch.tv, and if you have any feedback for us regarding Charity, please leave your suggestions and Charity requests here.

Thanks everyone!

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  • UpDownLeftDie commented  ·   ·  Report

    Alongside this, discourage streamers to stop saying "donate/donation" when they mean tip.

  • mrbobbinsonogs commented  ·   ·  Report

    I want to become an affiliate on twitch. but I want the money from adds, bits, and subscriptions to go straight to charity via Stream Labs Charity. Right now there is not a way to do that, twitch wants your SSN for payment, but that seems like a ton of hassle during tax season.

  • Ken_Koerperich commented  ·   ·  Report

    Agreed!

    Way to many times I've "seen" and do "see" constantly Streamers posting "Charity" and receiving tons of $$, yet less than a day or two later, they are doing another one.....

    I feel they are using this to get paid/make a living and charities are getting squat.

    Force them to use a "button" that actually has a charity addy/account that gets direct deposited.....

  • Fangnight224 commented  ·   ·  Report

    I can see this working very well in the long run if this is implemented :)

  • ruggbean commented  ·   ·  Report

    As a person who would love to possibly do charity streams in the future and who works with a charity streamer, I think that this would be a great idea.

    Firstly, it would make it much easier on streamers who want to track money for their charitable causes. Donate directly to the charity and you do not have a hand on a single cent of that money. No chance for it to get lost and no chance for something to happen to it, either because of a bad streamer or an exterior event. Likewise, you have a tracker, much like the sub/donation/bit metrics, that tells you how much money you raised for charity on a monthly basis.

    Secondly, for those that do charity and take that money from their subs/donations/bits paycheck, it allows streamers to fully separate the money that they get from their viewers and take more of it home, especially if this is their full time job.

  • Captain_Quench commented  ·   ·  Report

    I love the idea of gifting subs, but I'd love to have the ability to set any subs or bits I get to be donated to a charity like Extra Life or St Jude.

    Really the concept would be if a streamer is doing a charity stream there would be an option to have in the dashboard "Turn on donate sub, bits, etc" so any subs, resubs and bits earned that stream would go to the charity of choice

  • zomgitssoup commented  ·   ·  Report

    Idk, this kinda seems a bit much. If you are worried about a streamer running off with the money you wanted to donate to charity then why don't you just donate to the charity and not the charity stream? There you go problem averted.

  • Patrick Faith Holt commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is probably the best Twitch suggestion I've ever seen. I've heard too many stories of people fund raising for charity, and then actually end up running with the money, a long with some other scams that I won't mention.

    I think this is definitely a MUST have for Twitch.

  • JohnA commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch changed from a niche company to a true new media company when Amazon acquired them.

    I would like to see the large corporate entity that Amazon is allow its content creators to give back to the world through asking for support for any legitimate cause that appeals to them. As a consumer of the content, I would like Amazon to assist in protecting myself and my fellow consumers from scams.

  • Mai Clement commented  ·   ·  Report

    As a charity streamer, this would make my life SO much easier.