I'd like a setting that prevents Raids from accounts that haven't completed email or phone number verification.
(This text was translated from Japanese using DeepL. It may be a little difficult to read.)
Hello. This is my first time posting a request.
This is a request regarding Raid settings. If I’ve posted this in the wrong category, I’d appreciate it if you could let me know.
The community I belong to is under a barrage of harassment attacks from numerous throwaway accounts. (The perpetrator is likely a single person.)
On my channel, I’ve restricted chat posts and follows to accounts that have completed email or phone number verification, and since I’ve also implemented a moderation bot, my chat isn’t being spammed.
However, something happened when I launched a raid on another channel.
The channel I had chosen as my raid target was hit by a series of raids from obvious throwaway accounts that included my channel name.
As a result, the chat log for the channel I had designated as my raid target was flooded with a continuous stream of raid notification messages, and raid alerts kept popping up repeatedly on my stream screen.
Since my channel is protected by filters and moderators and cannot be directly attacked, the attacker resorted to harassing me by targeting other channels I am involved with.
As of June 2026, when configuring channel settings for Twitch Raids, you can set the following three restrictions as requirements for channels to be eligible for Raids:
Minimum number of viewers
Maximum number of viewers
Minimum number of days since account creation
In addition to the three restrictions mentioned earlier, it would be reassuring if the “Email Verification” and “Mobile Phone Number Verification” settings—which are currently found under the chat and follow moderation settings—were added to the Raid permission settings.
This is because it would prevent Raids from disposable accounts that haven’t completed email verification.
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Additional notes.
I’ll explain why we requested the ability to configure whether email or mobile phone number verification is required, even though the “Minimum number of days since account creation” setting still exists in the channel settings that allow raids.The accounts harassing us are almost certainly throwaway accounts. However, we don’t know how long each of these accounts remains active.
That said, if we set the “minimum number of days since account creation” value too high, while we may prevent harassment from throwaway accounts, we also run the risk of rejecting Raids from innocent new users.We determined that relying solely on the “Minimum Days Since Account Creation” setting would make it difficult to create a healthy environment that prevents attacks from disposable accounts while still allowing raids from innocent users, which is why we are making this proposal.