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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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Hi, thanks for flagging this and sharing your suggestion.
We share and understand your concerns about how the intentional, repeated misuse of tags can undermine the purpose of the tags product itself. Tags are an important discoverability feature for communities, and a powerful way for all Creators—but especially those that are underrepresented—to express their personal identity and creative vision for their content.
We also do not feel Twitch should be the judge of Creators’ personal or creative identity, so we typically only enforce against the misuse of tags when it is associated with other behavior that violates our Community Guidelines such as hateful conduct or harassment.
That said, as the VTuber community’s experience demonstrates, there are limitations to this approach and we are actively investigating additional steps we can take to protect and improve the integrity of the tags feature at scale, without infringing on good faith Creators’ personal choice…
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It seems that the Twitch platform has long lost control over some Russian-speaking streamers. I often notice that many of them broadcast full films, most likely from pirate sources, and openly advertise dubious websites related to betting and gambling. Twitch cannot remain indifferent when such violations have become completely normalized, and viewers are forced to put up with pirated content and advertising scams. This behavior undermines trust in the platform and is disrespectful both to creators of original content and honest streamers. It seems very strange that Twitch ignores such blatant violations of platform rules, since Twitch does not earn anything from their advertising—they simply use the platform's resources to promote their scam. Moreover, many of them don't even label that their content contains third-party advertising, as if all those widgets, banners, and advertising links on streams, in the channel description, and in the chat are just there.