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We’re happy to announce that we have released an additional update to address these concerns. Streamers can now prevent their banned users from watching their livestreams. You can find and turn on this feature in the Moderation settings section of the Creator Dashboard, through the “Stop banned users from viewing stream” toggle.
Please note, this update 1). does not prevent users from watching livestreams from an incognito window or while logged out and 2). does not prevent users from viewing VODs, clips or highlights. We plan to explore extending the functionality of bans further, including but not limited to preventing VOD and clip playback.
In addition, we’ve made an update so that users that are blocked will now automatically be blocked from watching a streamer’s livestreams.
We will leave this thread open for your other points regarding preventing view of other content types and account creation.
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I was about to suggest the exact same thing but I saw your post and decided to vote for it instead. Something that I usually discuss often with several creators is shadowbanning, in more complex cases where a particular viewer have developed codependency towards the streamer and is unwilling to accept that they are no longer welcomed in a community, a simple ban won't stop them. And these viewers quite often react in a very aggressive way after seeing that they are banned each time they create a new account, they try to find other ways to harm the streamer, blame the moderators, harass them outside the channel, go after other community members, etc. In these cases we concluded that the best thing we can do is to shadowban the person, and just ignore their messages until they get tired and leave (a streamer commented me that they would like to have the ability to hide/unhide restricted messages to them for their own mental health). Additionally in a lot of cases streamers don't think a person should be banned but if their messages are particularly triggering or make other people in the community uncomfortable and in order to create a peaceful environment without confrontation, hiding this person's messages temporarily with this feature could be useful.
The system as it is now could achieve these tasks if it didn't display the alert to the restricted user. Also I didn't know that the messages weren't displayed in the mod view, that is definitely something that should be implemented to be able to report and audit moderation actions in the future.